Bravo, madam/sir. A hogshead of kudos to you.

In other circumstances, I could see this being insensitive or ill-considered, for sure. But here, where it's a project from within the Jewish Museum, organised and implemented by Jews, I think it's pretty neat. After all, who better to answer your questions about Judaism than a Jewish person? Speaking as someone who…

Omg, don't get me started on Austria. My half-Thai friend went there on a ski trip and got stared at and followed by some skinhead types.

Oh, for goodness sake. This is a museum volunteer answering visitors' questions. The Daily Mail describing it as sitting "in a glass cage for hours" as though this chap is being forced to do something against his will is just ridiculous. The "Jew in a box" is a peculiar conceit and I can see how it might be taken the…

Lifestyle porn, primarily. And for a UK viewer it has the extra comedy value of presenting our most extreme caricature of what Americans are like - every cast member perceives every happening exclusively through the prism of how it makes them feel. Their preoccupation with their own psyche is absolutely hysterical.

Though I don't doubt that something like the incident as described in the article could happen, I do wonder if there's something more to this story. I say this as someone who was once in a class with a very weird substitute teacher who made borderline creepy 'educational' comments about human reproduction...

Has Pope Francis done this? IIRC he hasn't been accused of anything similar. Nor have the vast majority of the cardinals, with a minority (still far too large, of course) being found to be complicit in cover-ups. There is reason to believe that Benedict and several other high-ranking officials acted with moral…

Agreed. I don't expect miracles (ha!) from the Church regarding gay rights/abortion etc. and I would be perfectly satisfied (not that I'm Catholic anyway) with a pope who just didn't mention these issues at all. If he focuses on helping people in need and keeps his thoughts to himself regarding gays, abortions,…

While I am perfectly aware of the fact that Lindy is not accusing all Catholics of being anything bad, I still find 'fuck the Pope' to be in bad taste. He is recognised as the head of the Catholic Church by its adherents and so showing this kind of extreme disrespect to him (note I say disrespect, of the incivility…

I don't see how. The kind of light swat the majority of parents give their kid you'd have a hell of a job making a legal case around if it was between adults. A punch in the face, sure. But you'd be hard pressed to get the cops to give a shit if someone gave your leg a brief, single slap. Whereas if you, say,…

Not really to wade into the debate, as I'm not a fierce advocate either way - I was slapped on the rear a couple of times as a kid (not some kind of organised spanking, which isn't really a thing in the UK as far as I know, just an impromptu swat in response to some outstanding act of reckless misbehaviour) and don't…

Went to visit my cousin in Scotland and I can confirm that in their smallish town this is still a thing. They had the pram outside the front door while my baby cousin slept in it and everyone went about their normal business inside. I was a bit surprised, and then my mum said that she used to do the same with me…

Although I admit you'd need nerves of steel to entrust your sprog to the strength of a rather flimsy-looking cage suspended in mid-air, essentially this is nothing more than a baby-proofed balcony and actually a pretty good idea (not sure how health-infusing the air of a cramped city tenement would be, but probably…

Could it be this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians

Makes me queasy just looking at them. If you weren't mentally ill already, pretty sure this would put you over the edge...

In a lot of European countries where there is no longer officially an aristocracy, many of the ex-noble families can keep their titles, they just no longer have any actual powers associated with them. Some of them do it for personal pride, others do it to swan around Monaco and the riviera being minor celebrities for…

To see people in football shirts and denim jackets burning a "witch" is just so horribly incongruous. This superstitious barbarism should have died out when we were walking the earth in loincloths, it's horrific that it continues to exist in place all over the world.

"CELEBRITY, SEX, FASHION FOR WOMEN"

I just read Ham in a Sherri Shepherd voice and assumed that was what we were meant to do... there were acronyms??

When I was a (weird) kid, my grandad used to let me pinch books from the changing room at his lawn bowls club, and I'd always pick these very lurid 1970s Westerns pulp novels. Absolutely loved them - I could recite the spiel on the inside cover by heart (:"From Texas to Montana, the Old West knew a breed of men that…