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Boris Johnson’s daughter in Prada headband storm

When they invented prime ministers, they also created Prime Ministers’ children. Unlike the SADDOS (sons and daughters of stars) who can mime, pose and pout in their instagram branded knickers … (read more)

Posted: 29th, April 2020 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer Balls: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang stays at Arsenal, leaves for £30m and Chelsea swap him for Willian

No football, but no end of transfer balls as the BBC tells us that Arsenal “will sell Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 30, for £30m”. The team captain who scores around … (read more)

Posted: 29th, April 2020 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Full spin ahead: Biased media covers the PM’s coronavirus update

Can you spin the coronavirus to make a story favourable to your own political agenda? As James Ball (@jamesrbuk) puts it: ‘Half of twitter’s idea of a good question to … (read more)

Posted: 28th, April 2020 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Post ICU syndrome in the age of Covid-19

I’ve been in intensive care. I remember the nurse from Redcar who made me laugh. She worked with the strength of purpose and efficiency of a submarine commander. I remember … (read more)

Posted: 27th, April 2020 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal sanction Aubameyang exit in cavalcade of tabloid tosh

The BBC says Arsenal are no longer discussing a new contract with their captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The Beeb’s source is the Daily Mirror, which says Arsenal have “pulled out” of … (read more)

Posted: 26th, April 2020 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Coronavirus Warning and Tape Prevent People Sitting Down In London’s Brockwell Park

To London’s Brockwell Park, where sitting in the park will not be tolerated. Lambeth Council have covered the benches with tape. the message is you can only use the … (read more)

Posted: 26th, April 2020 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Gotcha journalism – Priti Patel out of context: shoplifting down on last year

All these televised briefings from our top politicians tell us one thing: we see too much of them and the journalist gets the answers their Gotcha! style of questioning deserves. … (read more)

Posted: 26th, April 2020 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Lockdown Challenge: Museums Compete to Show ‘Creepiest Objects’

On Twitter a #CuratorBattle is testing museums to showcase their creepiest objects.

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Posted: 25th, April 2020 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Tory councillor in hot cross bun swastika row

Usually a hot cross bun is embossed with a cross, to symbolise Christianity. English folklore says that buns baked and served on Good Friday will not spoil or grow mouldy … (read more)

Posted: 25th, April 2020 | In: News, Politicians, Strange But True | Comment

Liverpool finish first but don’t win Premier League title; Leicester, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United qualify for Champions League; Wolves, Sheffield United and Arsenal get Europa League

The Dutch have cancelled their domestic football season. And it’s bad news for Liverpool and very good news for Norwich and other teams facing relegation from the Premier League. There … (read more)

Posted: 24th, April 2020 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, News, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Nicotine to fight Covid-19 – study says smokers have reduced risk of catching coronavirus

Can it really be that smoking tobacco, inhaling all that nicotine, reduces the risk of catching Covdi-19? Can smoking tobacco prevent really you from getting this hideous respiratory disease? A … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2020 | In: News | Comment

Kick It Out: Newcastle United’s Saudi Arabia money is perfect for the greedy, moralising Premier League

The latest plot to make Newcastle United winners is under attack. beIn Sports wants the Premier League to stop Newcastle’s proposed £300million takeover from a Saudi Arabia-led consortium. The prospective … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2020 | In: Key Posts, News, Sports | Comment

Newspaper editor begs to be on Harry and Meghan’s censorship list

Now that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have banned tabloid newspapers and the wrong kind of readers from keeping up to date with their wokeness, branding (Archie of Archewell) and … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2020 | In: News, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comment

Covid-19 dies naturally after 70s days – lockdown is useless

Israel’s Health Ministry supported the country’s lockdown to fight Covid-19. But academic Isaac Ben-Israel says it mattered not. He reasons that Covid-19 runs to a pattern. Ben-Israel, chairman of … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2020 | In: News | Comment

RyanAir sent this greedy email to customers who asked for a refund for flights cancelled over Covid-19

RyanAir have found a new way to make life harder for the poor sods who pay the airline money. If your flight was cancelled due to Covid-19, you were offered … (read more)

Posted: 21st, April 2020 | In: News | Comment

Ofcom treats people as idiots by censoring the Covid-19 conspiracy theorists

Media regulator Ofcom has ruled that London Live TV broke broadcasting rules and posed “significant harm to viewers in London during the pandemic” by broadcasting a long interview with David … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2020 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

The contents of a UK Government coronavirus care package

If they think you need it, the UK government send you a care package to keep you eating in the coronavirus crisis. The contents are:

1 loaf of white sliced bread

1 … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2020 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment

Tabloid readers flock to buy Vogue for news of Harry and Meghan as former royals ban the Sun, Express, Mirror and Mail from doing their PR

Harry and Meghan – live cam

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will no longer “offer themselves up as currency for an economy of clickbait and distortion”. The couple, now living in … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2020 | In: Key Posts, News, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comment

The NHS advert for staying at home during coronavirus crisis features a headless woman trapped beneath two laughing women and a dog

The NHS advert tells us to Stay At Home. Yeah, you can go out to exercise for an hour a day. And you can go shopping. And if you’re in … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2020 | In: Key Posts, News, Strange But True | Comment

Everything explained in one huge conspiracy theory graphic

The conspiracy theory about the conspiracy theories has been pulled together in one graphic. Of course, what you can’t see is the real evidence just just off the page to … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2020 | In: Key Posts, News, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal show their class as players agree reduced salaries to help the club

How is your football club responding to the coronavirus crisis? Liverpool and Spurs got greedy. Their plan to milk the State for staff wages upset fans, whose vociferous reaction caused … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2020 | In: Arsenal, Money, Sports | Comment

Coronavirus coppers filmed harassing and threatening journalist in Finsbury Park

We don’t know why the police were talking to a woman and her dog in Finsbury Park, North London. But one journalist who tried to find out was harassed and … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2020 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

The Communist Party of China is lying about coronavirus but the Left only cares about Boris Johnson

All those graphs showing the death rates by country for Coronavirus Covid-19 are bunkum. In Belgium, any deaths thought to be from the virus are counted as deaths from the … (read more)

Posted: 18th, April 2020 | In: News | Comment

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