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Six-year-old boy calls police on dad who raced a red light (audio)

 

No-one likes a grass. But no-one told 6-year-old Robbie Richardson from Quincy, Massachusetts.

When young Robbie saw his dad drive through a red light on their journey home, he vowed to … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, June 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Married man hero Paula Broadwell wants the word ‘mistress’ banned

 

Language changes. New words arrive and old words go out of fashion. Some people can’t wait. They want words banned. They want less words. In the Guardian Jessica Valenti writes on … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, June 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

How to burn a carjacker to death and get away with it

How do you fend off carjackers? On YouTube, we find an answer:
When this foot switch is pressed, two things happen. One, a 14-thousand volt spark would appear here in this … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, June 2016 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment

Grandpa picks up wrong child from school who picked out wrong grandpa

Joseph Fuller, 65, picked up the wrong child went he meant to collect his grandson from Edisto Primary School in South Carolina on May 19.

 

 

He was not alone in this case … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, June 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Ilkay Gundogan agrees Manchester City move (Arsenal and Manchester United disagree)

Transfer balls: Manchester City and not Manchester United are “set to sign” Ilkay Gundogan, says the Times. New Man City manager Pepe Guardiola has learnt much from his time at Germany’s … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, June 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Manchester City, Sports, Tabloids | Comment (1)

EU commissioner Vera Jourova censors free speech

One more reason to vote to leave the European Union arrives. “The internet is a place for free speech, not hate speech,” says Vera Jourova, the EU commissioner responsible for justice, consumers … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, June 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Chelsea and Man United in race to stop Arsenal getting Morata (again)

Transfer balls – a look at iffy reporting in the mainstream media. News is that Arsenal are still after Alvaro Morata.

The Mirror says “Arsenal and Chelsea could go head to … (read more)

Posted: 1st, June 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Liam Fee murder: evil lesbian killer monsters are just like men

Rachel Telfa, 31, and Nayomi Fee, 29, murdered their two-year-old son, Liam Fee, by beating him to death in March 2014. The couple were in a civil partnership. Telfa was … (read more)

Posted: 1st, June 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment (1)

Liverpool: lying police charge man in Hillsborough T-shirt with public order offence

They hated and criminalised football fans when 96 innocent Liverpool fans died at Hillsborough in 1989. They hate and criminalise football fans now, idiots included.
A 50-year-old man has been charged with … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2016 | In: Liverpool, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Top Gear: Chris Evans’ debut by numbers

Facts about the new series of Top Gear are coming thick and thicker. The show’s resident ringmaster, DJ Chris Evans – doesn’t it all look a lot like when Top … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment

Harambe the gorilla named in child abuse allegations

 

More news on Harambe, the gorilla at Cincinnati zoo who died for our sins. The Mirror leads with a statement punctuated to look like a question: “Proof the gorilla was trying to protect … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Manchester United footballer and the not secret ‘secret baby’

The Daily Star leads with news of a Manchester United “Star Love Rat’s Secret Baby”. The star love rat is Marcos Rojo, whose secret baby is being carried by his, … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2016 | In: manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Higuain Watch: striker demands Chelsea, wants Liverpool, shuns Manchester United, signs for Arsenal, moves nowhere

Transfer balls: every summer a familiar platoon of players feature in tabloid stories telling of their imminent moves to the Premier League. One of that number is Gonzalo Higuain, who, as you will … (read more)

Posted: 30th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Johnny Depp silences bathtub rumours

 

Johnny Depp says  – yes! – he did buy a £5,000 bathtub from Stiffkey Bathrooms, in Upper St Giles Street, Norwich, in 2014. Depp took the 1880 French Bateau bath on ornate feet … (read more)

Posted: 30th, May 2016 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Liverpool balls: Nathaniel Clyne didn’t say England’s defence is a ‘major weakness’

 

DID Liverpool’s Nathaniel Clyne “admit” that England’s defence, in which he plays, is a “weakness”? The Mirror says he did, thundering: “Clyne admits ‘defence is a weakness”.

John Cross begins his … (read more)

Posted: 30th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United, Ronaldo and the vanishing facts

Transfer balls: Is Cristiano Ronaldo, hero of Real Madrid, scorer of the decisive penalty as Real won their 11th European Cup, heading to Manchester United to play in the Europa … (read more)

Posted: 29th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United go hot and cold on Ibrahimovic

Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his way to Manchester United? The Swedish striker, who says age is just a number, turns 35 in October. Why would United want the ponderous player when … (read more)

Posted: 29th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Jamie Vardy and ‘brassy’ Becky are no classy Charles and Camilla: a Daily Mail hatchet job

Compare and contrast the Daily Mail’s reporting on Becky Nicholson’s wedding to Leicester City and England footballer Jamie Vardy and Camilla Parker Bowles marriage to Prince Charles.

Alison Boschoff and Andy … (read more)

Posted: 29th, May 2016 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews, Royal Family, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal spend, Ozil keeps cool, newspapers agitate

Transfer balls: a look at reporting on Mesut Ozil, Arsenal’s German star.

In the Times, Matt Hughes says with two years remaining on his current deal, Ozil “is unwilling to discuss … (read more)

Posted: 29th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Broadsheets, Sports | Comment

Now Watch: Daily Express recycles EU kettle news

 

Long ago, we kept up a feature called Now Watch, a look at instances of “NOIW” in front-page news headlines. Today we revisit the meme with a look at the Daily … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Open drug use at Groucho club: no queue for toilets

Hey, celebs, you need a new, more exclusive drug:
Drugs furore at the Groucho Club over ‘bankers’ cocaine binges’: Veteran members pen letter to management over ‘open drug use taking place on … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester United: Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea image rights in detail

In March 2005 Chelsea secured the legal rights to Jose Mourinho’s trademark for 20 years. This means that should Manchester United hire Mourinho, a move that seems as certain as … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Chelsea, manchester united, Money, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Butcher promises: ‘Eating bacon reduces your chance of being a suicide bomber by 100%’

 

To New South Wales, Australia, where butcher Jeff Rapley from Naroomais talking about the sign in his shop window that promises, “Eating two strips of Rapley’s award-winning bacon for breakfast reduces your chance … (read more)

Posted: 25th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

A free Kim Kardashain sex tape for every Guardian reader

When Harriet Harman, the Labour former deputy leader, told us Kim Kardashian’s naked breasts and pouting buttocks possessed “a kind of bravery and pioneering spirit” and that Page 3 Girls with their … (read more)

Posted: 25th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

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