The Perfect Credit Crunch Retreat
CREDIT Crunch Watch: Anorak’s look at credit crunch in the news…
YOURS for $189,000…
With built in wood burning stove, bed, sofa…
Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Photojournalism | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch Watch: Wooden Headstones
CREDIT Crunch Watch: Anorak’s look at credit crunch in the news…
“Grieving families are turning to wooden headstones in a bid to beat the credit crunch” - Lancashire Evening Post”
Thinks of the trees!
Spotter - AGW
Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: fill your boots…
“Shoplifting is at record levels and is set to soar even further thanks to the credit crunch” - Daily Express
Can you shoplift from your own bank?
Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Brown Declares Jihad On Bankers
“BLOODBATH OF THE BANKERS,” screams the Mirror’s front-page screamer.
Gordon Brown is “determined heads must roll”.
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Media, Media Bitch, Tabloids | Comments (20) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Anthea Turner Is Back
ON a brighter note…
Anthea Turner’s husband Grant Bovey loses buy-to-let empire in credit crunch
…Anthea Turner’s back in the Daily Mail…
Anorak Lexicon:
Bovey: An orangey-brown colour.
That meat looks off. It’s gone a horrible bovey colour.
Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities, Credit Crunch, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Too Poor To Die
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: eat the dead…
“BODIES OF THE DEAD NOT BEING BURIED” – Daily Mail
Some are being burnt. Other are being buried at sea. Leglstive bodies walk zombie-like into the night…
Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gabby Logan Applauds The Credit Crunch
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Gabby Logan on the joys of poverty
“But I believe that the credit squeeze is going to be good for grassroots sport and therefore good for all of us in the long run – as long as we do not end up homeless” – Gabby Logan, The Times
So Gabby…:
Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?
Paintings - the most I’ve spent on one was £7,000.
More credit crunch insight as it comes in…
Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Credit Crunch, Money | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: A turnip for the books…
“The humble turnip is helping crash-strapped UK families take the credit crunch out of the credit crisis”- Sun
Ours is a vegetative state…
Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lucy Pinder Beats The Playboy Credit Crunch
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Lucy Pinder saves Playboy…
See Lucy awake and asleep here.
“Daily Star discovery Lucy Pinder is set to save Playboy magazine from going bust,” says the, er, Daily Star.
After that, perhaps she can appear in the Daily Express?
Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Page 3 Girls, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
LILY Allen News Of The Day: Lily’s keys II
Lily Allen managed to keep a Smile on her face after locking herself out of her new North London home – Gordon Smart, The Sun
More Lily Allen news tomorrow…
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Credit Crunch, Lily Allen, Money, Tabloids | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: The Baby Boom And Bust
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: “BED-IT CRUNCH”
BRITAIN is heading for a baby boom as the credit crunch is forcing couples to entertain themselves at home. People have limited cash to splash at pubs and restaurants so are spending more time in the bedroom.
Sales of maternity clothes rose by nearly half last week, says the Sun:
But it’s no free ride:
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Heroin Dealers Make Rasher For It
CREDIT Crunch news of the day:
“SHOPLIFTERS ARE GETTING RASHER – Bacon is stolen to order”.
It’s the CREDIT BRUNCH, reports the Star, albeit missing the pun.
To a boarding house in Burnley, where the breakfast menu is being perused…
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Food & Fat, Money, Tabloids | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kenneth Branagh Does The Credit Crunch
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Kenneth Branagh’s play for today…
The play was an early one and is generally seen as a poor relative of the four classics of Chekhov’s too brief maturity. But it has acquired striking topicality on two counts. First, it deals with debt, and with relationships dominated by economic circumstance. Debtor and creditor are unable to engage in social or emotional transactions without the paralysing effects of unreturned money. This is credit-crunch Chekhov.
A decent ticket for Ivanov at London’s Wyndham theatre costs a credit-crunch busting £32.50, plus £1.50 booking fee…
Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Credit Crunch, Money | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Idiots Guide To The Lehman Brothers
LEHMAN Brothers bank collapses, proof that capitalism works and you’re never to big to go under.
Big news, then. But the red-tops have a problem: they need to make their readers understand what Lehman Brothers was. They do this by finding an easy point of reference and talking down to them in words of one syllable or fewer.
THE SUN (front page): “CRASH – BANG – WALLOP”
Jobs have been lost. Lehman’s hasn’t half a sixpence to its name. But what does it man? Well:
“Manchester Utd sponsor AIG could be next.”
That’s right. Man United fans might be forced to buy a new shirt. And with the season but a few weeks old. For shame!
Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Too Fairy Cuts Costs And Death By Crunch
CREDIT Crunch news of the day:
“Tooth fairy gives less during credit crunch”
The credit crisis has claimed its latest victim - the tooth fairy – Daily Telegraph
The average amount left under a pillow for a tooth has dropped from £1.22 to 87p in the past six months, according to research. Says one fairy: “It’s the transport costs.”
“CREDIT CRUNCH IS KILLING US”
Posted: 8th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Amy Winehouse Does The Credit Crunch: Heroin Better Than Whiskey
AMY Winehouse is beating the credit Crunch by buying 48 bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey.
The Sun says organisers of the Bestival were “Stunned” that Amy ordered two cases of the beverage.
Bestival is, we learn, staged on the Isle of White, and the fear is surely that with oil prices surging, the ferry company or airline transporting Winehouse will go bust and Amy will be trapped forever on the rock.
The Sun solicits “a source” to say: “Whiskey is better than heroin – but not 48 bottles of the stuff.”
Indeed, Old Mr Anorak assures us that heroin beats whiskey hands down. Given the option of 48 bottles of imported booze or a bag of good quality British smack, Sun readers can now make more informed choice.
Posted: 5th, September 2008 | In: Amy Winehouse, Celebrities, Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Cambodian Rats Bite Back
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Rat meat in demand as inflation bites.
The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
Posted: 4th, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch: Cats And Dogs Are Cheap Protein
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Credit Grrrunch:
“Hard–up owner put their pets to sleep to save cash”
In the oven, on 220 degrees C or gas mark 4. You reared your dog, and you need the cheap protein…
Sick cat and dogs are being put down because their credit crunch-hit owners cannot afford the vets’ bills, a survey has found.
Grim news for pets. But not everyone’s a loser:
Posted: 4th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Credit Crunch Watch: Picking A Blackberry To Order
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Blackberry picking:
Experts are warning that the traditional pastime of blackberry picking is a dying art, even though the current economic climate makes it the perfect time to plunder nature’s bountiful store cupboard.
CREDIT Crunch Watch: Anorak’s look at credit crunch in the news…
Posted: 3rd, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money, Tabloids | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Earth Moves For British Economy
FEEL that seismic shift? That was the British economy coming to a halt.
INDEPENDENT: “British economy grinds to halt.”
FT: “British economy shudders to a halt”.
TELEGRAPH: British economy “shudders to a halt”.
Did you feel it? Did the Earth move for you..?
Posted: 24th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Credit Crunch, Money, Photojournalism | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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