Protests versus marches versus riots, why Joel is an undercover horse, Ian's Battle for Chicken at Cable Street, and Mazin's rendezvous with Tony Blair in a toilet cubicle

Suitcases full of cobras, yelling at evolution, when you fight with dice, and David Attenborough's things for tadpoles

Hunting dudes vs UFO guys, tasty humans, diplomatic anal probes, and at least nice helicopter shots

Reflections and reminiscences on a year gone by, which scientists were in which 90s bands, levels of unexpectedness, and pig-f*ck*ng

Mark Zuckerburg's alternate business pitch, coming for the lectures but staying for the sandwiches and mental illness, and how to successfully privatise air

Russia Today versus the BBC, the price of not paying for news, behind The Times paywall of trash, and how to be a Sultan's son

What porkies are to furries, the decline of Film Crit Hulk, racist Short Circuit, and the effluvium of the modern world

Jack Frayne-Reid, the irony Bromanovs, taking our shirts off in anger, burning the wrong owls at Bohemian Grove, and how it's protocols all the way down

The unfairly maligned policy of seppuku, the moustache of John Bolton versus the sock of Mitt Romney, the great racism and sexism bake-off, and choosing our desert to go and die in

Whether people are liquids or building blocks, what makes an apocalypse English and twee, and the irrational kinks of Richard Dawkins