Kitsch Klassic

I've previously mentioned that wonderful book by Sylvia Gibson, Latawnya the Naughty Horse Learns to Say "No" to Drugs, the publication that is guaranteed to put your child off… horses for ever.

I can only find one copy for sale, at £95, but Laura has located a scanned copy of the whole thing. So if you like surreal, patronising and badly written propaganda featuring dubious 'ethnic' names and pictures of horses smoking and swigging from bottles, off you go. It was written in 1990! What the hell did Gibson think 90s kids were like?

Still, it beats My Friend Flicka.

Good horse sense

Paul Flynn is an honest, hard-working, humorous… MP! He points out that horse-riding kills many more people than cannabis and ecstasy combined: ban it now.