Animal welfareEvery year, hundreds of thousands of pets are snatched in Thailand, then smuggled into Vietnam, destined for Hanoi's top restaurants and street stalls. Demand for dogmeat is so high that supply has become a highly lucrative – and brutal – black marketNguyen Tien Tung is just the sort of man you'd expect to run a Hanoi slaughterhouse: wiry, frenetic and filthy, his white T-shirt collaged with bloodstains, his jean shorts loose around taut, scratched-up legs, his feet squelching in plastic sandals.

TheatreInterview‘I do like a shock’: Martin McDonagh on why casting Lily Allen in The Pillowman makes it even more electrifyingClaire ArmitsteadHis 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing Iraq had just been invaded and MySpace had just launched, ushering in a new era of hyperlinked horror. That was the world in 2003, when Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman premiered at the National Theatre in London.

TheatreReviewHampstead theatre, London The American playwright edges away from his usual bilious comic antagonism with this drama about romantic crises Neil LaBute’s new play uses the same set of characters as Reasons to Be Pretty, seen at the Almeida in 2011. That offered a scathing indictment of the American obsession with physical perfection, while this piece is more concerned with the minor crises of romantic entanglement. While it’s perfectly pleasant, it lacks the thematic cohesion of its predecessor.

Boss cat … Viv Groskop's pet, Julian.Boss cat … Viv Groskop's pet, Julian.The pet I'll never forgetLife and styleWe can only speculate about what our ginger and white moggy gets up to away from home. But crime and violence are clearly involved I grew up around different kinds of domestic cat. My grandparents had a cat. My parents had three. My sister has had seven cats over the years. So I thought I was pretty familiar with their behaviour parameters.

Vivienne Westwood drives a tank to David Cameron’s home in an anti-fracking protest GuardianFracking This article is more than 8 years oldVivienne Westwood drives tank to Cameron's home in fracking protestThis article is more than 8 years oldDesigner drives military vehicle through Witney to Chadlington, Oxfordshire, to carry out fake ‘chemical attack’ Used to sticking two fingers up at the establishment, Vivienne Westwood has driven a tank to David Cameron’s constituency home in a protest against fracking.