I think this is probably the best intro you’re likely to read all day week:
Fair play to the Daily Mail. This is tabloid, er, catnip. As always, the story itself is a little sadder than the lede, but that’s the kind of sentence you don’t get to write very often. Hats off to Jaya Narain, the hack responsible for this gem.A gay man tried to poison his lesbian neighbours by putting slug pellets into their curry after he was accused of kidnapping their three-legged cat.
[Hat-tip: Mark Steyn who alerts you to another great story,]
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