For the 16% of the people in the world who have a tattoo, is there some significance to the what it is and where it went? Have you ever been out somewhere, saw a tattoo on a man or a woman's neck, and wondered how they cover it up for a job interview at the local bank? Or how, in 10 or 20 years, they explain why it's there to the kids while telling them that if they ever get a tattoo the...

Paulo Di Canio shows off his tattoo of the Roman Fasces symbol I am glad to see that a new website SwindonTommy has taken up the campaign against Paolo Di Canio’s fascism.

Also featuring purple y-fronts. And children. Inevitable I suppose. Obviously, Russian criminal tattoos are the kind of thing this blog appreciates. So here’s a gazetteer to the real thing.

ALEX Salmond asked organisers of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo to rescue the stricken company which organised the centrepiece event of Scotland's Year of Homecoming, it ha

This cheeky tattoo belongs to Gunnery Sgt. Benjamin Lepping, an explosive ordnance disposal technician currently deployed in Marjah, Afghanistan: Lepping, a technician with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., said he got the tattoo last June while on a routine assignment in Alaska. He and a few colleagues were sent there to clear ordnance from Air Force bombing r...

Carol Ann Duffy, Beckham's tattoo and Lord Ashcroft

So what if Samantha Cameron has voted Labour in the past? When I saw this story flash up on the wires last night, I wondered what the big deal was. But to splash the Mail on Sunday on it? Everyone knows that she is not the stereotypical Tory wife: she has a tattoo on her ankle, she spent her student years shooting pool and hanging out with musicians. Then she married a politician. It happens. But ...

1. An opened top tour bus in Newport. Who'd take an open topped tour in Newport? 2. The plans for a 'space age' train station in Newport for the Ryder Cup in 2010. They'd better get a move on because they've barely started the construction. 3. Someone with a tattoo of the words 'fucker' on his neck. How will you explain that one to your grand kids?

I have been sent this by a Tory blogger John Laity comment: This weekend is the Royal Air Tattoo at Fairford. I live in the MATZ for Fairford and have been watching aircraft arrive at low level all day. It is great as we have a 1000 ft cloud base which means you can waive at the

The Sunday Mercury reports on the death of a football fan: BRITISH soldiers claim a Taliban fighter killed in Afghanistan was found with an Aston Villa tattoo on his body. The unnamed Muslim insurgent lost his life following clashes with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces. Details of forensic investigations on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters are