The latest arrivals to Edinburgh Zoo ponder what they are doing behind bars. Are they political prisoners, on a migrant work programme, or diplomats sent to Scotland to help everybody forget China's appalling human rights record?
We offer you our best bits of 2011, featuring Shappi Khorsandi, Misery Bear, Tim Key, President Obama (courtesy of Cassetteboy), our campaign against the funding of cluster bombs, and much more besides.
In the aftermath of Catgate, Joe Wells debunks some of the myths that surround the Human Rights Act, and we are not making this up, learns a lesson from Theresa May MP.