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Mamma Mia! Nancy Dell’Olio Shows Us Sven Goran Eriksson

IT was at last summer’s World Cup that England fans realised Sven Goran Eriksson had sold them a dummy.

Distracted by Nancy Dell’Olio, tales of secretary keepie-uppy in the Football Association’s … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Back pages | Comment

Madeleine McCann, Robert Murat And PC Porn

MADELEINE McCann is missing. Still missing. And news. It is that Robert Murat used his computer for something more than looking up property prices and football results on the web.

As … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (107)

We’re All Madeleine McCann Now

“I’M selling my toys to help,” says the Express of “little Lauren Wynn”.

Pictured looking miserable by a pile of toys, blonde Lauren is raising money to help find missing Madeleine … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (11)

Gordon Brown Taxes Us £6.60 An Hour

FOR every hour that you worked last year, £6.60 (on average) was collected in taxes by the Treasury. This is more than even the minimum wage.

These figures, calculated by the … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Innocent Warren Blackwell Charged For Prison Bed And Board

THERE are plenty of things you’d expect to have after three years wrongful imprisonment – an overpowering sense of injustice, a class A drug addiction and maybe a predilection for … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

David Beckham’s £50million McClaren’s England Appeal

WHILE England boss Steve McClaren fumbles around for a saviour, David Beckham’s already ballooning bank account could swell to the tune of an extra £50million. (Pic: The Spine)

Beckham will cash … (read more)

Posted: 28th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Glazers Deny United Sale

A SPOKESMAN for Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has moved to refute a story in the Mirror which claims the American billionaire is set to sell the club after profits … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Elderly Face Home Care Hike

WITHOUT home care many of the nation’s elderly wouldn’t be able to live relatively independent lives, but with councils planning to raise fees – in many cases by more than … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Gurkha Tul Bahadur Pun: Payback Time

Gurkha Tul Bahadur Pun, now aged 84 and suffering a variety of conditions which require daily medication – not always available in Nepal – has applied to come and live … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)

Smoking Ban And Grease

SMOKING is not cool and it is not clever. But it can look that way:
WHEN the musical Grease opens in London’s West End this summer, and the teenage sweetheart Sandy … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Government Plans For Email Tax

A TAX on the Internet. Over in America:
State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

National Space Agency Awards Sqyres For That Nazi Wernher von Braun

THE National Space Society gives its Wernher von Braun award. Glenn Reynolds takes a look at the goings on. (“He aimed at the stars but sometimes he hit London.”)

This year … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Tony Blair On Taking Civil Liberties

HE’S not gone yet – Tony Blair is talking about civil liberties and the War on Terror in the Times:
We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Al Gore On Celebrity

AL Gore is using his fame and celebrity to increase awareness on global warming. He made a film about it. An Inconventient Truth won two Oscars. Gore was once the … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Ken Livingstone’s Chum Hugo Chavez And Freedom Of Speech

LONDON mayor Ken Livingstone called Hugo Chavez, leader of Venezuela, “the best news out of Latin America in many years”.

And: “I have long had the greatest admiration for the extraordinary … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Princess Diana Says Belt Up In Car Safety Drive

THERE now follows a health and safety announcement about not wearing a seatbelt when travelling by motor vehicle, starring Princess Diana and assorted persons.

Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel, as … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Royal Family | Comments (23)

For Auld Lang Syne: The Queen On Tony Blair’s Legacy

SHE waits. That’s what she does.

Hers is long-living line. Her mother went on for eons. She has time. She has seen 10 of his kind come. And nine of his … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Uncategorized | Comment

Russell Brand Moulds Big Brother’s Imogen

IMOGEN Thomas, Big Brother’s Miss Wales, has something to tell us.

And she’d best be quick. Bit Brother 8 starts next week and Imogen has but a few days to remind … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Madeleine McCann: Drawing Your Own Conclusions

“KATE, wearing the now-familiar yellow and green ribbons in her hair, pushed as Amelie shouted, ‘Higher, Mummy, higher. Good fun.’”

The News of the World is in playground watching children at … (read more)

Posted: 27th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (132)

National Shooting Week: Countryside Alliance

IF it moves… (File in ‘Beyond Parody’):
The first-ever National Shooting Week was launched on Monday 21st May at the National Shooting Centre at Bisley, known as ‘the home of shooting’.

From … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

VAT Fraud: The EU’s Growth Industry

VAT Fraud: The EU’s Growth Industry. EU Ref writes:
VAT fraud cost the UK Treasury £4.75bn in 2005-06 and is estimated to be worth €250bn (£170bn) annually across the EU as … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)

I Know Who Killed Me: Lindsay Lohan’s New Movie

IT will shock you to learn that Lindsay Lohan, Hollywood fire crotch and rehab veteran, is an actress. She’s not really a stripper. This is acting. Pass the (pop) corn…

Lindsay … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Jamison Stone’s Hogzilla Boar (You Must See This Picture)

“IT feels really good,” says Jamison, of Pickensville, posing beside Hogzilla. “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Hogzilla is being … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (228)

Rare Animal’s Floating Aboard China’s Noah’s Ark

MORE on the wonders of Chinese food and exports aboard a Noah’s Ark:
Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world’s rarest animals have been found drifting in a … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Australian Big Brother Contestant And A Slow Death

OVER on Big Brother Australia, housemate Emma Cornell’s father has died.

This from the Guardian:
What can you say? It feels vaguely nihilistic to begin a column with these words, but they … (read more)

Posted: 26th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment

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