Not Ready to Make Nice
US Politics: 'Not Ready To Make Nice' - the price of free speech was a high one for the Dixie Chicks, struggling to continue recording after liberal comments alienated their conservative fanbase...
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UK politics - Nick Clegg, Love... and the Lib Dems
UK Politics: If you have a crush on UK Lib Dem politician Nick Clegg, the best way to seduce them is clearly to do some fundraising, send them a picture of your boob and stalk them at Glastonbury...
Restorative justice
Activism: We look around and see our world becoming just a bit... Stabby. Crimey. Whatever stats say, that's where public feeling lies. But restorative justice has been proved to reduce criminals re-offending by getting the criminal and victim face-to-face...
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Politicians, pirates, monkeys and Clause 28
Politics: When it comes to the abolishment of Clause 28 - hurrah! - and the eternal lies of politicians - boo! then sometimes the only thing you can do is to explain, in very nice and precise detail, exactly why it would be better to vote for pirates or monkeys. Or a monkey dressed as a pirate.
Read this or explode into magnetic shards
Frankencolumn: Mookychick brings you the latest news. The truest news. The most important news. Mookychick brings you the only news that counts.
Read this article: Probably the most important news in the world
How to exercise your right not to vote
Politics: Voting is your duty and your right. And it's easy. Really easy. The hard part can be deciding who to vote for. If you decide not to vote, Debs explains how you can at least do it as a political statement...
What's left is right.
When people talk politics, they use overly complicated words to confuse their opponent into agreeing with them. It's called cant, though Miss Deborah Taylor believes that's a vowel or so away from the truth. This week, our Lady of Debs explains what goes on behind the terms 'left wing' and 'right wing'.
Real, clear politics for 'beginners' or 'experts'
Politics are important again. We're five years into a war we were told was won three years ago. Then there's all the problems with the Third World. All that genocide. So, yeah, there's a fair bit of politics around... Debs Taylor's gets chewy about politics in her newly-resurrected Frankencolumn.
Death is all around us
Frankencolumn: 
Death, as Grandpa Simpson once said is all around us. And just recently our FrankenDebs has had to agree as it's been quite prominent in her mind recently - for two linked, yet diverse reasons...
The Hollywood writers' strike and 'the write stuff'
As the Writers Guild of America are currently on strike, will they be able to write anything on their placards without being accused of being a scab? These and other even more important questions are addressed in the Frankencolumn.
Becoming vegan
Vegetarianism is a great lifestyle choice, but then you start thinking about what cow-milk does to you - and what happens to the cows once they've stopped producing it. Mooky Debs makes her first journey into the Land of Vegan... Wai Kikka Mu Kow!
Gadgets and Consumerism
iPods, mobile phones, iBooks, bluetooth, Mac Minis... According to the Government (and who would ever doubt them) the reason street crime is up is because we all carry round such fantastic toys that the muggers just can't but help beat our brains out. It's all our fault, for parading our wealth and taste so flamboyantly. There was never this much crime when there was nothing to steal. So the gadget must be to blame, says Debs Taylor...
DIY Ethic vs. Big Brother - Why Don't You...?
Summer's brainwashed everyone into zombies who worship Big Brother and the football's World Cup. Is there any way to keep what brain cells you have left?
Call the Perspective Police
Never mind the fashion police... just like puffball skirts they've had their day. Check out the newest justice force on the block!
Make poverty history... with chocolate
We liked him when he was strong and angry, but now Geldof is just a shouty non-musician who forgot to invite the black musicians to Live8. In her new Frankencolumn, Deborah Taylor explains how we can get rid of him AND eat chocolate.
DANNY WALLACE AND THE LOVELY COUNTRY
King Danny Wallace is a perfectly nice man who starts joky, ironic cults... that have a knack of getting cushy TV and book deals. So is he as lovely as the cyber-country he's just spawned and named? Or is there actually a despotic weirdo lurking beneath the jolly surface?
IT'S HIP TO BE SQUARE
If chocolate can't improve your life, it may be time to turn to alcohol. But there's a hip way to go about these things.
KATE MOSS, COCAINE AND SHEEP
Deborah Taylor considers a deathmatch between Kate Moss and a large woolly sheep and tells you who she thinks will win.
JAVA TIME
Debs Taylor loves coffee. She adores coffee. She thinks it is perhaps the world's greatest invention. But she can't, currently, drink it.
