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Did Anti-Gay American Missionaries Play A Part In David Kato’s Murder?
CAN David Kato’s murder in Uganda can be linked to US Christian missionaries in Africa and their extreme anti-gay fervour?
The missionaries’ associates had a hand in Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which calls for gays to be hanged. (Mr Kato’s killers opted for the iron bar. Mr Kato was head of Sexual Minorities Uganda – Smug (?!) – and had been targeted for execution by a small circulation paper called Rolling Stone.)
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Topsy And Tim Meet the Police: A Child’s Book At Spoof Time
THE arrival of a new Ladybird book is always a cause of rejoicing, particularly if it is part of the popular ‘Topsy and Tim’ series, which aims to “reassure young children having first experiences of their own“.
In Topsy and Tim Meet the Police, the forthcoming addition to the series, the twins’ class is visited by two police officers, who explain to the children what their jobs involve:
“Topsy and Tim find out about stranger danger, learn about safe places to play, and even get to visit the police station themselves when they find somebody’s belongings.”
This is not the first Ladybird book to deal with the subject of the police. In 1962 The Policeman was published as part of the ‘People at Work’ series, and went on to be a bestseller. It described the policeman’s job in simple terms and was illustrated by John Berry’s distinctive paintings.
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (5)
Chantelle Tagoe’s Louboutin Museum Is A Sign Of The Armageddon
CHANTELLE Tagoe dates Emile Heskey, Midlands football’s transferrable battering ram. Their home boasts an air hockey table, six bedrooms and a “football area”.
But Tagoe particularly likes her walk-in wardrobe and dressing room “with brown snakeskin-effect walls and cubby holes so that Chantelle can showcase her extensive collection of handbags and shoes.”
Showcase to OK! magazine and the coachloads of tourists who pass through her dressing of a given afternoon.
Says Chantelle of her collection:
“Louboutins are like pieces of art on your feet!”
You can get the same effect by wearing Anorak’s Tate Modern entry Vomit In Sock, or doodling a picture of a dead shark on your Converse, or wearing two dead sharks – one on each foot; or two on one foot to be really edgy. (If you can’t find sharks use battered cod.)
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Cheryl Cole Moth Wings Present The World’s Worst Tramp Stamp Tattoos
IN light of Cheryl Cole’s tramp stamp tattoo – it’s vital bedtime reading for any conquest looking to think of anything other than Ashley Cole (the “nation’s sweetheart” has a “Mrs Cole” tattoo ont eh back of her neck) – we bring a gallery of the world’s worst.
What’s your favourite?
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
National Television Awards 2011 Photos: Inside Louis Spence
THE National Television Awards in pictures: After the Cheryl Cole v Kerry Katona tattoo Smack Down, all eyes fell on Louie Spence, that prancing, gurning, mincing, shrieking, 1970s TV recidivist star of Pineapple Dance Studios.
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Child Abused By Gaming Dad In Xbox 360 Video
IN the video of modern life, we see the adult male playing with his XBox 360 – and a child within reach taking a less-than-virtual smack in the head…
Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Elton John’s Gay Family Photos Censored By Anti-Gay Christians In Arkansas
ELTON John and David Furnish’s baby Zachary is not acceptable viewing for the people of a Harps supermarket in Mountain View, Arkansas. The US magazine in which they showcase their child to the planet has been encased in a protective sheath, known locally as a “family shield“.
So, who are the leaders of Harps?
Kim Eskew, President & COO:
Kim and his wife Karen live in Springdale and are members of First Baptist Church of Springdale.
The church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The church believes that:
Homosexual is a chosen behavior not a discovered sexual orientation.
A child is set up as a result of poor parenting to make them more likely to choose to become homosexual.
Homosexuals can convert to heterosexuality through prayer, becoming saved.
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)
The National TV Awards Photos: Cheryl Cole’s Tramp Stamp And Katona’s Coloured In
THE National TV Awards are the AGM that everyone in telly is talking about. At the O2 Arena in London, the people who live inside the magic box arrived to be seen. So we looked. And we saw Cheryl Cole’s tramp stamp tattoo – it’s a moth riding a scorpion into Princess Anne’s lawn – and Kerry Katona, who seems to have got the felt tips in the split with Mark ‘Crofty’ Croft and coloured in her back tattoo of his name in black ink. Yeah, why not orange and make it blend in..?
