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Crystal Palace deny Theresa May rumours

Theresa May’s trip to Buckingham Palace in the wake of the general election seemed to have a few people hopeful and/or confused. Thankfully, Crystal Palace Football Club were on hand … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Sports | Comment

For the unlucky not the few: Michael Lewis narrates the parable of the lucky man and the fought cookie

 

In 2012 Moneyball author Michael Lewis gave addressed Princeton University. He tells the gilded youth arranged before him that they “owe a debt to the unlucky”.
I now live in Berkeley, California. … (read more)

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

Ban the DUP from Government and destroy Brexit

Much weeping and wailing over the Tory Party calling on the DUP to form a coalition government. One commentator described the DUP as the locals from The Dukes of Hazard. But … (read more)

Posted: 10th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians | Comment

Transfer Balls: Alvaro Morata expects Chelsea move, joins Arsenal and agrees to play for Manchester United

Transfer balls: Alvaro Morata has “agreed to join Manchester United” from Real Madrid. The BBC says a fee of “around £60m” has been agreed.

The Guardian says Morata’s agent, Juanma Lopez, has negotiated a … (read more)

Posted: 10th, June 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Julie Wadsworth: paedophile’s crimes become kinky romps

Is it different for women? Husband and wife Tony and Julie Wadsworth have been found guilty of encouraging six boys to take part in sexual activity between 1992 and 1996. The Wadsworths, … (read more)

Posted: 10th, June 2017 | In: News, Tabloids | Comment

Ignacio Echeverria – there went a hero

 

As Anorak forms a new political party – three point plan for success: Hire a Santa Claus look-alike to front the campaign and woo the cool kids with promises of … (read more)

Posted: 10th, June 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Wayne Rooney committed to Manchester United months ago

Transfer balls: Is Wayne Rooney staying at Manchester United? The Daily Mail has a scoop:
Wayne Rooney may decide to see out Manchester United contract which has one year left to … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2017 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Jeremy Corbyn rejoices in losing to a useless Tory leader

Huzzah for Jeremy Corbyn. He lost the General Election for Labour to a Tory leader he thinks so useless she should resign. Theresa May can’t hang on for five years – … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Fabulous playing cards inspired by Karina Eibatova’s bird art

We love a beautiful set of playing cards. This set designed by Karina Eibatova with LUX Cards features her birds and feathers drawings.

 

 

You can buy AVES  here. And … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2017 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment

Piers Morgan’s election breakdown: life moves pretty fast for Corbyn bashers and Trump cheerladers

How was election night for GMTV host and Big Media big beast Piers Morgan?

 

 

 

 

This is what Big Media had to day about Jeremy Corbyn:
Mrs May isn’t just kicking Corbyn when … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

Jeremy Corbyn celebrates by high fiving Emily Thornberry’s breasts

A jubilant Jeremy Corbyn appears to high-five Emily Thornberry’s breast as Labour score biggest slice of the vote in decades. Theresa May’s not the only one who feels like a … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2017 | In: Gifs, Politicians | Comment

GE17: low-key Russian influence in Stoke Newington polling station

To the Tyssen Community Primary School polling station in Stoke Newington, Hackney, London.

(Please excuse the repetition but there’s some kind of echo on our communications devices. Hello, Moscow… Over….) … (read more)

Posted: 8th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Election Day tabloids: Corbyn missing, May mocked and bigots burn Untermensch newspapers

 

It’s “TEZZA v JEZZA” (Daily Star) and the tabloids are going big on the leaders of the country’s two biggest parties.

Which leader’s picture appears most?

 

 

The Daily Star leads with photos … (read more)

Posted: 8th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

Regret the error: the Hampshire Chronicle spots a UKIP ‘c*nty councillor’

The Hampshire Chronicle regrets referring to UKIP’s Martin Lyton as something like a “county councillor” that “looked like a crude remark”:

 

 

Spotter: @dderbyshire

PS – Is the Times’ Caitlin Moran moonlighting on … (read more)

Posted: 8th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comment

Times journalist calls everyone who doesn’t vote Labour a ‘c**t’

Times journalist Caitlin Moran has reportedly tweeted: “Obviously there’s more nuanced take on this, but, broadly, voting Labour = not being a cunt.”

 

 

In November 2016, the Sunday Times interviewed Conservative … (read more)

Posted: 8th, June 2017 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities | Comment

A Tube-style diagram of major Roman roads, ca. 125 AD

This map of Ancient Roman roads (ca. 125 AD) in the Tube / Metro / Subway style is the work of Alexandr Sasha Trubetskoy, an undergraduate economics student at the University … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment

No anti-Semitism in Labour and other myths

Whatever happens in the election and afterwards, someone in Labour has surely got to get a grip of this nauseating shit. pic.twitter.com/Lp22FZbw4G— Jo Green (@jg_ccpress) June 6, 2017

 

Vote now and … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Donald Trump and the cancer charity horror story

 

Occasionally you read something that shocks you. Forbes’ Dan Alexander has a story about Donald Trump’s son Eric and a charity golf event .
The real star of the day is Eric Trump, the president’s … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment

Politicians and students agree that looking is a gateway to crime

Politicians all want to censor the web. CapX writes:
It took us many centuries, a lot of effort and much expended blood and gore to get to this place where we are free – … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians, Reviews, Technology | Comment

GE17: who wants to see Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘money shot’?

As Cuck Norris tweets: “When phrases enter the language and you use them, but you have no idea of their meaning or derivation: a short treatise.” @JeremyCorbyn4PM has treated Twitter users to … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

GE17: Nuanced tabloids leave voters in a dither

It’s the eve of the 2017 General Election and the the papers remain undecided. It’s all very nuanced at the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Sun.

 

 

One tabloid does, however, make … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

This Russian vending machine sells Instagram likes

As Alexey Kovalev writes: “Russia takes the worst excesses of capitalism to the extreme, so here’s a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics.”

How sad … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: Technology | Comment

After London Bridge: geezer Roy Larner told his attackers “F*** you, I’m Millwall”

Looking for London geezers after the London Bridge attack, the media spots Peckham’s Roy Larner, 47, who when confronted with the murderous Islamists told them: “Fuck you, I’m Millwall.”

 

 

Larner decided he needed to … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comments (3)

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