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Cherie Blair Resigns!

ARE you sure Cherie Blair resigned? Did any one hear her promise to go? (Pictures: Blair Hack; Cherie Beau Bo D’Or)

Looking through the Sun, there is a lot on Tony … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Uncategorized | Comment (1)


Mugs Away: Tony Blair’s Resignation Speech In Full

“THANK you all very much. It’s a great privilege to be here with you again today and to thank all of you for such a wonderful and warm welcome. (Pictures: … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Cherie-o: Saying Goodbye To The First Lady In Pictures

CHERIE Blair has gone. And she leaves us not with a grin but pictures:

… (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Melon-Knees: Melanie Griffith Gathers Herself

MELANIE Griffith’s knees follow you around the room.

Having spent what the Express calls a “fortune” on facial surgery, the paper says the Hollywood actress’s lower half is letting her down.

Griffith, … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


Take Him Up, Ginger: Prince Harry’s Red Army In Iraq

ANORAK’S plan for all British soldiers in Iraq to be in Prince Harry’s Ronald McDonald Army is developing well.

In “WE’RE WIG YOU, SIR,” the Sun says that members of Harry’s … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)


Things Get Even Worse For Web Fraud Victims

WHAT could be worse than having your credit card details nicked? How about then being accused of being a paedophile?

According to the Daily Mail, hundreds of Britons fingered in the … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


The Dead Poole: Barclays Lay Off 1,100

DESPITE making enormous profits of £7 billion last year, Barclays, those kings of the bank charge, have decided to axe over 1000 job yesterday from their offices in Poole, Dorset.

Barclays … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comments (4)


Interest Rates On The Up And Up

THOSE financial boffins at the Bank Of England just can’t stop fiddling with interest rates, can they? Yesterday’s quarter point increase to a six-year high 5.5 per cent is the … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Kebab In The Oven: Big Brother Bully Jade Goody Expecting

HEADLINES likes “JADE GOODY WE HATE YOU”, “JADE: DIE!” and “JADE YOU ARE A FAT BIGOT” led Anorak to see the Big Brother bigot as the pariah of the land.

But … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (22)


Should Britsh Police All Get Guns?

PC David Coppefield looks at whether or not British police officers should be routinely armed:
Whenever an officer is killed in the line of duty in anything other than a car … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


World’s Most Repressive Regimes Resistant to Change

FREEDOM IN The World, a report by Freedom House, lists the world’s most repressive regimes.

Did Tony Blair get out in time, just before the UK made the list? No. The … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Rudolph Knows: Tell The Pope Giuliani Is Running For President Not Heaven

REPUBLICAN Presidential nominees do not support abortion. So Catholic Rudolph Giuliani’s decision to back abortion rights is either a dumb move or a radical departure.After all, didn’t the Pope spell … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Bird Man Of Portaloise: A Budgie In The Bush

A SEARCH is underway at Portaloise maximum security prison, Ireland.

Responding to the orders of Minister for Justice Michael McDowell, guards are looking into this and that.

McDowell is on the case. … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Iran: It’s The Economy Stupid

IRAN will be wanting those Man At Ahmadinejad suits back. The ecomony is in a state. Not all of that oil money goes to the people. Really it does not. … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Al Sharpton Bothers God And Mitch Romney

THE race for the White Hosue is long enough to make everyone look good and everyone look bad.

Al Sharpton, Reverend Al, is the recognisable face of “all things black”, as … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (7)


The Price Of Gordon Brown’s Red Box

EVER wonder who much a ministerial red box costs, like the one Gordon Brown brandishes on Budget Day?

Dizzy investigates:
Well blow me down with a feather, I never knew that ministerial … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Madeleine McCann: Watching The Parents

MORE no news on the Madeleine McCann case.

It is now a week since the three-year-old girl was snatched from a Portugal holiday resort.

The story has been distressing to watch on … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (2,260)


Plot To Blow Up Big Brother House

BIG BROTHER is to be blown up.

The Star’s front page (“B.BRO BIG BLOW”) reports that in the Big Brother finale the house will be blown to smithereens.

Interesting stuff. And readers … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment


G-Wiz: Green Car Goes With A Bang

THE G-Wiz car looks like the protype for the golf cart, before it was made sturdier and roadworthy.

Drive one in London and avoid the congestion charge and some parking laws.

But … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment


Sid Snot: Kate Moss Bans Pete Doherty’s Sex Pistols

“THINK of it less as snot and more as ectoplasm,” says Pete Doherty to Kate Moss as she returns to her newly decorated home.

As the Star reports, with Moss away … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (9)


Running Scared: Paris Hilton Should Mexico Go

PARIS Hilton is scared. “I’m very scared,” says Paris Hilton.

Pending an appeal, Paris is heading to jail. And the fear is that One Night in Paris will become 45 Nights … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment


From BB To DD: Big Brother Danielle Lloyd’s Busty 70-Year-Old Head

DANIELLE Lloyd, the Big Brother bully, is preparing to offer Star readers a world exclusive. That is, of course, those Star readers not employed by Messers Nip ‘n’ Tuck.

“Dani’s NEW … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)


Goody Overboard: Big Brother Air Rage

BIG Brother loudmouth Jade Goody’s mum has issued a “four-letter tirade on a holiday jet”.

So says the Sun.

Jackiey Bunden, for it is she, is aboard a packed flight from Gatwick … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Immigrant Orange

“THEY come over here and take our jobs. And our homes. And our women. And our men”.

No matter how much immigrants contribute to the economy, state services and to the … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment


Pensions Mis-Sold To Over 100,000

THE Financial Services Authority has revealed that around 120,000 people could be missing out on retirement money after being mis-sold pensions.

After a two-year investigation into transfers out of state earnings … (read more)

Posted: 10th, May 2007 | In: Money | Comment