Michael Jackson Dominates The News
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: a challenge for British newspapers to top the Boston Herald’s front-page headline and cover -”FADE TO BLACKO”.
The death of Michael Jackson is front-page news on every British newspaper.
What with Iran, Andy Murray, Farrah Fawcett, Our Maddie, MPs’ expenses and Big Brother, thanks to the internet, you can follow it all…
Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
RIHANNA’S lover Chris Brown has been sent to mingle with the Celebrity Police Force for six months, and the good people at Michele Marie PR notice something about Rihanna. No, not the bruises and the discomfort but the gems:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rihanna’s Court Style
LOS ANGELES - June 22, 2009 - While attending the Chris Brown preliminary hearing, Rihanna wore a vintage [redacted] yellow gold and diamond bracelet watch (Retail price, $8,500) and vintage [redacted] 18 karat yellow gold, ruby and diamond earrings (Retail price, $13,000), both from [redacted].
Gawker’s Cajun Boy spares the client any shame by redacting the press release in the manner of a House of Commons goon. Anorak wonders why she didn’t defend herself with it when Brown attacked. Wonder Woman, she ain’t.
Posted: 23rd, June 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
MPs Expenses Protected By Anti-Terrorist Leglislation
MPs Expenses have kept journalists blogging as we begin to see- or, rather not to see - what they have been up to.
Meanwhile, MPs are holding meetings about how they should look when they are spotted by the TV cameras and lobby hacks - contrite, smug, aloof, springy, sweaty, tanned..?
Matt Buck surveys the scene and finds his camera and pictures seized by police under anti-terrorism legislation. But we can bring you pictures from his live cam…
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann And Raymond Hewlett’s White Van
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett’s white van and James Bone Damman, and more jokes…
Daily Mirror: “MADDY’S MAN LIE - Paedo’s story falling apart”
Raymond Hewlett faces more questioning over missing Madeleine McCann
While all other papers lads with news of the “black out” of MPs expenses, the Labour Party-supporting Daily Mirror leads with news of Raymond Hewlett and Madeleine McCann. Such is the papers desire for, er, justice.
Pervert Raymond Hewlett’s lies were unravelling last night as he faced renewed questioning over missing Madeleine McCann.
What lies? Can the Mirror prove Hewlett has lied? What say the paper’s lawyers?
The convicted paedophile rekindled suspicion after it was revealed he tried to mislead detectives over the vehicle he was driving at the time the youngster vanished.
Which detectives – private or the police?
He claimed he only had one motor – a blue Dodge truck. And he said it was so distinctive that he could not have driven into Praia da Luz in May 2007 without being spotted. But now a former friend has dramatically come forward to say Hewlett was lying.
He actually owned a white Mercedes van at the time – similar to one seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment before Madeleine disappeared.
What white Mercedes seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment “before” Madeleine disappeared? And how soon before was it spotted there? The Mirror does not are to say.
As Sky news told us:
“One report suggests he was sitting in a small, white van. Police have got a good description of the man: about 5ft 8in tall, between 30 and 35, not Portuguese according to one of the witnesses, wearing a blue jacket and white trousers.”
The Telegraph added:
Mr Flack, a freelance engineer designer from Ilford in Essex, has a holiday home in Praia da Luz, near the McCann’s family’s apartment at the Ocean Club resort.
On either May 2 or 3 last year – the day Madeleine disappeared – he saw a man standing near a dirty white van, staring intently at the couple’s ground floor veranda.
He said he noticed that the man – aged between 25 and 35, tanned, medium height, with thick dark hair and fringe - was behaving oddly.
So back to 30-ish Hewlett, lionine-haired Hewlett and the white van…
Ex-Scots Guard Peter Verran, 46, decided to contact the Maddy inquiry team after being disturbed by Hewlett’s claims in our sister paper, the Sunday Mirror.
