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Champions’ League Tears: Gerrard’s Liverpool Was Robbed

NO little lachrymosity on the Sun’s front page as Liverpool FC’s Steven Gerrard, his face contorted in “gutted” grief and suffering, illustrates the headline: “MERSEY CRIED.”

Liverpudlians are among Britain’s most … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Back pages | Comments (6)


11th Hour: Leonardo DiCaprio On Mother Nature’s Human Rights

LEONARDO Di Caprio writes for the Sun.

In “This is our planet’s 11th hour,” Leonardo tells us how the sky is falling in.

Every age wants to believe it is at the … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


Madeleine McCann: Do You See The Light?

MADELEINE McCann is missing. Madeleine McCann is still missing.

But the papers have largely moved on. The Star leads with Liverpool and a reality TV singer in a bikini; the Mail … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (62)


OAPs Stolen: Lookout For Geriatrophiles

WHAT do you call someone who hangs about old people’s homes?

Burglar? Maybe. But the tabloid press would certainly call them geriatrophiles.

Minds turn to this perversion in light of the Sun’s … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


Government’s £125million Criminal Assets

WHO says crime doesn’t pay?

What with the luxury mansions, limited-edition Bentleys, wads of cash and the jet-set lifestyle, surely there must be something in the whole crime lark? Just ask … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Squatter Harry Hallowes Joins Hampstead Elite

ORGANIC Fairtrade beers were spat out in horror and copies of the New Statesman flung away in anger as news spread around the leafy streets of Hampstead that a homeless … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comments (9)


Pay As You Throw: Bin Tax Spies In The Rubbish

CCTV cameras watch our every move across the urban landscape, spy drones hover menacingly above us and disembodied voices tell us to pick up the crisp packet we drop – … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Big Brother’s Moyles

CHRIS Moyles is to host the Big Brother spin-off Big Brother’s Big Mouth.

The Radio 1 DJ replaces Russell Brand.

Moyles will only last a week. Then another presenter will take over.

Such … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


Mark Keenan £65 Divorce-Online Hits Our Screens

IN a move that will have middle England decrying that this is the end of civilisation, while secretly making a mental note of the phone number on the screen, adverts … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Barclaycard Penalises Small Spenders

NO matter what fines they have to pay, no matter how much justice we think we are getting, the big banks will always find a way of getting their own … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Banks And Estate Agents Cop Record Complaints

WE may somewhat revel in our image as a nation of whingers, but when it comes to banks and their petty thievery we are totally justified in complaining and, according … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)


Studs (Studzinksi) Up For The Tate Modern

THE American-born London-based banker John ‘Studs’ Studzinski has given £5 million to the Tate Modern – the largest gift in the museum’s history.

Now the modern art mecca is appealing to … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Americans In Iraq: The Soldiers’ Story

THE patrol of about 20 American and 50 Iraqi soldiers set out before dawn.

A photographer for the New York Times, Michael Kember, noticed that an Iraqi soldier’s mobile phone kept … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)


Anorak On Radio 4

I’M on Radio 4 in a moment, talking about Madeleine McCann and EastEnders. Who knew those two things were related? Tune in…

Listen here:

pm_show.mp3 … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (14)


More Holocaust Deniers And Anti-Semites

SYRIAN Author Muhammad Nimr Al-Madani says Hitler Was Falsely Accused of Committing Genocide against the Jews. He’s on Iranian TV. Makes you wonder what will happen when the people get … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Man Invites Police To Hack Computer For Child Pornography

SHOULD you be able to look at your child’s compouter records? And get the police to hack it to look for child porn?
Can an elderly father give police permission to … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson And A Tuesday Night Out

“HOLLYWOOD EXPLODES.”

And the good news is that Hollywood explodes in a “FRENZY of… BOOZE! DRUGS!…and VIOLENCE!”

Who would have supposed that the bougainvillea-clad wonder of the Hollywood Hills would mutate into … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Uncategorized | Comment (1)


A Free £10 To Bet On Big Brother With Betfair

ANORAK’S free Big Brother bet is proving to be a bigger hit than Paul Potts.

To date “lots” of you have signed up to Betfair and taken advantage of the … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Jade Goody Slips Under The Wire

JADE Goody is back. Did she ever go away?

Says Jade, described as “Dippy” in the Mirror and not replusive or racist: “In a really ideal world, I’d like to … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


A Group Of Gangs And Other Collectives

AS Arsenal fans know, whereas their old ground at Highbury was a library, the new Gunners’ new Emirates Stadium is an adult learning centre.

The language changes. And we learn via … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


Devout Muslim In Big Brother House

BIG Brother is to feature a “burka babe”.

Phwar (on terror) indeed as the Star says Big Brother is on the verge of selecting a Muslim girl with strict Islamic views.

It … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)


Big Brother Danielle Lloyd Goes The Gay Way

SAYS Big Brother bully Danielle Lloyd: “I might have to become a lesbian. It seems all footballers are cheats. I don’t know why I go out with them. But no … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Madeleine McCann Fact And Fiction: EastEnders Sorts It Out

MADELEINE McCann continues to attract media coverage.

The theft of Madeleine McCann has always been a single thread story. Remove the speculation and it is the story of one girl’s disappearance.

But … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (19)


A Windsor Is Decapitated And Prince Harry Lights Up

NEWS that Barbara Windsor has been decapitated both saddens and sickens us in Anorak Towers.

And the Sun’s story that this lopping off was enacted by a squaddie from the same … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


HIP HIP Hooray: Home Information Packs On Hold

THE monumental disaster that is the Government’s ill-conceived Home Information Pack scheme was thrown into even more disarray yesterday after the Government’s Minister for Opus Dei, Ruth Kelly, performed an … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2007 | In: Money | Comments (7)