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Transfer balls: Gotze wants Liverpool, Gotze snubs Liverpool

In March, Liverpool were “confident of signing Mario Gotze”. So said the Guardian. Gotze has played for Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund, before he left the second best team in Germany … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Harriet Harman: naked Kim Kardashian is pioneering but topless Page 3 Girls are fodder

 

See if you can fathom what it is Harriet Harman, the Labour former deputy leader, is saying. Appearing on ITV morning telly to talk about women’s issues, Harman turned to nudity, … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2016 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Daily Mail scare stories: antibiotics and depression

 

It’s Health Tuesday in the Mail. Scare Story highlights are:

Page 47: “Just one court of antibiotics may raise risk of depression.” The thinking is if you take antibiotics, you cause … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Vardy can join Manchester United for £20m, Chelsea for £25m and everyone for £30m

 

Jamie Vardy might not be at Leicester City next season. The newspapers reason that any top player, which Vardy certainly is, will want to play for a bigger club. All newspaper overlook … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports, Tabloids | Comment (1)

Muirfield women ban: it’s only sexist for girls

Why anyone plays golf is beyond me. A friend interested in joining a club was put off by what he called a strong whiff of anti-semitism around the place. He … (read more)

Posted: 24th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comment

Manchester United balls: ‘I knew Van Gaal would and wouldn’t be sacked,’ says Phil Neville

 

 

Manchester United have sacked Louis Van Gaal. The decision seems to have been taken months ago, although no-one thought to tell the Dutchman and Phil Neville, the former Man United defender … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2016 | In: Sports, TV & Radio | Comment

Lost in translasion: socks

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Posted: 23rd, May 2016 | In: The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United hire Mourinho, Ibrahimovich and the fear factor

So José Mourinho is the new Manchester United manager. Well, so say all the newspapers. The Guardian says the former Chelsea manger – twice-sacked by the Blues – will be … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Debating the value of Birmingham University’s black studies course

 

Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology at Birmingham City University, wants to talk about studying black subjects. Birmingham City University has opened a black studies university course. The black experience in Britain is … (read more)

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

UKIP wins working class voters Labour elitists ignore

The Guardian states the obvious:
Labour’s Future, Why Labour Lost in 2015 and How it Can Win Again, to be published this week, says the party is losing socially conservative voters … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, May 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Madeleine McCann: Sharon Osbourne trolls the McCanns

Madeleine McCann: a look at the missing child in the news.

The Sunday Mirror leads with the child it calls “Maddie”. The headline thunders: “Sharon’s Shocking Rants Over Missing Maddie.”

Foul-mouthed, pixie-voiced … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, May 2016 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Van Gaal sacked, Mourinho appointed and Manchester United are unchanged

Sky News are reporting that Manchester United have offered Jose Mourinho the Manchester United job and the former Chelsea manager has accepted. Not all that good news for current Old Trafford … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comments (3)

Is Oxfam’s tax planning just tax avoidance?

When Oxfam began to bemoan ‘tax avoidance’, it was inevitable some would cast their eyes on the charity’s tax affairs. Oxfam is hot on everyone paying there ‘fair share’, having … (read more)

Posted: 20th, May 2016 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

J.K. Rowling: Donald Trump’s ‘offensive and bigoted’ comments make us all free

J.K. Rowling was speaking at the PEN America Literary Gala & Free Expression Awards:
Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most … (read more)

Posted: 18th, May 2016 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal keep Walcott by selling him to West Ham or Chelsea

Transfer balls: It’s been a busy few days for Arsenal’s Theo Walcott. In today’s Daily Mirror, readers are told, “Theo’s not Gunner go”. News is that Walcott will be told … (read more)

Posted: 18th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports, Tabloids | Comments (2)

Boris Johnson, Marina Wheeler’s ‘drunken clinch’ and sex for Brexit

 

Boris Johnson’s wife Marina Wheeler is the victim of a “sex smear”, says the Sun. The attack on Marina is “designed to derail his battle for Britain to leave the EU”.

You … (read more)

Posted: 18th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Woman has no idea how baby opossum ended up in her toilet

 

How did the baby opossum get into a San Diego, California, woman’s toilet? She says she has no idea how the creature got there. San Diego County Animal Services don’t believe the opossum … (read more)

Posted: 18th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment (1)

Woman’s Obituary: ‘I died rather than vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump’

Marry Anne Noland’s obituary was published in Virginia’s The Richmond Times. She’d rather die than vote for Clinton or Trump:

 

 
NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for … (read more)

Posted: 18th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Greedy Manchester United paint mascots blue to please sponsors

At tonight’s match between Manchester United and Bournemouth, three MUFC mascots were painted blue as part of promotion of club’s commercial partner 20th Century Fox’s new X-Men movie.

 

 

Is there anything … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Rangers kill rescued Yellowstone bison saved by fifth graders

Heard the one about the baby bison looking for love in Yellowstone National Park?
Karen Richardson of Victor, Idaho, was one of several parents chaperoning a group of fifth-graders on a field trip to … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)

Transfer balls: can you identify the Arsenal ‘ace’ on his way to West Ham?

Transfer balls: a look at desperate reporting. And it’s not just in print and on websites the newspapers can spin clicks from utter balls. On Twitter, the Sun has news of … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Ozil bombs Arsenal

 

Transfer balls: The Daily Express has news for Arsenal fans: “Mesut Ozil Bombshell: Star blasts lack of teamwork, contract talks put on hold.”

Bombshell! Blasts! Is Ozil shooting down the Gunners? … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

No, Manchester United’s David Beckham is not like Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere

What need of facts, Alan Shearer? No much. Alan writes of Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere in the Sun:
“The debate might well be whether Marcus Rashford can force his way into the final … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Topless top policewoman suspended over ‘who has best breasts’ row

 

When you see the police and those pointed helmets does you mind wonder to breasts? A Greater Manchester Police officer has been suspended after an alleged row with another wooden top over … (read more)

Posted: 17th, May 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

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