The spirit of Doris Day and Winston Churchill (and the ghosts of failures past & present)

Haribo, Halloween, Ghengis Khan and Ringo Starr (or: The Fab Four ride again…?)

It’s Sunday Soccer with Shakespeare!

Napoleon, Kinky Friedman Edmund Hillary and Lorena Bobbit (or: The Clinton Quartet)

Trojans schmojans: The Vatican has found a real cure for AIDS

Does Obama deserve the Nobel peace prize? Do hookers deserve the Oscar for moaning?

Roman Polanski & Whoopi Goldberg: Cruising the abyss

Bye now… (With thanks to Giuseppe Verdi, Antoni Gaudi, Salman Rushdie and the Guardian’s MbM reader Nial Caldwell)

A better way of building Gordon Brown, Britney and the Hadron Collider

Build your own Eva Longoria, Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johansson

The monstrous truth about Global Warming (Or: Jeremy Clarkson is sooo wrong…!)

The UK government puts its faith in the Loch Ness monster

Spectacular discovery in Holland: Geert Wilders dredged up from the bottom of the North Sea?

From Henry Vlll to Osama bin Laden: In the Oprah school of history everybody’s a victim

Only in England: Where tortoises wear crash helmets and ducks can fill the Royal Albert Hall