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Police mistake doughnuts for methamphetamine – arrest man

Speed kills

If there is one thing a cop should know it is Driving Whilst Black is a crime  what is and what is not doughnut material. But … (read more)

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

Transfer balls: seven says after Manchester United ‘clinch’ Paul Pogba Real ‘gazump’ the deal

Paul Pogba Watch: Seven days since the Daily Mirror stated that Manchester United had “signed” Paul Pogba, we read on the BBC that the player’s agent, Mino Raiola, “has cancelled Juventus and France midfielder Paul … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United balls: Mourinho gets another ‘One’

One Watch – a look at mainstream-media mentions of Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho being ‘something One.

The Independent’s Mark Ogden says:
Jose Mourinho became the ‘Generous One’ on Manchester United’s flight to … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Westminster paedophiles: the Welsh government’s conspiracy theories

The National Assembly for Wales has a few words on the VIP paedophiles.

You will recall, no doubt, how the story of a ‘ring’ of murderous Westminster paedophiles had abused children … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Father Jacques Hamel: the front pages and a Daesh murder mystery

How do you report the murder of Father Jacques Hamel in a Normandy church?

The International Catholic News Weekly reports: “The nun – who did not want to be named – told … (read more)

Posted: 27th, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal, Riyad Mahrez and the Olympian task of replacing Gnabry

Transfer Balls spots this utter drivel in the Daily Telegraph. Arsenal’s Serge Gnabry has been called up to Germany’s Olympic football team. Lest you suppose news that a bit-part Arsenal player … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Broadsheets, Sports | Comment

Brexit: 98% of Daily Express reders want Article 50 triggered – 2% want Princess Diana return

The Daily Express brings news of a new poll: “98 per cent say NO to EU deal.”

 

98% of whom?
A NEW Daily Express online poll has revealed that 98 per cent … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Daily Mail scare story: dad gives you cancer

The Daily Mail has a new cancer scare story. The headline suggests that dads give their children cancer. No, not through their genes, rather through their guts:
Junk food-loving fathers raise … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Sports Direct: human rights and Mike Ashley’s legal redress

Former BBC staffer Paul Mason is making some sort of point about Sports Direct and Newcastle United FC tycoon Mike Ashley and his underlings:
What is striking, when you consider the … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: 6 days after Manchester United sign Paul Pogba Real Madrid make their move

 

Paul Pogba Watch: Six days since the Daily Mirror stated that Manchester United had “signed” Paul Pogba, we read on Sky Sports:
Manchester United transfer rumours: Paul Pogba deal – on or off?
So … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Bernie Ecclestone’s mother-in-law has been kidnapped in Sao Paulo

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone’s mother-in-law has been kidnapped in Sao Paulo, not far from the race track:
According to Brazilian magazine Veja, Aparecida Schunck, 67, was taken on Friday in the … (read more)

Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Mick Jagger and David Bowie perform Dancing In The Street without music

Happy birthday, Mick Jagger, born on this day 1943. Here is the Rolling Stones singer performing Dancing in The Street with David Bowie.

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Posted: 26th, July 2016 | In: Celebrities, Music | Comment

Transfer balls: 5 days after Manchester United sign Paul Pogba Juventus up their price

Paul Pogba Watch: It’s been five days since the Daily Mirror reported that Manchester United had “clinched” Paul Pogba. Five days on from that scoop, the Guardian writes:
Juventus tell United … (read more)

Posted: 25th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Mahrez ‘agrees’ Arsenal move in a Chelsea shirt

Transfer balls: Arsenal fans reeling from yesterdays BBC news that the club are not spending big money can today read the BBC news of a “£75m double deal to bring Leicester … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Cambridge man drinks six pints, passes out on shopping centre’s glass roof

Isaac Moore is casting a shadow over the Grand Arcade shopping centre in Cambridge.

 

 

Peterborough Today says Moore scarfed six pints – he had scored a new job (as what we’re not … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Free Speech: Australia’s ABC fails to understand comically

Thanks to Tim Blair for this wonderful moment in the debate over Free Speech and Me Speech. On Australia’s ABC idiots, the talk if on the “negative effects of free … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal spend big, buy the Leicester model and wait

Arsenal are having a tough time. Yeah, really. The BBC says Arsenal are “braced” for complaints from fans after “warning them not to expect expensive summer signings.”

That would be the … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Liverpool balls: Danny Ings catches banter but Aki Riihilahti was funny

Liverpool FC striker Danny Ings writes exclusively for the Liverpool website. In case you missed it, “For the duration of the Reds’ tour of the USA, Danny Ings will be … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2016 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Munich Massacre: blaming Brexit

The Munich massacre, the Press are calling it. A Iranian-German nutter has murdered many a German shopping mall. Who can we blame. They know. We can blame ourselves:

 

 

The New York … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Iranian-German ‘wanker’ commits mass murders in Munich

A man has murdered 9 people at Munich’s Olympia shopping centre. The  killer, an 18-year-old German-Iranian dual national who lived in Munich, took his own life.

Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae says, “The motive … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer Balls: Manchester United have not signed Paul Pogba

It’s been two days since the Mirror newspaper reported that Paul Pogba had signed for Manchester United. Today the BBC reports that Man United are “keen to sign” Paul Pogba.

Mourinho said of … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Vote for Melania Trump and reject the Clintons’ model marriage

Melania Trump is riding high on the news cycle. The critics says she’s a bit thick, unable even to speak for herself and is no way a role model. The New … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United sign Paul Pogba (but not everyone agrees)

The Daily Mirror says Manchester United have signed Paul Pogba for £100m. The Juventus and France midfielder will very soon be back at Manchester United, the club he left when … (read more)

Posted: 20th, July 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment (1)

Transfer balls: Arsenal meets Mr and Mrs Incardi and Turan turns

Transfer Balls: Is Mauro Icardi heading to Arsenal? Maybe. The Sun has news that the “Inter Milan star’s sexy wife and AGENT ” is in London to broker her husband’s £43m move … (read more)

Posted: 20th, July 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Plagiarism balls: Melania Trump is Joe Biden with better hair

So Melania Trump, wife of could-be US President Donald Trump, plagiarised words used by Michelle Obama, wife to current US President Barack Obama, in a speech to believers. Salon is … (read more)

Posted: 20th, July 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

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