Har Mar Super-sad Star: Zanzibar's Gay Hell: Italy's Lame Stallions: Sommes: Part 2: Chinese Takeaway Ben Zephaniah

"Sometimes I'd look around when I was out and I'd realise that everyone had just bonded over some drug. That whole existence, especially the drugs, is very, very sad. I realised that when half your friends are people you know nothing about, it's time to go home." (NME)

Har Mar Superstar reveals he was 'super-lonely' during his height of his success last year.



"This is what we have been aspiring for. If the government takes such steps, the country will really move ahead." (The Guardian)

Zanzibar Islamic leader Sheikh Muhammed Said welcomes new laws making gay men liable to 25 years in jail.



"In Italy, many men feel they almost have a duty to woo beautiful women. The men worry that otherwise they will seem asexual or homosexual." (Sunday Times)

Sexual fidelity detective (Ms) Miriam Tomponzi says Italian culture forces men to try and pull every woman they can.



"It is essential festival goers bring sufficient changes of clothes, wet weather gear and camping gear to stay dry."

Reading Festival organisers warn that Glastonbury mud bath conditions at a near certainty for this weekend's event.



"I don't dare dance in London because half the audience want to interview me. And when I walk the streets in England there is that thing about being black. Here, I'm strange but in a different way. People don't want to arrest me, they want to sleep with me." (Guardian)

British black poet Benjamin Zephaniah reveals he loves clubbing in China.


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