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Westminster paedos and celebrity nonces: of 1,433 alleged offenders not a single one is a policeman
Westminster paedos: a look at reporting on the story of historical sex abuse gone unpunished.
The Guardian tells us that since Sir Jimmy Savile was dug up, stripped of his knighthood … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Knob Watch: Raheem Sterling’s agent denies saying his client is definitely leaving Liverpool
Raheem Sterling will not sign for Liverpool. No way. No how. It will not happen. Sterling wants a return to London, which means playing for either Arsenal or Chelsea. Fact.
Shy and retiring … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Sports | 0 Comments
Chris Bryant joins Labour Party’s silent chorus on Mirror Group phone hacking crimes
The Mirror Group titles have been found guilty of phone hacking. We’ve been listening out for what Labour MP Chris Bryant has to say about it. When Rupert Murdoch’s News … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Hacking: Will John Prescott discuss Paul Gascoigne’s £188,250 compensation in his Daily Mirror column?
Others who had their privacy unlawfully invaded by the Mirror’s titles include: Sadie Frost (£260,000), … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer Balls: Manchester United mock Liverpool with Raheem Sterling broadcast
But the news is thin.
The Times’ leads sports story begins and … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
Dubai tourist imprisoned for tapping policewoman’s shoulder to ask for directions
To the fascistic hellhole that is Dubai, where a Kazakh tourist has been arrested for tapping a policewoman on the shoulder and asking her for directions to Dubai Mall. The 21-year-old policewoman tells … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | 0 Comments
Deliah Smith is away: man arested in row over how to boil an egg
In the 1980s, TV cook Delaih Smith taught the British how to boil an egg. She did not tour the US, an oversight that has led to a row in … (read more)
Posted: 21st, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | 0 Comments
Howler of the year: Washington Post accuses Prince Charlie of being an IRA member
What?!
Charles continues to deny being a member of the … (read more)
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Royal Family | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Chelsea get Paul Pogba for less than half Manchester City paid for him in March
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: Chelsea, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
London property madness: former Chelsea council flat on sale for £1.1m
A third floor flat in unlovely Keppel House on Brompton Cross, Chelsea, is on sale for £1.5m
Maskells estate agency says the redesigned property features two-bedrooms, a 1952 Soviet-styled exterior, “handcrafted and laid chevron flooring”, … (read more)
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: The Consumer | 0 Comments
Hive Mind: watch the first 21 days of a bee’s life in 60 seconds
The first 21 days of a Bee’s Life in 60 is a video by photographer Anand Varma and the bee lab at UC Davis.
Varma has given a TED talk on the process … (read more)
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Highlights of the Universal ShowQueen Pageant 2015: the world’s greatest transgender and drag divas compete
More here. … (read more)
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Rhyl man broke into girlfriend’s house and wrote ‘Cheating cow’ on carpet with brown sauce
At Prestatyn magistrates’ court Martin Roberts, aged 34, pleads guilty to burglary in Rhyl. His crime was not in the taking, rather in what he broke into his girlfriend’s house … (read more)
Posted: 20th, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | 0 Comments
Teachers ate school hamster to teach children about value of life
Yu, a teacher in South Korea, reportedly killed the school’s pet hamster in front of children and ate it.
Yu, 44, is is quoted in the Korea Times:
“I couldn’t control the situation and … (read more)
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | 0 Comments
Former Thompson Twins singer Alannah Currie stuffs her furniture with roadkill
Alannah Currie, once of the three-piece 1980s band The Thompson Twins, now works as an upholsterer.
She says she has hidden poetry and handwritten stories in different parts” of her chairs. And … (read more)
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | 0 Comments
Hong Kong Pooey! Woman spotted and photographed taking a poo in public
To Hong Kong, where a woman has been spotted taking a dump in public. Dogs and birds can do this but human beings are held to … (read more)
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | 0 Comments
Mike Young’s YouTube Channel is the greatest kamikaze karaoke this side of Tokyo
Enjoy the silence:
Spotter: DM … (read more)
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Music | 0 Comments
Liverpool: The Sun passes off the BBC’s Raheem Sterling scoop as its ‘Exclusive’
Laughing all the way to the bank
Last night the BBC reported that Raheem Sterling was arranging his Liverpool departure. Given that the talented, underpaid and pragmatic Sterling had … (read more)
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Liverpool, Sports | 0 Comments
Watch Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas earn the season’s most ridiculous red card
Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas has been sent off for kicking the ball at West Bromwich Albion’ Chris Brunt.
Fàbregas sees red for kicking ball at Brunt after Costa … (read more)
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | 0 Comments
Migrants working on Qatar’s glorious 2022 World Cup are living in Shangri-la says BBC report
‘Qata is great. Wish you were hear,’ love Sanjay
The Qatari government wanted to show invited journalists how well it’s treating migrant workers toiling on its 2022 World Cup … (read more)
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: Sports | 0 Comments
Injured ball boy teaches Maria Sharapova the art of silent comedy
The thing I noticed when the ballboy face planted (into actual plants) at the women’s final of the Internazionali BNL D’Italia was that he made less noise than Maria Sharapova does executing … (read more)
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: Sports | 0 Comments
Henry Scott Holland on death: ‘I have only slipped way into the next room’
A note on death by (27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918), Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford:
Spotter: June, Flashbak … (read more)
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Mother of three found guilty of raping sleeping man
Chantae Marie Gilman, 28, admitted climbing on top of a sleeping man and raping him. Gilman, a 16-stone mother to three, says she can’t recall anything.
Detective Roger Ishimitsu reported: “Once … (read more)
Manchester United: watch Louis van Gaal sing about Louis Van Gaal
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
Dominique Sharpton wants $5m for sprained ankle – bravely hikes up mountain on holiday
Posted: 18th, May 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments