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After Grenfell: the rush to be the victims’ conscience

The horror at Grenfell Tower fire dominates the news. The fire shouldn’t happened. After fires at King’s Cross station and Bradford football ground took many lives, prevention became the watchword. A fire … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Madeleine McCann: Mallorca mum has nasty experience with would-be child snatcher

Madeleine McCann: a look at the missing child in the news. With the media full of huge and often terrible stories, Madeleine McCann has been largely absent from the tabloids’ … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: Madeleine McCann, News | Comment

Donald Trump’s police escort looks like a penis

@AynRandPaulRyan tweets: “Here’s a picture of the police escort that Trump got to go golfing (again) this weekend. Do you think they were trying to say something?”

 

 

It’s a fake, of … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Man of the Establishment John McDonnell wants mass protest to bring down the Government

We should like it that John McDonnell speaks his mind. The shadow chancellor wants people to “get out on the streets” in support of Labour, to force Theresa May from office … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Brexit: we’re edging towards Remain by another name

Are we edging towards Remain by another name? Last June, 17.4million people voted in a legal and free election for the country to leave the EU. On twitter, Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) tweeted: … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Kansas inmate freed after dead ringer found 17 years later

Ricky Amos (left) and Richard Jones (right).

 

It wasn’t me. I was someone who looks just like me. It wasn’t Richard Jones, who in 1999 was found guilty … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Daily Express overdoses on aspirin

The Daily Express has big news on aspirin:

 

 

A daily dose of aspirin poses a health risk, says the paper.

Or as it told us earlier:

 

 

Spotter: Liz Gerard  … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2017 | In: Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal look to Liverpool to resolve Alexis Sanchez to Manchester City transfer

Transfer Balls – with Alexis Sanchez Watch: The Arsenal player wants to leave the Gunners. Will he join Manchester City or Bayern Munich? Arsenal should get shot of him, of course. … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Liverpool, Manchester City, News, Sports | Comment

‘I like being ugly’: Anita Pallenberg was rock’s greatest muse

 

Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 June 2017) – was rock music’s greatest muse, writes Rob Baker:

Pallenberg first entered the Rolling Stones’ universe in the mid-Sixties when she sneaked into … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, News | Comment

In 2010 Labour wooed the DUP and lost

Let’s have another look at Labour Party links to those “crackpots” at the pro-British DUP, the Northern Irish party that articulates a sense of discontent and dissatisfaction with Westminster and the … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Free your mind with 12 hours of ambient New York traffic noise

For you New Yorkers away from home, missing the noise and the visible air, help is at hand. Thanks to YouTuber “Cheesy Nirvosa” you can chill out with the sound of … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Daily Express leads with scoopiest scoop of all time

What news from the Daily Express? Well, the investigative team has been in full cry:

 

 

It’s going to be hotter in the summer! Get me an ice-cream – and make it double, … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comment

Labour’s youth voters crave conformity

Today’s Radio 4 chatter about social media connecting with yoof was mind blowing. Replace social media for ‘newspapers’, ‘magazines’, ‘John Lennon’, ‘football’ or ‘TV’ and we were once more being … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Will Katy Perry apologise for having culturally appropriated ‘gay hair’ and robot music?

‘Ich bin ein role model’

 

Katy Perry has issued a public apology for having “culturally appropriated” a black hairstyle.

Whites are not allowed to use black hair styles and … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, News | Comment

Richard Hammond is not dead (he’s on Amazon Prime)

“I thought Richard Hammond had died.” says Jeremy Clarkson on the Daily Star’s cover. No, Clarkson, he’s just not on the telly as much, having moved from the BBC to Amazon … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

The hairy chest one-piece swimsuit exists

Women can turn heads in this Sexy Chest swimsuit.

 

 

Spotter:  JWZ … (read more)

Posted: 12th, June 2017 | In: Fashion, The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Man City’s Joe Hart’s Liverpool limbo

News is that Joe Hart hasn’t received any offers. Oh, come on, someone must have offered the big lunk a job as a clothes line or a figuring in a … (read more)

Posted: 12th, June 2017 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Tabloid review: Boris Johnson is BOJO the healer as Corbyn waits for Number 10 and Theresa hangs on

Is Jeremy Corbyn surging towards Downing Street? Can urban young Remainers get Corbyn, a Eurosceptic for most of his life, to change his ways, scupper Brexit and become Prime Minister? The … (read more)

Posted: 12th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

The DUP take Arlene Foster to a Gay Bar

The DUP rock the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar, gay bar (also: The YMCA and In The Navy):

 

🎶YMCA 🎶 pic.twitter.com/MSTi8oifAU
— AilsaT (@ailsaxtrm) June 10, 2017

🎶Gay Bar 🎶 pic.twitter.com/6CBD3V6DeL
— AilsaT … (read more)

Posted: 12th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

Taking your cannabis plants for a walk in Westminster

 

This is what happens when you take your cannabis plants for a walk on London, a place the weed walker calls new Babylon:

 

 

Spotter: Dank of England … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Why Hunter S. Thompson typed out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms word for word

 

Learning to write is hard. Leaning to write well is a grind. Hunter S. Thompson put in the hard yards, typing out whole pages of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment

The Roger Moore cancer scoop that wasn’t

Sir Roger Moore was a top bloke. The Express has a story on the actor most famous for playing James Bond with such aplomb:

 

 

 

 

A scoop, then. Or not:

 

 

Apart from that it was … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

The fidget spinner butt plug is on sale

The fidget spinner butt plug is now on the market at Etsy. Ranging from $30 to $55, the butt plug fidget spinner is available in three sizes.

Seller GlowFyourself says: “That’s right, help … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: NSFW, The Consumer | Comment

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