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Big Brother Is Scripted

“BIG Brother is means to be light entertainment and about everyone having a laugh,” says Danina McCall, the show’s presenter.

Just like in the book 1984, right?

“During Celebrity Big Brother I … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Greens Demand New Speed Limit In London

LONDONERS rejoice!
A speed limit of 20mph could be introduced across much of London within three years.

The measure, which would affect central London and residential areas where the limit is usually … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Diving Into A Paddling Pool From Great Height (Video)

BREAKING a Guinness world record is not all about growing your nails, having an overactive pituitary gland or trying to see how many live snakes you can stuff into your … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Gun Giveaway: Free Guns In Virginia

YOU would expect Virginia to be the last place in the United States to hold a “gun giveaway” so soon after the deadliest mass shooting in American history. But if … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (12)

Tony Blair Is A Sheepshagger

IT’S an old joke, but a good one, nonetheless. Martin Samuel, writing in the Times, says this of Tony Blair’s legacy:
Jones the Sheepshagger is sitting in the corner of the … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

I’ll Be: Prince Edward Meets Arnold Schwazenegger

PANIC over. Prince Edward is alive and as well as can be expected.

As the Sun reports Eddie the TWIT (The Weed in Tweed) has been to an awards do.

Eddie has … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (4)

Pave The World: Trees Create Global Warming

STOP planting trees to offset that trip to the shops by jet plane and gare a handful of cement. Trees create globale warming. Pave the world. It’s the only way.
Get … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Keep Mentioning The War: German Thomas Hüetlin On Beckhams And Britishers

DEUTSCHLAND (“Ze Germans”)… Nein points. (“Nein! Nein! Nein!”)

If Eurovision voting is a barometer of national alliances, then the UK giving the Germans no points is a sign of lingering hatreds.

Of … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (9)

Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat And More Questions

MADELEINE McCann is missing. Still missing.
But today there is news. The daily front-page shots of Madeleine’s traumatised parents are moved further within the papers to make space for the head … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (1,194)

Big Brother Hots Up

PSSST! Wanna see a picture of the boiler that will heat the water that will warm and wash the Big Brother 8 contestants?

It’s the kind of scoop the Star prides … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Come In SNOWY: Big Brother Danielle’s Lloyd’s Call For Help

DANIELLE Lloyd, Big Brother’s orangey-skinned bully, is “distraught”.

As recorded in testimony, Danielle has been the victim of a mugging. In the course of a contretemps in a VIP toilet at … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)

Paid By The Inch: Chelsea’s Michael Ballack Wins

MICHAEL Ballack, Chelsea’s expensive makeweight is £35,000 better off.

No, Ballack, who earns around £130,000 a week at Chelsea, has not collected a bonus for being Chelsea’s most expensive flop of … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comments (2)

The Great £1 Property Giveaway

WHAT’S this? Has the property market collapsed overnight?

News is that if you have a solitary pound in your pocket you can bag yourself a swimming pool, or what about an … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)

The Bank That Likes To Say Yes: Halifax Fraud

A CUSTOMER adviser who worked at the Halifax bank in Bexleyheath has been jailed for four years after helping fraudsters steal £2.3 million from accounts.

Twenty-four-year-old Shana Campbell passed confidential bank … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Phish And Chips: Chip And Pin Readers For Home Shoppers

IN the never-ending battle to thwart online fraudsters, high street banks such as Barclays and NatWest are sending out millions of Chip & Pin card-readers to online customers who want … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Don’t Panic: Pakistan Is Looking For Lost Nuclear Material

JUST say, for arguments sake, that while out and about in Pakistan you happened to stumple upon some nuclear material? What would you do? This is, of course, a hypothetical … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

After Virginia Tec: Teachers Stage Armed Attack On Students

FOLLOWING the Virginia Tec shootings, and other similar madness, American classrooms are being made ready for the armed maniac.

From CNN:
Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

The Cult Of Scientology: The BBC’s John Sweeney Loses It

PICK of the night: the BBC’s John Sweeney investigates the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. Panorama at 8:30pm on BBC1. Is Scientology a cult?

John Travolta, a Scientologist, has written … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (12)

The Pantheon Project: Mafiosi Return For Pizza The Pie

“WOULD you like Heroin or Marijuana with that Margherita pizza, sir?”

New Yorkers are used to reading about people with names like Michael “Mikey Scars” DiLeonardo, Dominick “Fat Dom” Pizzonia … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Salad Days: Preserving Wildlife In A Bag

EVER year brings news of foreign bodies eating or destroying the habitats of our native British species.

This year horror is steatoda nobilis, the false black widow. Stuart Hine, an insect … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment

American Monarchy: Bush And Clinton To Rule Always

THE Queen is in America and the Clinton and Bush dynasties are taking notes:
In 2009 the betting is that America will see the son of a former president replaced by … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

The Sun Shines On Madeleine McCann

MADELEINE McCann is still missing.

“WE HAVEN’T GOT A CLUE,” says the Sun’s front page. The paper quotes Chief Inspector Oligario Sousa: “We have examined many leads, but each has now … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (80)

What Is The Point Of Terrorists?

THE Guardian’s Gary Younge looks at what terrorists acting alone achieve – short-term pain that builds support against their cause:
Individual acts of terrorism will always put the left on the … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)

New Big Brother House Revealed

THE new Big Brother house has been revealed.

Part of the swimming pool will be indoors. This allows the cameras to capture the orangey tones of Armani’s puckered flesh under controlled … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)

Bully Off: Big Brother’s Danielle Lloyd Lives The Dream

IT’S not as if Big Brother star Danielle Lloyd hasn’t suffered enough.

Dumped by her middle-aged lover Teddy Sheringham, pushed off a table and overlooked for any TV work, including a … (read more)

Posted: 14th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

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