Cats on Dimitri Soudas: Why Does He Hate Us?

Fur flew, the claws came out and by the end of it all, a large hairball had been coughed up.

Though it all started innocently enough with a text message, not even a tweet.

"Thatcher has died".

That texting triggered a cascade of embarassing communications which ended with an ailurophobic remark.

Had it not actually happened, one might assume it was a brilliant Monty Python sketch, just as memorable as the dead Norwegian Blue parrot.

But it did and it was reported by the BBC in its characteristic pithy style.