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Brave Phillip Schofield and celebrity cocks

Stephenie Lowe, wife of TV presenter and father of her two children Phillip Schofield – he just came out as gay – tells the Sun she loves him “as much … (read more)

Posted: 10th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, News | Comment

Stuart Lubbock: Michael Barrymore gets monstered

Some matters never get closure. The story of Madeleine McCann is one. Another is the death of Stuart Lubbock, who died at just 31 on March 31 2001. His name … (read more)

Posted: 9th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, News | Comment

Male daytime TV star shocks world: I’m not gay

Newspapers are full of news that daytime TV presenter Phillip Schofield is gay. “I’m gay, I’m proud, and I love my incredible wife” says the Sun, reflecting how Schofield … (read more)

Posted: 8th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, News, TV & Radio | Comment

Kirk Douglas: what I’ve learned in life and my one big regret

In 2001, Kirk Douglas (December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) told Esquire what he’d learned in life. The actor summed up: “In order to achieve anything, you must be … (read more)

Posted: 8th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, Film, News | Comment

Manchester United takes on the Sun – Liverpool fans nod

Loathed in Liverpool for its reporting on the Hillsborough disaster which saw 96 Liverpool fans lose their lives, could the Sun be about to lose Manchester, too? Manchester United have … (read more)

Posted: 7th, February 2020 | In: manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

The haunting opening credits to the Jimmy Greaves chat show (1988)

In 1988, Central TV hired former England footballer Jimmy Greaves to front a chatshow. The intro was interesting:

Jimmy featured “surprise guests” and a weekly progress report from Frank Bruno’s … (read more)

Posted: 6th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, Sports, TV & Radio | Comment

How to blow a massive soap bubble

In the journal Physical Review Fluids we read the research and findings of physicists at Emory University. Their mission: to find the perfect way to blow a massive bubble. The University … (read more)

Posted: 5th, February 2020 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Lie on your CV if you’re name ends with a vowel or you’re not called John

Funke Abimbola claims she was victim of “bias” when she tried to get into the legal profession. She tells the BBC: “I found a number of barriers to entering the … (read more)

Posted: 5th, February 2020 | In: Key Posts, Money, News | Comment

City Trader accused of eating sandwiches

A bacon sandwich is prepared after a study found body fat and obesity are far more closely linked to cancer than is generally realised.
Picture date: Wednesday 31 October 2007. The … (read more)

Posted: 4th, February 2020 | In: Money, News | Comment

Play 36,000 Flash games offline

You’ve seen the messages that Adobe is discontinuing its once ubiquitous Flash player. On December 31, 2020, Flash goes the way of 8Bit.

Born in 1996, Flash was the multimedia … (read more)

Posted: 4th, February 2020 | In: Technology | Comment

Paris creates Rue David Bowie – and we’re not sure why

NYC Bowie tribute

There’s to be a street in Paris named in honour of David Bowie. “There will soon be a Rue David Bowie in the 13th arrondissement of Paris,” … (read more)

Posted: 4th, February 2020 | In: Celebrities, Music, News | Comment

Marijuana: THCP is THC x 30

In Nature, researchers in Italy tell of a test of a form of cannabis that could be 30 times more potent than standard doses of THC. We read of the … (read more)

Posted: 4th, February 2020 | In: News | Comment

Streatham Terror attack video: cafe owner asks police for 30 minutes so diners can finish eating

The terrorist shot man shot dead by police after he stabbed two people in Streatham, south London, was called Sudesh Amman. Police were quick to the scene of his heinous … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, February 2020 | In: News | Comment

Chelsea Transfer balls: a BBC masterclass in bullshit.com

Signs the BBC’s football ‘Gossip’ page writer has had enough of working at bullshit.com. Today’s rumour mill dust is an exercise in ‘question asked / question answered’.

In other … (read more)

Posted: 31st, January 2020 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

American Dirt: when critics attack

Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt is the hottest book you haven’t read. Reportedly bought for a seven figure sum, the work hailed as the “Grapes of Wrath for our times” by … (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: Books, News, The Consumer | Comment

Nigel Farage celebrates Brexit with a portrait called ‘Mr Brexit’ – and are those lip fillers?

Michael Deacon was there to see a painting unveiled: Nigel Farage has just unveiled a portrait of himself entitled ‘Mr Brexit’. Jim Davidson is now giving a speech to mark … (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Watch the live Coronavirus tracking map

You can keep track of the coranavirus with this tracking map run by America’s Johns Hopkins University.

In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online dashboard (static … (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: News | Comment

Mind-blowing high resolution images of the sun’s surface

The above image is of the surface of the sun. Each cells is roughly the size of Texas. The National Science Foundation took the images and others with its Inouye Solar … (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment

The Entartete Kunst – when Nazis banned ‘degenerate’ art and music

The Nazis were not ones for jazz and free expression. They damned all as entartete kunst (degenerate art). To let fellow Ubermensch know what wrong thinking looked like, the Nazis … (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Strange But True | Comment

Sub-editor misses open goal in Chester city centre

As newspapers die is the art of sub-editing going with them?

The Chester preacher’s message is not thought to be for the sub-editor who missed the word “manic”.

Spotter: Chest Live
… (read more)

Posted: 30th, January 2020 | In: News | Comment

Prince Andrew and the WILL to do nothing

How’s things with Prince Andrew? The Daily Express has the grandiose Duke Of York telling us he “WILL” talk to the FBI about his dead peado pal Jeffrey Epstein. The … (read more)

Posted: 29th, January 2020 | In: News, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comment

Let’s swap Prince Andrew and Anne Sacoolas

Prince Andrew is “too honourable”. We know this because he told us so during a televised interview with the BBC on his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein (now dead). … (read more)

Posted: 28th, January 2020 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Aviva treats every customer just like ‘Michael’

Cheap words at insurer Aviva, which undid the pretence that letters are tailored to each individual customer by addressing thousands of missives to just one: ‘Michael’.

The boss doesn’t sit … (read more)

Posted: 28th, January 2020 | In: Money, News, The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal save £59m on Thomas Lemar

Arsenal have signed Spanish defender Pablo Mari for £7.5m from Brazilian club Flamengo. And now news is that they’ll follow that with the recruitment of nippy French winger Thomas Lemar. … (read more)

Posted: 25th, January 2020 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Black activist cropped from Greta Thunberg Davos photoshoot

If Greta Thunberg was black, would the world’s media prick up its ear when she spoke? It’s not what she says, but that the white, blonde from Sweden is saying … (read more)

Posted: 25th, January 2020 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

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