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Saudi censors turn woman a in swimming pool advert into a ball

Saudi censors have been busy adapting an advert selling a swimming pool. The man is dressed. The children are ready for school. And the woman’s been turned into a Winnie the … (read more)

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Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment

Vladimir Putin is playing things by the book: this book

Is Vladimir Putin following a book, namely The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia by Aleksandr Dugin, aka “Putin’s Brain”. You can read it on Wikipedia:
The book declares that “the battle … (read more)

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Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: Books, Politicians | Comment

Blaming YouTube for terrorism paints the killers as victims

Worse than video nasties, scourge of the 1980s, sex and trolls are YouTube videos possessed of a power to radicalise the viewer, transforming a normal bloke surfing the web for … (read more)

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Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: News, Reviews | Comment (1)

Fox News apologizes for Kate Hopkins and Nigel Farage’s debate on Muslim internment camps

Former UKIP leader and Donald Trump pal Nigel Farage and to-deadline media shocker Katie Hopkins have managed to achieve a notable media milestone: they’ve shocked Fox & Friends hots into an apology. Hopkins … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer balls: Kylian Mbappe goes from £17,000 to £114m as Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United get dizzy

Transfer balls: there’s lots of chatter about Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United bidding for Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe. The numbers are staggering – and mostly guesswork.

£17,000 – “Chelsea could have signed Kylian Mbappe … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Dominoes falling show us how changes happen

Something about butterflies and things getting bigger:

No, me neither. But I like the video … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment

After London Bridge: we’ve had ‘Enough is Enough’ of Jeremy Corbyn (paper review)

The London Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks – how do the tabloids cover the massacre? All share the same news of heroic deeds, horrific injuries and barbarity. But their different treatment … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

After London: Should we be like Texas and arm the police?

Should London be more like Texas? One writer makes the comparison:
In the heart of the nation’s capital, at near-maximum terror alert, with the densest national concentration of armed officers, the … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

After London And Manchester let’s be generous, audacious, passionate and free

When France was attacked by Islamist extremists, journalist Bertrand Dicale wrote for the Bataclan website. His words resonate in light of the attacks in Manchester and London. Last night at One … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: News, Reviews | Comment

Jeremy Corbyn ‘looks forward to an asteroid wiping out humanity’

In 2004,Jeremy Corbyn was one of three signatories on an anti-human motion.

Early day motion 1255

Session: 2003-04
Date tabled: 21.05.2004
Primary sponsor: Banks, Tony

Sponsors:
That this House is appalled, but barely surprised, at the … (read more)

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Posted: 5th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comment

Tory MP tweets: ‘Vote Conservative for strong and stable leadershit’

James Conwyn MP, Conservative Candidate for Earlingford Abbey, tweets:

#VoteConservative if you want strong & stable leadershit.
— James Conwyn MP (@MP_JamesConwyn) June 2, 2017
… (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Transfer balls: Griezmann didn’t ‘snub’ United he stayed loyal to Atletico

Transfer balls: After all the chatter and scoops about Antoine Griezmann agreeing to join Manchester United for £280,000 a week, the France striker is staying at Atletico Madrid. The Spanish … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

After London Bridge: the geezer who ran with his pint didn’t spill a drop

After the London attack: Geezer Watch:

People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn’t spilling a drop. God Bless the Brits! pic.twitter.com/ceeaH0XxeX
— Howard Mannella (@hmannella) 3 June 2017

At £6 … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment

After London Bridge and Manchester: Douglas Adams was right about the internet

After London Bridge, the news is that there will be crackdown on the internet. Freedom of speech must be curtailed. Encryption must be done away with.

Author Douglas Adams go it. … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comment

After London Bridge: MSNBC puts terror attack at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton

In the unseemly haste to be first with the ‘breaking news’, MSNBC says the terror attack on London Bridge and nearby Borough market took place in… Luton. There was an … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment

CIA go home: Donald Trump gets his London Bridge news from the web

If only Trump had access to the best intelligence services in the world and didn’t have to get his news from the Drudge Report. CIA go home, the web has … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)

London Bridge attack: London fights back but democracy capitulates

“We were throwing bottles, chairs, stools, anything we could get. A stool hit one of them on the head,” says Gerard Vowls, an eye-witness to the attack on London Bridge … (read more)

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Posted: 4th, June 2017 | In: News, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

How to survive Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Nuclear Meltdown’

Don’t panic! Jeremy Corbyn might trigger a “Nuclear Meltdown” should the leader of the hollowed out Labour Party make it into Number 10, but surviving the atomic holocaust is just a … (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comment

Ken Loach for Jeremy Corbyn: vote Theresa May if you hate your kids

Ken Loach’s ad for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is… Well, it’s incredible. Theresa May stars in the Milk Snatcher II:

Brutal response 😂 (wait for it)
⏩ https://t.co/aBfHF3Y85D#GE2017 #BBCQT pic.twitter.com/468E3sMaqv
— Momentum (@PeoplesMomentum) June … (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

The screaming abdabs: Anthony Burgess’s Dictionary of Slang

Anthony Burgess,

Manchester-born writer and academic Anthony Burgess began work on a dictionary of slang – “the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted … (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment

BBC admits to ‘election rigging’

Finally! The BBC has admitted what so many suspected: they’ve been ‘rigging” the election:

Astonishing that the BBC are so blatant about it pic.twitter.com/tJVTMJbndG— Andrew McFadyen (@apmcfadyen) June 2, 2017
… (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment

Idiot throws glove at Tower of London guard: Beefeater responds in style

To the Tower of London, where a woman has dropped her glove close to one of the serving soldiers who guard the place. Did she toss the glove to see what the soldier … (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Royal Family, Strange But True | Comment

Parent’s Kiss: How to retrieve small things stuck up a child’s nose

How do you get small items from inside a child’s nose, where they’ve become stuck? Beth Skwarecki, You perfore the Parent’s Kiss:
Step 1: Use your finger to close the nostril that … (read more)

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Posted: 3rd, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment