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Grenfell fraudster Jenny McDonagh spent stolen money on a huge dildo

 

Jenny McDonagh, 39, has been sentenced for five and half years choky for using her finance manager’s job at Kensington and Chelsea council to get pre-paid credit cards that should … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, October 2018 | In: News | Comment

Woman blinded by stray ball at Ryder Cup sues

Corine Remande, 49, lost an eye at the Ryder Cup when a tee shot by Brooks Koepka on the sixth hole hit her. Remade was standing by her husband when … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, October 2018 | In: Sports | Comment

Manchester United balls: Pogba and Sanchez out

The Manchester Evening News is in Team Mourinho in the draining, negative Manchester manager’s row with, well, most of this side, not least of all star turns Alexis Sanchez and … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, October 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United balls: Barcelona don’t want whinging Pogba

Don’t panic, Paul Pogba. Sure, you’re a destabilising present at Manchester United who criticised the team in public after a 1-1 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers, in which you set up … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, October 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United players betrayed Mourinho – it’s Chelsea 2015 all over again

 

Is Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho looking to be sacked? Asked how his team are responding to a poor run of results, he told media “some [players] care more than … (read more)

Posted: 1st, October 2018 | In: Key Posts, manchester united, Sports | Comment

The Times’ ‘Giles Coren’ hits below the belt in a twitter spat with the Guardian’s ‘Michael White’

Giles Coren, The Times’s self-satisfied journalist, has been tweeting to The Guardian’s Michael White. Or to be precise, tweets have been tweeted on the two men’s respective twitter accounts. Maybe they … (read more)

Posted: 1st, October 2018 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Manchester United balls: Sanchez beats Mourinho to the exit and Pogba stays

Is Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho lacking in self-awareness? Odd to ask, I know, given his crushing narcissism.  But when he said before United’s defeat at West Ham the club … (read more)

Posted: 1st, October 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Boris vs May: Sunday Times puts us on first-name terms with Johnson

Boris Johnson wants to lead the Tory Party and become Prime Minister. Theresa May is blocking his ambitions. It’s “war”. But is it a fair fight in the media? No:

 

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Posted: 30th, September 2018 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment

Madeleine McCann: Gerry’s tears, Pope is religious and Maddie is missing

Did you tune in to BBC Radio 4 show on fathers and daughters to hear Madeleine McCann’s father, Gerry McCann, as he “weeps uncontrollably”, as the Daily Star says he … (read more)

Posted: 30th, September 2018 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, News, Tabloids | Comment

The youth hungry Labour Party really is a cult to an old white man

Ever wondered how a society gets to the stage where they erect statues to the esteemed leader in every town and every city? Persecuting Jews is good. Starving people, also … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2018 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Manchester United balls: United ready to part with Pogba or Mourinho

Former Real Madrid manager and French legend Zinedine Zidane is learning to speak English so he can get the Manchester United job when job Jose Mourinho gets the chop, says the Sun. … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2018 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Boris Johnson in Kuenssberg and Rigby fake news shocker

 

Boris Johnson is back on the telly. Both the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg and Sky’s Beth Rigby have the first televised interview since Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary. Is it a … (read more)

Posted: 28th, September 2018 | In: Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment

Hate crime: Julia Hartley-Brewer defiled sacred safe space at Labour conference

You don’t have to like Julia Hartley-Brewer to be on her side in a story about safe spaces. Disability News Service (DNS) says Labour Party members want the LBC presenter disciplined by … (read more)

Posted: 28th, September 2018 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Arsenal balls: Aaron Ramsey takes his one goal a season and heads to Italy

Yesterday Arsenal fans learned something that had escaped them. The Mirror’s John Cross told them and readers of his Daily Mirror “exclusive” that Aaron Ramsey is “one of Europe’s top goal-scoring … (read more)

Posted: 28th, September 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

The newspapers: unpack your prejudices for Christine Blasey Ford v Brett Kavanaugh

Who do you led with – Christine Blasey Ford, the blonde, white women who stood before the massed ranks of the US Senate Judiciary Committee and the TV cameras as … (read more)

Posted: 28th, September 2018 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Cold War Steve: Steve McFadden stars in an exhibition by Twitter’s greatest artist

 

The art of Cold War Steve is to feature in an exhibition at The Social, London. Called A Brief History of the World (1953 – 2018), the show’s running thread … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2018 | In: Celebrities, News, The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal prepare to sell overrated Aaron Ramsey

Transfer Balls spots this gem of an “exclusive” on the Daily Mirror’s back page: “Aaron Ramsey to leave Arsenal next summer.” The midfielder’s current deal runs until the end of … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Manchester United balls: Pogba laughs at Mourinho as players prepare mass exodus

It’s the Daily Paul Pogba, a look at news on the likeable, over-hyped French midfielder, who told the United board before the World Cup that he wanted to leave Old … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

They might be Her-oes: the trans debate is valid

Being a woman is easy. All that suffrage stuff was bunkum. The penis and the womb make no impact on our life experiences. You just need a dress, some heels, … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2018 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Doors to manual: Meghan Markle shuts that door

Today the Duchess of Sussex closed a car door. Arriving at the Royal Academy of Arts in a chauffeur driven luxury motor, Meghan Markle (Tabloid Rule 11: all Royals keep … (read more)

Posted: 26th, September 2018 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment

Arsenal banned Low from speaking to Ozil

“NO PRONUNCIATION IN LONDON,” declares the headline on Bild, the German tabloid. The headline is viewed through the Google Translate mangle. But the next part is clear: “Löw locked out … (read more)

Posted: 26th, September 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Abramovich wants $3billion for Chelsea and Manchester United offload Pogba

“We’re the biggest sports team in the world,” declared Ed Woodward, the Manchester United chief executive. A few hours after that boast, Derby County arrived at Old Trafford and booted … (read more)

Posted: 26th, September 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United: Pogba shunts Mourinho closer to the exit

Anyone in any doubt that Paul Pogba’s words were all about Jose Mourinho is obviously not Jose Mourinho, a man for whom everything is always and essentially about him. Responding … (read more)

Posted: 25th, September 2018 | In: Key Posts, manchester united, Sports | Comment

There’s a huge mural to Mark E Smith outside a chip shop in Prestwich

 

Dave Haslam tweets this huge mural of The Fall’s former frontman Mark E Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) being painted outside a chip shop in Prestwich by graffiti … (read more)

Posted: 25th, September 2018 | In: Celebrities | Comment

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