Good day for God as Yorkshire Ripper shifts blame onto Satan

A quick look at the Sun's website shows they're unhappy because Peter Sutcliffe, AKA the Yorkshire Ripper, is saying he's now "better" and could be released in the next eight years. But the real winner has to be God, who can sit back and watch arch-nemesis Satan take the blame. The Ripper famously claimed it was God who told him to embark on his gruesome killing spree, but after 27 years of reflection he's now pointing the finger at the Devil.

Fortunate, then, that Sutcliffe's in jail, as it seems unlikely his accomplice will ever be brought to justice.

Lott on Lut

From the most recent issue of Granta Magazine (putting all their new money to good use with a snazzy redesign and new website) Tim Lott writes brilliantly about the murder of a friend - a grim tale about the toxic mix of sadomasochism, shame, religion and loneliness.
[Lot makes a passing reference towards the end to the fact that he gave up being a newspaper columnist. I, for one, am very glad of that as I didn't like him as a columnist, whereas he is a very good writer of these kind of long-form reflections]