WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Tax cheats

Today may be the 25th birthday of the Final Fantasy video game franchise, the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Piltdown Man, and the 120th anniversary of the first performance of The Nutcracker (which, according to Peter Griffin, wrote "a huge cheque those queers on stage refused to cash"). But this doesn't mean that I'm going to go easy on tonight's target, French actor Gerard Depardieu. He is handing back his French passport after Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault criticised him for moving to Belgium to avoid taxes. In a letter to a newspaper he lambasted the French government for punishing "success, creation, and talent". Last week, the 63-year-old actor announced he was moving to the small Belgian town of Nechin just over the French border. While such a move is technically legal, he's still a freeloader. I myself would probably move to a tax haven like Liechtenstein if I was in a similar situation, but I would feel like a jerk for doing so. Those who can afford to contribute more, should contribute more (but obviously no more than what one would consider to be a "fair share").