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
BBC TV Host Chris Addison Encourages Islamists To Murder George Bush: HIGNFY Jumps The Shark
ON tonight’s Have I Got New For You, actor Chris Addison looked at a photo of George W Bush and his father George Bush and offered:
“Where’s a Yemini printer cartridge when you need one.”
Before this comment on how good it would be to see two ex presidents of this country’s biggest ally murdered by Islamists, the guest host had been making fun of Republicans for being “rabid Right Win… banshees“– while failing to highlight any stupid, gun toting Democrats.
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Genghis Khan Proves That Mass Murder Can Be Good For The Environment
GENGHIS Khan was an eco-warrior. While we make do with Genghis Porritt, Genghis Meacher, Genghis Sandra Kanck and Genghis Curtis, the Mongols had it good. Julia Pongratz is lead boffin at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. Says she:
“We found that during the short events such as the Black Death and the Ming Dynasty collapse, the forest re-growth wasn’t enough to overcome the emissions from decaying material in the soil. But during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion… there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon.”
Where the hell is a massacre when you need one?
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Richard Keys: The Loose Men Audition Tape
RICHARD Keys still has a job at Sky Sports. Andy Gray, his chum has gone, that fellow Grand Master of Football Chess. Had only they been women talking about stupid men on Loose Women, or two wise housewives on an advert for a cleaning product that those idiotic men cannot fathom out, they’d have been ok.
Anyhow, without further ado, here is Richard Keys chatting with the lads about Jamie Redknapp’s former lover:
Stoopid men:
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Taco Bell Beef Is 64% Vegetarian: Plan To Wean Americans Off Meat Well Advanced
THE lawsuit levelled against Taco Bell in Montgomery, Alabama, alleges that the company uses “false advertising” on its menu and in its advertisements. The claim is that the beef on sale is not beefy enough. Indeed, a look at the Taco Bell beef box – labelled Taco Meat Filling – reveals a list of typically non-cow ingredients (unless cows have been injected with this stuff to reduce processing costs). That beef is 36% beef:
Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats, soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin, soybean oil, garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide, natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
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Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (5)
Was Piers Morgan Right About British Soldiers Abusing Iraqi Prisoners?
PIERS Morgan, currently on US TV knocking them dead with his interviewing on CNN,, is the subject of a correction from the Associated Press:
In a Jan. 6 story, The Associated Press reported CNN anchor Piers Morgan’s claim that his interview with then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown turned the tide of Gordon’s election campaign in his favor. While Brown got a boost in the polls after the interview, the story should have noted that he subsequently lost the 2010 election to a Conservative Party-led coalition.
One thing not being apologised for is Morgan’s relationship with the “fake” photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers that hastened his exit from the Daily Mirror.
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Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
Joanna Yeates: Papers Debate Vincent Tabak’s Uncertain Chin And Paul Vermeij Reacts
JOANNA YEATES: Vincent Tabak – can the press agree on even the most simple of facts? No. Vincent Tabak’s brief, Paul Cook, will apply for bail at the Crown Court today.
The case is on the front page of the Mirror:
“JO ACCUSED: GIVE ME BAIL”
The Sun:
“Parents shun Jo suspect”
And the Star:
“Jo suspect in freedom plea today”
The Sun hears a source supply some speculation in light of news that some DNA from saliva was found on the victim’s breasts:
“The fact that DNA samples have been found on her bare body could well mean whoever murdered Jo tried to sexually assault her before hand.”
But Mr Tabak has not been charged with sexual assault.
Meanwhile, Krissy Storrar was in court for the Mirror. She sees Mr Tabak’s “maroon” top:
Clean-shaven, 6ft 4ins Tabak was flanked by an interpreter, when he was asked by the clerk: “You are Vincent Tabak, is that correct?
Brian Flynn and John Coles were in court for the Sun:
THE man accused of murdering Jo Yeates appeared in court yesterday looking pale and unkempt – and wearing borrowed glasses.
The Express was in court:
Tabak, 32, unshaven and dressed in a bright red knitted jumper and navy trousers, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address during a five-minute hearing at Bristol Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
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Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
Penguins Spread Gay Epidemic Says Daily Mail
MELANIE Phillips wants to talk about the gays. She wants to warn you about fraternising with gay penguins.
Here’s a question shortly coming to an examination paper near you. What have mathematics, geography or science to do with homosexuality?
Anyone who is good at them is gay? Heterosexuals are better at history, English and French? Of course we need to see the data, but that’s our hunch. People who get a C grade or better (surely worse? – ed) at GCSE Greek are bisexual. Fact. Go on…
For, mad as this may seem, schoolchildren are to be bombarded with homosexual references in maths, geography and science lessons as part of a Government-backed drive to promote the gay agenda.