Mr Verran, who befriended Hewlett on a campsite in Morocco in June 2007, said: “He told me he owned a white Transit-type van before his blue Dodge truck. He said he’d swapped it for the Dodge in order to leave Portugal and travel to Morocco.
“The white van didn’t have enough room for the whole family, so he sold it to a pal who traded on the same market as him in Fuzeta, about 40 miles from Praia da Luz.”
The white van…
According to Mr Verran, Hewlett also said that he had driven from Portugal’s Algarve to Spain in the Mercedes van around the time Madeleine vanished. But Hewlett, who was living near Praia da Luz, insisted recently that he only had the Dodge truck.
So he had a rare white van, maybe. Does this mean Hewlett’s “lies are unravelling” as the Mirror stats?
A source close to the Maddy inquiry team said yesterday: “This new information could be very significant. Hewlett has repeatedly said that he could not have been at the scene without someone remembering his distinctive truck. But if he was driving a Mercedes van at the time, his reasoning is shot to pieces.”
So the detectives will now be able to try and track down this van, right? And get some evidence firstly of a crime having been committed and secondly of a suspect. In the meanwhile, it’s all speculation.
Meanwhile, in othe news, too many of our politicans are lying, cheating, grasping scumbags - something the Mirror missed…
Update - Times:
The FBI last night squelched the claim by a Michigan man that he was the victim of an infamous child abduction on New York’s Long Island more than half a century ago.
The FBI said that DNA tests proved that John Barnes was not Steven Damman, the two-year-old child snatched outside a grocery shop on the afternoon of Hallowe’en 1955 while he waited with his little sister Pamela for their mother buy a loaf of bread…
Steven Damman’s disappearance was the Madeleine McCann case of its day, sparking front-page headlines and a nationwide search for the missing boy.
Sometimes these things never end…
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (25) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bid For Peter Viggers’ Duck House Second Home
TORY MP for Gosport Sir Peter Viggers, 71, is selling his duck house for charity. Mr Viggers will from now on put his guests up in a caravan or ‘otel.
This is the duck house he paid for, after a request for us to pay for it failed -Vickers claimed £1,645 on expenses for the5 ft Stockholm duck house. Now you can own it.
Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
RICHARD North looks past the bombast and the hype surrounding the BNP’s electoral gains and sees that the best way to sideline the BNP is to elect their leader Nick Griffin to a remote political outpost in a foreign field:
“THE British National Party achieved its most significant electoral breakthrough last night when it won two seats in the European Parliament.”
That is the view of the august London Times - a value judgement rather than a straight reporting of fact. What, after all, does “significant” mean?
Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kirsti Allsop Sticks It Up Channel 4
PERIOD featured telly property show presenter Kirstie Allsop has discovered Twitter and hopes that it will keep her career alive during the housing slump.
As Anorak has long said – you know the housing market is shafted when Allsop’s Location Location Location dies; you know TV is shafted when it carries on regardless.
Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Andy Murray Knocked Out By Susan Boyle
SUSAN Boyle Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Susan Boyle in the news - Susan Boyle knocks Andy Murray, MPs expenses and Boris Johnson thinks…
New Boyles Please!
It will not end with a trip to The Priory, but Andy Murray became the latest well-fancied Scottish export to suffer a very public meltdown when the pressure was on.
For Murray, the world No 3, his Susan Boyle moment came at the end of the second set of his French Open quarter-final against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile and continued until the first game of the fourth - Martin Samuel, Daily Mail
Posted: 3rd, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Susan Boyle Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nominative Determinism: Mike Clasper
NOMINATIVE Determinism – The chairman of Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is called Mike Clasper.
Can he grapple with MPs expenses?
Send your nominative determinism spots to The Forums...
Posted: 2nd, June 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fit For Office: MPs Compete In Reality TV Show
NONCHO Vodenicharov, 53, a contestant on the Survivor reality TV shows has died during filming.
To add another layer of intrigue, Mr Vodenicharov was the mayor of Radnevo, a town, in the south of Bulgaria.
