politicians really should know better…

Labour candidate dropped for offensive remarks on Twitter
A Labour candidate has become the first to be sacked for comments made on the stream-of-consciousness social networking site Twitter, after he was found to have made a series of rants joking about slavery, attacking the elderly and even lambasting Labour MPs.
Stuart MacLennan, who had been standing in [...]

Coon cheese and other delights

I’m a huge fan of the comedian Stephen K Amos, and was lucky enough to catch up with him at the Latitude festival last summer.
One of his jokes recounted his experiences in Australia. Walking down the street, he could hear people shouting out: ‘coon! coon!’ Turns out they weren’t racially abusing him, but using the [...]