In geography, for example, they will be told to consider why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities.
To get a job at the BBC? Because all gays are born in the countryside, which makes you gay; and in the city the gays can be more easily bombed by Nazis and the Taliban? But the best bit is yet to come. We talk, of course, of penguins:
In science, they will be directed to animal species such as emperor penguins and sea horses, where the male takes a lead role in raising its young.
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Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Andy Gray And Richard Keys Present Chessboard Football On Sky Sports
ANDY Gray and Richard Keys are football’s brains, who have made it their life’s work to understand the offside rule. To the casual or drunk fan, the offside rule may be pathetically simple to grasp – easy enough even, say, for a Wayne Rooney or one of new wave of TV pundits like Jamie Redknapp – “There’s no argument, Anelka is arguably in the form of his life” – to understand.
But Gray and Keys want football to be bigger. They toil at the coal-face of TV broadcasting to make the world’s simplest game appear complicated and high-tec. And so it is our proud privilege to introduce Sky Sports new feature Chessboard Football. The pitch will be split into 64 equal sized squares, with Keys and Gray slowing the action down to explain each move. They will then debate what might have happened and what could have happened, taking the viewer through each permeation to its glorious or tragic * outcome.
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Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (16)
Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak Is The Pink Panther Killer?
JOANNA YEATES: Vincent Tabak – he of the iffy Facebook photos – has been charged with her murder. The press cannot comment on the case. So, it’s time to go for the girlfriend. Tanja Morson, 34. She is the Sun’s “US-born blonde”. Tabak is the Sun’s: “Dubbed ‘Pink Panther’ by pals for his love of Inspector Clouseau.”
Reality takes a back seat as the tabloids create personas for the main players. Even the most plain facts get distorted as the verge where Joanna Yeates’s body was found became the Mail’s ditch, a tabloid truth repeated in the Sun.
Chris Jefferies got the Full Robert Murat in a media that painted him as some kind of blue-haired potential paedo serial killer. He’s still on police bail.
Such is the race for news and exclusives that the Mirror and Star have both renamed Joanna Yeates “Joanne” on their front pages. This is what happens when you reduce the victim to status of Our Jo.
And, as is the way with many big cases these days – Madeleine McCann; Shrien Dewani – there is a role for a media handler. The Sun reports:
Yesterday the family hired PR man Paul Vermeij as their spokesman. He said: “The family much sympathises with the relatives of the victim.”
Hiring a PR seems sensible, given the voracious nature of a the media.
The Sun leads with:
“GIRLFRIEND: I STAND BY JO ACCUSED”
She says “I didn’t shop him”.
The Mirror leads with:
“COPS SPOKE TO GIRLFRIEND BEFORE ARREST”
You can fill in the blanks between those headlines. And meet The Tabaks:
Dr Cora Tabak, Vincent’s sister:
“His girlfriend Tanja is upset and shocked. The rumours that they have separated are not true. They are still very much together. She’s very concerned for him.”
Marcel Tabak, Vincent’s brother:
“It is nonsense. He has been made a scapegoat. The police have panicked.”
Tanja’s mother, Elisabeth:
“We saw what happened to the landlord and don’t want to see that happen to our lovely Vincent.”
Was he begainc unusually?
An assistant at the small community shop said he was a regular customer, adding: “We used to see him all the time. “He seemed completely fine that evening. He obviously had no idea what was about to happen to him. It was quite a shock when we heard that he had been arrested.”
Posted: 24th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
The Secret Science Of Sexual Attraction In Poland (Not Newcastle): Photos
YOU cannot argue with the science: why men notice women who flash the flesh in winter more than they notice women who do the same in the summer:
Women’s bare flesh in winter is a bigger turn-on for men, says a new research.
To reach the conclusion, a group of male subjects were asked, at different times of the year, to rate photos of women. They gave their highest scores in the winter and autumn, and their lowest scores in the summer.
Researchers at University of Wroclaw in Poland who carried out the experiment believe the seasonal variation may have an impact on mate choice and on levels of adultery.
There is no clear explanation for the variation, but the researchers say one theory is that fewer female bodies are on display in the winter, so the rarity makes them more attractive. *
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Posted: 23rd, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3)
Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak Was Caught On Twitter
JOANNA YEATES: Vincent Tabak has been charged with the murder of Joanna Yeates. And that is Joanna Yeates. After weeks of trying to take ownership of the story, the Sunday Mirror joins the Daily Star is renaming Joanna Yeates “Joanne”.
