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The French Election is a huge waste of paper

The French election are riding high on the news cycle. The field has narrowed into a straight fight between Front National’s Marine Le Pen and independent Emmanuel Macron. Round 2 will … (read more)

Posted: 24th, April 2017 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Technology | Comment

Dad dragged off plane for ‘sex trafficking’ his 3-year-old daughter

A man and his 3-year-old daughter on a United Airlines flight to the US from Mexico were taken from the plane. A passenger saw the pair and wrongly assumed the man was sex … (read more)

Posted: 24th, April 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Media Bias: Arsenal praise the referee but Manchester City are robbed

Media Balls: a look at biased football reporting. Today Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-1 to make it into the FA Cup final, where they will play Chelsea.

Should Manchester City have been awarded … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Canary Islands ferry tests out sea defences by ramming sea wall

How do you test sea defences? In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, you set the ferry to ramming speed and go for it:
Videos and photos of the … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Tires down a ski jump – alternative Olympic sports

 

With the UK’s olympic-sized Olympics budget under review – can we just embrace technology and go long on drugs and short on training? – Anorak’s on the look out for … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2017 | In: Sports, Strange But True | Comment

Madeleine McCann: seeking the man by The Dolphin

Madeleine McCann appears on two national newspapers front pages today. You can read more about the Mirror’s news on a top cop’s theories here.

 

 

So much for the opinion. What we who … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2017 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Madeleine McCann: five theories, three ex-coppers and 10 years of nothing

Madeleine McCann: A look at reporting on the missing child. It remains frenzied, speculative, lurid and light on news.

Daily Mail: “Did Madeleine McCann wander off and have an accident? Was … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, April 2017 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Emily Thornberry: ‘There are people who poo who create a lot of jobs’

Emily Thornberry, Labour MP and shadow Foreign Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn’s Cabinet of anyone who lives within walking distance of his Islington home, is on Radio 4. She says: “There are … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2017 | In: Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment

Labour’s party political broadcast showing indoctrinized Corbyn Kids backfires

Labour’s latest electoral move is to take a teacher and show her instructing her students that education is safe in Labour’s hands. She’s shown indoctrinating her seven to eight year … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2017 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

UKIP candidate delivers manifesto in the style of a Beat poem

UKIP candidate Gisela Allen has delivered her manifesto. Answering the question ‘Why do you want to be a councillor?” in Glasgow’s Garscadden/Scotstounhill ward, Gisela just lets it all pour out.

As … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2017 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

Caption writers protect the Easter Bunny from would-be Trump assassins and Elma Fudd

The President of the United States is on the LEFT.

 

 

“Excellent use of parentheses. Bravo caption writers.” tweets @Zoeparamour.

“Sometimes Breaking News comes at exactly the perfect moment” adds @Melissajpeltier.

 

 

Spotter: Twitter/@MelissaJPeltier & Twitter/@ZoeParamour … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, April 2017 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment

Nigerian spy chief had $43m dollars in his Lagos flat

Can it be that the bloke whose been emailing you all these years has been caught? Police in Nigeria have noticed Aoy Oke, the country’s National Intelligence Agency boss, after finding $43 … (read more)

Posted: 21st, April 2017 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Morata to Chelsea (if Arsenal let him leave)

Transfer Balls – fake news for football: The BBC says Chelsea “have reached an agreement” to sign striker Alvaro Morata, 24, from Real Madrid. The Beeb’s source is Spanish site … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Glasgow woman gives mouth to mouth to dying pigeon

To Glasgow, where a woman is trying to resuscitate a pigeon with mouth to mouth.

Meanwhile in Glasgow… #pigeonCPR pic.twitter.com/0zkUNguwwR
— Charlotte (@Charlismyname) April 18, 2017

@charlismyname spotted this ‘Glasgow kiss’ and tweeted that … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Tim Farron is the illiberal Liberal

Tim Farron is the LibDem’s leader. He’s an Evangelical Christian. Does he think gay sex is a mortal sin, a crime against God? Conservative MP and former deputy speaker Nigel … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Daily Mirror news trust: Arsenal and Theresa May are both for turning

How about this for wraparound newspaper cover. The Daily Mirror’s front page leads with Theresa May’s “U-turn”. Having said there would be no General Election before 202o, May has called one … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Politicians, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Fearless Girls: the marketing gimmick that mocks the bull

That Fearless Girl statue in Manhattan’s Financial District is terrific. It faces off against Arturo Di Modica’s Charging Bull. Greg Fallis has written a terrific blog post about the two … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Air Canada bumps young boy from overbooked flight

Someone give Macaulay Culkin a hose down and get John Hughes on the phone: Home Alone has a sequel. Cole Doyle, 10, was on his way to Costa Rica last month. … (read more)

Posted: 19th, April 2017 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment

Case against alleged Cornish pasty crimping Facebook ‘porn star’ collapses

When is a pastry crimper not a pasty crimper? Or to put it another way, can a porn star crimp pasties? The Daily Mail brings news of the “Cornish pasty … (read more)

Posted: 24th, March 2017 | In: Reviews | Comment

Madeleine McCann: a manhunt, a lifeline and a missing man

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child.

Daily Mirror (front page): ”Maddie Cops Hunt Worker At Resort.’ The now ‘ex-employee has ‘vanished’. Like the missing child, he just … (read more)

Posted: 13th, March 2017 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comment (1)

Madeleine McCann: just £85,000 left to find ‘Our Maddie’

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child. The Metropolitan Police continue to search for Madeleine McCann, the child who became the media’s ‘Our Maddie’.

 

 

Sunday Express (front page): ‘Madeleine … (read more)

Posted: 12th, March 2017 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comment

Celebrity Weed Farm: BGT dancer inspires new TV show

Remember Stavros Flatley, the chubby fella from Britain’s Got Talent, whose dance with his chubby son scored them a job on Sugar Free Farm with Ann Widdecombe, Alison Hammond and Gemma Collins, a … (read more)

Posted: 6th, March 2017 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

Sponsored Post: Casinos Revisited

Casinos revisited

Technology has brought about massive change for all forms of business, with the casino industry being absolutely no exception to this rule. An increasingly globalised world and the concomitant … (read more)

Posted: 21st, February 2017 | In: Online-PR | Comment

How Deli Alli escaped Manchester United and QPR to sign for Spurs

By now you’ll be wondering what Harry Redknapp has been up to? The resting manager is talking abut Spurs on BT Sport. Redknapp is aghast that now-one came in for Dele Alli … (read more)

Posted: 17th, February 2017 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Arsenal remain hopeful of beating Bayern

Arsenal were thrashed in the Champions’ League. Again. Tonked 5-1 by a lively Bayern Munich side, Arsenal were limper than a post-coitus slug. The reporting has been fierce, with much of the … (read more)

Posted: 16th, February 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

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