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Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez is sick, grasping and pathetic – no wonder they all want him

Good news for those of you who hate football? The domestic season is yet to begin and already a player is doing a great impression of a grasping, unlovely git. … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Charlie Gard has died and journalists are ‘digging for dirt’

Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old boy whose life pitted reason against emotion, has died. Charlie’s mother, Connie Yates, tells the Mail, which seem to have bought the parents’ story from Alison … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2017 | In: News, Tabloids | Comment

Diane Abbott trolls Theresa May with ‘made-up’ quote about curbing lesbians

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott tweets “More on Theresa May’s thoughts on LGBT rights”.

 

 

According to Abbott, May once said:
“Curbing the promotion of lesbians in Merton’s schools starts with girls having … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Transfer balls: Bale joins Manchester United is a recurring fantasy

Transfer balls: questioned by Real Madrid’s official website, the club’s manager Zinedine Zidane was asked if Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo (the so-called ‘BBC’) were likely to remain.

“I … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2017 | In: Back pages, manchester united, News, Sports | Comment

Charlie Gard: an emotive trial by media

 

Charlie Gard’s face is splashed across the Daily Mail’s front page. His face hovers above the word “MANSLAUGHTER”. The accusation is not levelled at those who have ruled that the … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2017 | In: News, Tabloids | Comment

Reject new trolling laws: free speech means being free to lampoon and abuse MPs

British politicians have been subjected to a wave “of racism, sexism and homophobia” on social media, spiking during the General Election. Not all of it is satirical lampooning of our … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians | Comment

Transfer balls: Sanchez agrees Manchester City and PSG as Arsenal wait

Transfer balls: a look at dire, questionable and clickbait-led football reporting.

Compare and contrast the following headlines in The Sun:
July 27, 2017: “HEART SET ON CITY – PSG drop interest in … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Man knifes mind-controlling pig before hiding at bottom of swimming pool

 

Bobby Andreas Heck, 41, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and animal cruelty. Before his arrest, Heck was standing in his family’s home, accusing Mr. Oinkers, a pet … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: News, Strange But True | Comment

Cobble: watch a rope of molten steel just miss a mill worker

 

A cobble is steel snagged on a roller during manufacturing. The cobble blocks the flow and causes the freshly milled steel o rear up.

 

 

Spotter: BoingBoing, Azhar Hussain, Digg

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Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment

Police find 30 eyeballs in man’s anus

 

Having stopped a car being driven by Roy Tilbott, 51, Wyoming police spotted a few eyeballs on the road close to where the suspect was standing. They seemed to have … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal clickbait balls: Wenger gone and Ozil is buried in the Gunners’ (wooden) box

In recent days the Sun’s Neil Ashton has told Arsenal fans that Mesut Ozil is staying at the club (proof: the German Ashton said wasn’t worth “two bob” has renewed … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, News, Sports | Comments (2)

June Forey: the voice of a million cartoon mornings dies

 

June Forey (September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) – you might not know the name, but you’ll know her voice if you ever watched cartoons on a Saturday morning. … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2017 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

When a child goes missing in Carrara global media rings the bell

 

Tales of missing children are as rare as they are are indelible. So when a child went missing in Australia, the media was on the case. ‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’ … (read more)

Posted: 25th, July 2017 | In: News | Comment

Conor McGregor wears the jersey of the NBA player who slept with Mayweather’s wife

Conor McGregor v Floyd Mayweather is worth the admission fee. My money’s on the American. But in the build up McGregor is putting in the big hits:

 

 

It reminds me of … (read more)

Posted: 25th, July 2017 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment

Charlie Gard is allowed to die

The legal fight for Charlie Gard’s future is over. The desperately ill child’s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, have ended their five-month court battle for their son to be … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2017 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Transfer Balls: Neymar to Manchester United, Ronaldo’s secret PSG message and clickbait

Transfer Balls: a look at clickbait-led football reporting. The Sun has news on Neymar’s rumoured desire to leave Barcelona to join PSG.
DON’T DO IT. Cristiano Ronaldo tells Neymar not to … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2017 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Americans are banned from visiting North Korea

Best hurry up with that romantic break to North Korea. Donald Trump has alerted American tourists to the risk of “long-term detention” in Mr Kim’s dystopia. You might argue that … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Arsenal Transfer Balls: Alexis Sanchez goes missing in Paris

Transfer Balls: How much money is Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez’s worth? Much guff has been written about the Chilean player whose Arsenal contract expires in a year’s time. The pick of … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, News, Sports | Comment

Brexit supporting Daily Mail plans to stay in the EU by relocating to Ireland

The Daily Mail’s owners are considering relocating from Kensington, London, to Ireland (EU). The Times reports:

 

 

July 1, 2017:
Spencer-Churchill also let slip that the Daily Mail’s publishers are considering upping sticks … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2017 | In: Broadsheets, News, Tabloids | Comment

Manchester City are not facing a transfer ban over Kylian Mbappe

Things escalate quickly in tabloid-land. The Times reports on the news that Monaco are loudly thinking about narking to those paragons of virtue and probity at FIFA over four European … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2017 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Alexis Sanchez leaves Arsenal for PSG but no-one’s got a photo

Transfer balls: Compare and contrast the Sun’s Alexis Sanchez and Arsenal news from today:

The Sun: July 21 2017 –

 

 

The Sun: July 21 2017 –

 

The Sun, July 21, 2017 –
Alexis Sanchez in … (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Spurs balls: a ‘top-four struggle’, Kane’s ‘very happy’ and corrupting Jenas

Spurs News, as supplied by the Independent Clickbait Factory. “Tottenham Hotspur could struggle to finish in the top four next season, says Jermaine Jenas”, runs the headline in the once … (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2017 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comment (1)

Donald Trump pretends he can’t speak Japanese as Akie Abe forgets her English

 

You know how it is: you’re sat next to some awful bore at a dinner party. Donald Trump feels your pain. The New York Times spots him sat alongside the interminably dull … (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

O. J. Simpson finds God and his way out of prison

O.J. Simpson, 70, has been was granted parole. Having served nine years prison for armed robbery, the former all-American hero could be out in October. The man (in)famously cleared of stabbing Nicole Brown … (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2017 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Star Wars but all of the light saber sounds are Owen Wilson saying “wow”

Star Wars, but all of the light saber sounds are Owen Wilson saying “wow”:

WOW!

 
… (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2017 | In: Celebrities, Film | Comment

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