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Plastic bag tax makes a pigs ear from an avoska

Plastic bags. you pays loads money for your shopping then are asked to cough up  surcharge to carry the stuff. Tim Newman:
I think the behaviour that governments and the lobbyists … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

John Lennon demands a return to the Great British blue passport in the Sun

“TIME to bing back the Great British passport,” demands the Sun. It’s front-page news. The paper says the blue passport is a “symbol of the UK regaining sovereignty from the EU”.
We … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, August 2016 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Democrat convention: woman catches fire stomping on burning US Flag

Meanwhile…at the Democrat Party’s convention, a woman stomping on a burning US flag caught fire.

A protester just caught on fire trying to stomp on a burning flag. #DNCinPHL #DemsInPhilly #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/tgnf5NqNmW
— … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, August 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Armed men and a baby prepare for Doomsday in Kentucky with Walmart goods and marijuana

First the good news: there will be plenty of supplies to eat when the world ends. Now the less good news: only Walmart produce can survive armageddon. We know this because police spotted … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, August 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: teasing Paul Pogba says his Manchester United medical was ‘nonsense’

Paul Pogba Watch: It’s been 12 days since the Daily Mirror told us Manchester United had “signed” Paul Pogba. Today Sky Sports has more news: “Paul Pogba prepares to fly to England to … (read more)

Posted: 1st, August 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment (1)

What it’s really like to play for Arsenal: the player’s story

When Arsenal signed Kim Kallstrom in January 2014 it looked like no big deal. The journeyman Swedish midfielder was only on loan from Spartak Moscow. He arrived nursing a bad back injury. … (read more)

Posted: 1st, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Key Posts, Sports | Comment

Police arrest tambourine playing man who wrote ‘The Matrix Has U’ in sand

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man, take your instrument and **** off, or else. That’s the message British police gave a man they arrested after he was seen playing a tambourine to watching … (read more)

Posted: 1st, August 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Drugs baron’s life in a luxurious suite of prison cells

Londoners in search of affordable housing can head to Paraguay – just remember to take a huge stash of cocaine in your suitcase on departure. With any luck you too will be … (read more)

Posted: 1st, August 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Lidl Britain crisis: nuts might not contain nuts

The country is in crisis. The Telegraph reports on a consumer panic:
German discounter Lidl is removing its brand of fruit yoghurts and honey peanuts from the shelves because it fails to … (read more)

Posted: 1st, August 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | Comment

16% of Hispanic voters would vote for Harambe over Clinton and Trump

Public Policy Polling finds that 5 percent of US voters would vote for Harambe if the dead gorilla stood to be President of the United States. Among Hispanic voters, the figure rises to 16%.

You will recall … (read more)

Posted: 31st, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer Balls: Paul Pogba takes his Manchester United medical at Universal Studios

Paul Pogba Watch: It’s been 11 days since the Daily Mirror told us Manchester United had “signed” Paul Pogba. Today the Metro says Pogba remains a “Man United target”.

The Telegraph says “Paul … (read more)

Posted: 31st, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Public shaming: Adam Cripe v ‘furious woman’ at En Salon hairdressers in Escondido, California

To Escondido, California, where Adam Cripe is displeased with the $18 hairstyle he got at En Salon. “It was so terrible, I went home and I shaved my head,” says Cripe.  At … (read more)

Posted: 31st, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)

Ansbach bomb mystery solved: why the victim did it

When a man armed with a bomb blew himself up outside a music festival in Germany, the media went into action. Why had he done it?

Reuters went into action: “Syrian man denied … (read more)

Posted: 31st, July 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Paul Pogba signs Manchester United shirt and is better than Messi

Paul Pogba Watch: 10 days since the Daily Mirror told us Manchester United had “clinched” Paul Pogba, The Telegraph says: “Paul Pogba drops MAJOR hint he’s joining Man Utd.”

A hint? Sky Sports explains:
Paul … (read more)

Posted: 30th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Jeremy Corbyn flying pig news: ‘Labour can win snap General election under my leadership’

The Guardian creates the world-class clickbait headline: “Jeremy Corbyn: Labour could win snap general election.”

But wait a moment. Did Corbyn actually says it? Does he think Labour can win the … (read more)

Posted: 30th, July 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal unwillingly bid £35 for Alexandre Lacazette

Transfer balls: the BBC website is pretty much a newspaper the British are forced to pay for. And like newspapers, the BBC writes utter drivel about football transfers. This week the … (read more)

Posted: 30th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Brexit: trawling for racism proves prejudice against the white working class

The Indy has news that Britain is in the grip of an explosion of post-Brexit race crimes.

 

 

The website “reveals: the “shocking scale of racist hate since the Brexit vote”. After “painstaking” … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comments (8)

Transfer balls: ‘poor’ Arsenal get Mahrez ‘in next few days’ and chase Mustafi

On Apr 28, 2016, the Daily Express reported that Liverpool FC “are sending an official to close a deal for Valencia defender Shkodran Mustafi at the weekend”. The weeekend came. … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment (1)

Transfer balls: nine says after Manchester United ‘clinch’ Paul Pogba his agent says they haven’t

Paul Pogba Watch: Nine days since the Daily Mirror stated that Manchester United had “signed” Paul Pogba, we read on the BBC that Jose Mourinho is “planning a clearout at United with nine … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Daily Express: ‘Correction – Amazing things we get back if we leave EU’

The Daily Express is no fan of the European Union. Fair enough. Most of us aren’t. But the Express made a few reporting errors it now regrets. On 20 May 2016 the … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Guardian writer moans about her holiday ‘from hell’ in the super-expensive Hamptons

Is the Guardian beyond parody? In “The highway to summer hell leads straight through the Hamptons” Emma Brockes moans about holidaying in the exclusive enclave. Damned is she forced to holiday at one … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Police find seven grams of cocaine in naked man’s foreskin

Dick helmet

Joshua Hare, 24, was by the Homebase DIY megastore in Salisbury, Wiltshire, when he was arrested.

In the course of a search a white substance “emerged” from Hare’s penis. Police tests … (read more)

Posted: 29th, July 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal: Wenger makes way for Eddie Howe because the Press are clueless

Is Arsenal Wenger going to sign a new contract and extend his tenure as Arsenal manager? The BBC leads with that AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe is “well-placed to replace Arsene Wenger at … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Key Posts, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Don’t ban sugar just force the fat to run to the shops

Oi, fatso! David Aaronovitch has a plan to win the “obesity war”. He writes in the Times:
It’s not enough to fiddle about with food labelling and a distant sugar tax. Bans … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Council of Europe outlaws Scottish government’s anti-family fascist plan

To Scotland, where the council of Europe has outlawed a local fascist plot. The Scottish Government wanted teachers, State-approved workers, doctors – whoever – to treat all other parents and guardians as suspects. 

Since 2014, … (read more)

Posted: 28th, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

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