Read: Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak’s Facebook Photo Is A Gift
To the Sun – the only red-top not to try to change the dead women’s name – she remains “Our Jo”.
As for news, the Express publishes its brief interview with Mr Tabak:
“I only come back here at weekends for now with all the upset. I wasn’t here on the night she went missing, I was away and I don’t know anyone who saw or heard anything. It’s very upsetting that something like this has happened. This is a nice, safe, friendly area.
“The feeling around here is not a nice one now, it’s as if the area has been blighted by what happened. We are all very sad about it, and although I didn’t know Miss Yeates, I am deeply saddened by what happened.”
And what of the case? Who tipped off the police?
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Posted: 23rd, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Tony Blair Should Get An Oscar: The Actor Plays A Chilcot Inquiry
TONY Blair is talking about Iraq again. He’s trying to explaining why he took the country to war. Grease paint. Lights. Action…
Time perhaps for a little blunt and direct talking.
Can Anorak nominate Westminster’s greatest Thespian for a Golden Globe, Bafta and an Oscar?
In an ideal world he could collect them all just before the War Crimes Tribunal he should be facing.
During his recall to the Sir John Chilcot Iraq War inquiry he said he “of course” regrets the loss of life. The loss of British and Allied troops, friendly Iraqis and even the the non-friendly ones.
He was booed for that by the grieving parents of slain servicemen. Relatives who are demanding answers to still unasked questions.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak Is No Robert Murat But He Might Be A Voyeur
JOANNA YEATES: Vincent Tabak is still helping the police with their enquires. He has not been charged with any crime. But he is front-page news – although this time the media is far more circumspect than in its treatment of Chris Jefferies. But can they amplify the whispers?
Police cannot questions Mr Tabak forever. They have until tonight to continue questioning him.
Meanhwile, the press focus on Mr Tabak’s lover, Tanja Morson.
The Mail leads with news that Mr Tabak had “split with lover”. An unnamed source tell us:
“The last time I saw her [Tanja] was around September. I assumed that they had split up as I hadn’t seen her for so long.”
Assumption is front-page fact?
Another confirmed she had not seen Miss Morson for several months, while a third said: “I’d seen the man but I hadn’t really seen a girlfriend around in the weeks leading up to what happened.”
Can you confirm that you’ve not seen someone you only sometimes see in passing and don’t know?
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Posted: 22nd, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
ANORAK presents a collection of mugshots of tattooed faces and body parts for your study. Picture number 2 is a class act and one for the ladies; number 6 charts the progression of a career felon in facial alterations; number 7 is not someone you’d want to meet on a moonlit night; and our all time favourite is picture 12, which is a man with nose of trouble. Enjoy them all…
Posted: 21st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (23)
Lancashire School Children Trauma As Headteacher Says World War Has Broken Out
MIKE Richards uses the morning assembly at St Mary’s RC, Bacup, Lancashire, to tell the primary school’s student body that World War 3 has broken out.
Students are taken to a cellar. They hear an air raid siren. A firework explodes.
Thankfully after some weeping, wailing and perhaps wetting, at .30pm Mr Richards confirmed that war was over.
Says Mr Richards:
“We were doing World War Two as a topic and we saw advice from schools that basically suggested that we introduced the topic as if it was really happening, which is what we did.”
How authentic do you want it, kids? Were evacuees placed on buses to the country to live with strangers? Did a man in a black shirt single out the Jews and march them off to the kitchens? Did you fracture their legs to simulate rickets?
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Posted: 21st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Gifs Of The Week: The Get Her
ANORAK brings you the best Gifs of The Week. If you see any Gifs send them to our usual address. We love gifs, bit-sized slices of life. Enjoy:
Police Recruit Scouts With School Records Of Homophobic And Racial Abuse
BOY Scouts are being seconded to help the police in their mission to patronise every motorist in the land. Then they start on the skateboarders, rollerskaters and pram-faced buggy drivers. Once you’ve got them into a uniform, try to keep them there.
The 1st Shipston Scout pack wants that community challenge badge, and to get it they will learn how to fire a laser speed gun before joining police community support officers on duty.
At traps laid out at Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, the scouts trapped 24 drivers in the 30mph zone. One driver was doing a mad 36mph.
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Posted: 21st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
