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First penis transplant let’s patients go larger

Thomas Manning, 64, who lost his penis to cancer has received a penis transplant. If you could get one, would you go larger?
Relatives of the donor involved in the first successful penis … (read more)

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

Manchester United: fan fury, Mourinho gets desperate and Van Gaal gets time

 

Jose Mourinho’s PR calls the Daily Mail, which dutifully produces the headline: “JOSE PSG TALKS – Manchester United must act NOW if they want Mourinho.”

From hammer-headed Dutchman Louis Van Gaal to … (read more)

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

Estate by Robert Clayton: buy the book, see the show, love the pictures

 

Robert Clayton’s Estate is now on display in a major solo exhibition at Four Corners, 121 Roman Road, London E2.

The exhibition also sees the launch of his new short film about the work … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Books, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Harry Redknapp, angry Newcastle fans, sunshine Spurs and Arsenal failures

A few days before Newcastle United fans hymned their team to a 5-1 thrashing of fancied Spurs, former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told his Evening Standard readers:
Angry Newcastle fans can … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment

Boris Johnson hails the EU as a ‘spectacular success’

In Boris Johnson’s 2014 book on Winston Churchill, the Brexit campaign leader talks of the “spectacular success” of Churchill’s idea of ‘EC, now EU in delivering “peace & prosperity”.

 

 

Whoopsie! As Churchill … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

SatNav directions send woman into a deep harbour (photos)

 

Do you trust machines? Would you buy a driverless car? To Tobermory, Ontario, Canada, where a 23-year-old woman who followed her car’s SatNav instructions ended up in a harbour.

Ontario Provincial Police say … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True, Technology | Comment

Dog walker finds ear in Warwickshire park: David Lynch is innocent

 

To a park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where a dog walker has found an ear lying on the grass. He calls Warwickshire Police. They explain:
“Police were called to reports of a human … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Naked Cuban arrested trying to flee US

To Miami International Airport, Florida, where a naked Ricardo Nogales, 47, is being arrested on a breach of security charge after he jumped the perimeter fence and entered the restricted airfield area.

Miami-Dade … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Jose Mourinho to Manchester United ‘in hours’

Transfer balls spots more tales of Jose Mourinho to Manchester United. The Star thunders: “Mourinho to Man Utd in hours.”

How many hours is unspecified by Luke Gardener, who made his prediction on May … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Heads will roll after Manchester United fake bomb fiasco

 

Manchester United v Bournemouth was called off yesterday. A suspect package was discovered at Old Trafford. The Telegraph tells the sorry tale:
A farcical security blunder led to Manchester United’s final Premier … (read more)

Posted: 16th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Happy 21st Arsenal: Newcastle thrash Spurs on #StTotteringhamsDay

At what point do Spurs fans give up? Going for the Premier League title just a few weeks ago, Spurs managed to implode at Chelsea and then play so lethargically and poorly … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Spurs | Comment

War Chest Watch: Manchester United, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal, Everton, Manchester City and Liverpool transfer budgets announced

 

As the Premier League season ends big media turns to transfer rumours. One issue is deciding how much each club has to spend on new players. With every club in … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Broadsheets, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment

Abortion 28, 24 or 20 weeks: who gets to choose?

Abortion is a serious issue. Pope usually have a view on it. The Mail reports:
Britain’s biggest maternity union has joined forces with abortion providers and radical feminists in an ‘extreme’ campaign to … (read more)

Posted: 15th, May 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Student debt rises as students invest in their own education

On Yahoo! news (via Press release) of student loans and student debt:

Eight in 10 U.S. adults with student loans (81 percent) say they made financial or personal sacrifices because of … (read more)

Posted: 13th, May 2016 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal offer Dortmund £33m for Mönchengladbach’s Xhaka

 

Transfer balls: a look a dire reporting on football rumours. Today the Indy reports on Arsenal:
Arsenal have made an official £33.8m offer for Borussia Dortmund midfielder Granit Xhaka after moving … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Broadsheets, Sports | Comment

Newspaper uses noose to illustrate suicide story

How much is too much? The Hindustan Times notes:
A 31-year-old assistant commandant-rank trainee Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room at the paramilitary force’s training … (read more)

Posted: 11th, May 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | Comment

Leicester players mistake Ranieri for Manchester United hair dryer Alex Ferguson

The Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel has a statement and a question for Manchester United and Leicester City fans:

 

Is it something to do with Fergie’s famous hair dryer?

 

 

No. Was it a … (read more)

Posted: 9th, May 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Met Police in Greenwich monster the homeless in classic display of stupidity

Idiotic police alert in West Greenwich, London. The Met’s “SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS” gang – “LOCAL POLICE, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE” – are asking a question: “Should you give money to homeless people?”

Your own money: yes. … (read more)

Posted: 9th, May 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Government wants you to carry ID papers on suspicion on looking ‘foreign’

PAPERS! The Guardian has news of a plot to make you a card-carrying Brit, or European Unionist, or African etc.:
Government measures making people prove their nationality or face prosecution risk damaging … (read more)

Posted: 7th, May 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | Comments (3)

You local President Trump flies Denver to Virginia

 

Can Donald Trump do it? The New York Times feels the mood:
For his first act as the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump strode on stage, extended his arms and … (read more)

Posted: 7th, May 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United, ‘Wayne Rooney hooker’ Helen Wood and restraint of trade

Who else shagged the “Roo hooker”? The Sun wants readers to know who allegedly paid for sex with Helen Wood, an adult woman who, allegedly, once had sex-on-the-clock with Manchester United star … (read more)

Posted: 4th, May 2016 | In: Celebrities, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Naz Shah: Jewish technology plot behind racism error says anti-Semitic Labour Party?

“She’s made remarks that she doesn’t agree with,” says Labout of Naz Shah, the Labout MP who doesn’t much like Jews.

As @MichaelPDeacon notes in the Telegraph: “She’s made remarks… that she … (read more)

Posted: 28th, April 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Reviews | Comments (3)

Liverpool Echo on Hillsborough: PRODUCE YOUR EVIDENCE

 

Hillsborough. We knew. The police lied and lied and lied. The media fanned the lies. The police monstered the dead. The police made the loved ones and the bereaved wait … (read more)

Posted: 27th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Spurs balls: Pochettino joins Jose Moutinho at Manchester United (says The Sun)

The Sun has an “exclusive”. It says Manchester United have sparked “PANIC” at Spurs. The Red Devils want to take Mauricio Pochettino from White Hart Lane to Old Trafford.

Spurs bosses … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment

Madeleine McCann: Amaral v The McCanns was an accident waiting to happen

Madeleine McCann – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.

Goncalo Amaral is back in the news. The former Portuguese detective has won an appeal against his libel defeat to Madeleine McCann’s parents, … (read more)

Posted: 20th, April 2016 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

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