Posted: 2nd, June 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Frank Cook Doesn’t Kill People
LABOUR MP Frank Cook claimed back a £5 church donation at a Battle of Britain memorial service.
Posted: 31st, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Detroit Democrats Catch Swine Fever
SWINE Fever - MPs expenses - is being exported from the UK to Detroit, buccolic city of green wonders. I Hate The Media has this news on JoAnn Watson’s amazingly low property tax bill:
The Detroit Free Press reports that a member of the city council pays just $68 in annual property taxes on her Tudor style home, although neighbors in comparable homes pay $2000-6000.
Posted: 30th, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Rosie Winterton Soundproof’s Prescott’s Biscuit Tin
ROSIE Winterton MP, the pensions minister, claimed £4,690 for “soundproofing of bedroom wall and redecoration to bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen, staircase” – a claim reduced to £3,800 by the fees office, reports the Telegraph.
Posted: 29th, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tory MP John Greenway Claims For Mulled Wine And Pot Plants
NEWS of Tory MP John Greenway who, the Telegraph reports, claimed £500 for plants and £1,900 for redecorating his second home.
And that’s the second home he sold for a £280,000 profit, alleges the paper.
Posted: 27th, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
HAVING failed in its opportunistic and failed campaign to get Baby P’s social workers sacked, the Sun brings readers a new campaign:
Sign our petition calling for increased sentences for the abusers of little Baby Peter.
The Sun is determined to make the Baby P story its own. Having missed out on the MPs’ expenses – rumours are that the paper turned down the chance to get the documents first, allowing the Telegraph to score the scoop – and allowed the Mirror to steal a march with its coverage of Our Maddie – the soaraway Sun is staking its claim to Baby P.
Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Media Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Wikipedia Horror Printed On Toilet Paper
TO a Wikipedia toilet cubicle in Japan, where a reader is studying Koji Suzuki’s latest, er, slasher book “Drop,” a story on toilet paper. It’s a follow up to his book “Ring”.
Mr Suzuki is working on a theme.
His latest story is of an evil spirit that inhabits a toilet bowl.
Posted: 25th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alistair Darling On Finding A Good Tax-Avoidance Accountant
GOOD old Chancellor Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequor, for supporting the accountancy industry by paying an accountant public money to complete his tax return.
MPs then - possibly - asked the same accountants about capital gains tax, if a porn film is tool of the trade and to explain tax loop holes.
Chancellor Alistair Darling is among nine Cabinet Ministers who paid accountants public money to complete their tax returns, it has been reported.
Posted: 25th, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Exclusive: New Witness To MPs Expenses Claims Tells All
MORE on the MPs’ expenses claim scandal as
Posted: 24th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Andrew MacKay Stands Down, Julie Kirkbride Next?
ANDREW MacKay - Mr Julie Kirkbride MP - will stand down at the next election. Says he:
“Following a conversation with David Cameron this morning I have decided to step down as candidate for Bracknell at the next general election.
“I believe I could be a distraction at a time when he is working to get elected as prime minister with the good working majority necessary to take the tough decisions to turn this country around.
I hope my decision to step down goes some way to showing my constituents how sorry I am about my own situation
“I would never forgive myself if my candidature distracted voters from the key issues and particularly David’s rousing call for change.”
Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (16) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Swine Fever: Andrew MacKay’s Clapometer
ANDREW MacKay - swine fever victim - hears the clapometer. No vote just a big clap.
Are you for MacKay - a Dale Winton/ Simon Cadell hybrid - or against him?
Problem is that the clap on the back and the clap of thunder sound not enough unlike a clap of the hands, or the hands being rubbed together in the manner of a gloveless Fagin sat atop an Alpine peak.
The technology is not perfect and we advise people to clap Mr MacKay very slowly until such a time Mr MacKay claps a hand to his wallet or his sword…
Other ways of voting:
Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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