Craig Lynch, who escaped England’s Suffolk’s Hollesley Bay Prison in September, is using Facebook to brag about his freedom, posting a steady stream of status messages and rude photos to mock the authorities who have been after him for months. On Christmas, a tinsel-clad and shirtless Lynch flicked off the camera with one hand, and in the other, held a freshly cooked turkey. “‘If any of you was doubtin my freedom. Here’s proof. How the f*** could i get my hands on a bird like this in jail. ha ha,” he wrote.

After six years of successfully, improbably preserved anonymity, British sex blogger Belle de Jour has revealed her true identity: she’s Brooke Magnanti, a cancer researcher with a Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology and forensic science. The British media sometimes tends towards alarmism on issues that vaguely smack of sexual morality (see: that one photo of the drunk girl with her underwear around her ankles). How is it taking the news?

News reporters like to catch readers’ attention with a few zingy lines at the start of an article. Sometimes, these so-called “ledes” go horribly wrong. But sometimes, they’re great! In Today’s Best News Ledes, we highlight the cream of the crop: