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Set the language police on our MPs

Have you called the language police on Boris Johnson? You might need to wait a while because a few others could be getting the knock first. Johnson has been upbraided … (read more)

Posted: 30th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians | Comment

Portland hails the end of the urinal

Good news for men who like to sit down to take a wazz. The City of Portland has done away with urinals at its Portland Building. “The City of Portland … (read more)

Posted: 30th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Liam Gallagher answers 73 as he strolls about Hampstead Heath

Might be best not to bark out questions should you see Liam Gallagher bowls about his local area in north west London. In any case, Joe Sabia has beaten you to … (read more)

Posted: 30th, September 2019 | In: Celebrities, Music | Comment

Watch an octopus dream in colour

An octopus changes colours while sleeping. The US show Octopus: Making Contact opines that the captive octopus is dreaming of hunting. Bit of a guess, no? Maybe it’s dreaming of escape or … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment

Captain Morgan bars Muslims from its US website?

Sorry, Muslims, no rum, sodomy and the lash for you. At least that’s the way it appeared. Last week Captain Morgan rum ran a verification check on its US website. … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, The Consumer | Comment

Man has sex with plastic cleaning cone at Wigan train station

Phwoar!

Is nothing safe? To Wigan train station, where a man has been caught shagging a cleaning cone. He was observed abusing the facilities by a worker for Virgin Trains, natch.

The … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment

Stoned tuna: chef arrested for cannabis-infused fish

The Italian newspaper La Sicilia reports on a local chef arrested on suspicion of drugs dealing. The chef claimed he was testing out “new flavours”, and the two large marijuana plants and 1kg … (read more)

Posted: 29th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment

Vaping marijuana – don’t panic

A conspiracy can start any number of ways. But let’s consider the Daily Mail’s news on vapes and cannabis and death. The headline is a burp of worry words: “Black … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

The best print shop on the web

Delighted to say that Flashbak has new print store. It promises to the be the best print shop on the web. The print shop is edited by me, Rob Baker … (read more)

Posted: 25th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, The Consumer | Comment

Media balls: Arsenal ‘controversy’ upsets Aston Villa

It was pulsating stuff at the Emirates when Arsenal met a lively Aston Villa in the Premier League. The Gunners, who fluctuated between catatonic, dire, chaotic and scintillating, saw a … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, September 2019 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Class War Death Race: Labour summon Grim Reaper for Corbyn and the Queen

The Sunday Times leads with news that Jeremy Corbyn’s senior aide Andrew Fisher has resigned. Who? Fisher, we learn, was head of policy and author of the party’s last election … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Royal Family | Comment

‘My sex with Prince Andrew’: Virginia Giuffre says Epstein trafficked her to the Duke

The story of Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Prince Andrew did not die when the convicted paedophile took his own life. The Sun and Mirror lead with the words of Virginia … (read more)

Posted: 21st, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Royal Family | Comment

John Waters picks his favourite films and TV shows from ‘the closet ‘

John Waters’ took a look inside the ‘film closet’ at Criterion.
… (read more)

Posted: 20th, September 2019 | In: Film | Comment

Ben Stokes : the tabloids, murder and the right to be forgotten

Fallout from the Sun’s story on Ben Stokes “secret family tragedy” was loud and vociferous. The cricketer and a personal hero of mine, was the subject of a story about … (read more)

Posted: 20th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Tabloids | Comment

Surely only cheats pay for plagiarism detection tools

Do you like to cheat? Students are paying essay writers to write their essays – or just rehash an old one. But how do institutions know the essay is not … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2019 | In: News | Comment

Night and The City- the best London film ever?

Jeremy Smith has compiled a list : ‘The signature film of every major city’. London is the only British city to make the list. And the choice of film? … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2019 | In: Film | Comment

David Cameron: the cannabis years

In 2007, it was reported that David Cameron had smoked cannabis in 1982, when the future Prime Minister and then leader of the Conservative Party was a 15 years old … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

The Moebius Hendrix

In 1967 journalist Jean-Nöel Coghe accompanied Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) on the France and Belgium legs of his first tour outside the USA. Coghe took a photograph of Hendrix … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2019 | In: Celebrities, Music | Comment

Someone is leaving cannabis biscuits and cakes in England’s parks

Who is baking hash cakes and dropping them on the grass? Sarah Kenny says she was walking her Jack Russell cross Max in St Helens, Merseyside, when he scampered into … (read more)

Posted: 18th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Strange But True | Comment

Pigeon poos on had of man complaining about pigeon poo

What do the birds think of a lawmaker’s to keep birds away from the Chicago Transit Authority’s Irving Park Blue Line station, aka “pigeon poop station”?

Democratic state Rep. Jaime Andrade … (read more)

Posted: 18th, September 2019 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Global Climate Strike – digital goes dark

This week it’s the Global Climate Strike. The non-action action occurs this Friday, September 20. Greta Thunberg and disciples (too strong?) want us to stop ding anything else other than demand big … (read more)

Posted: 17th, September 2019 | In: News | Comment

Joan Didion : ‘Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it’

The new Joan Didion film on Netflix, The Centre Will Not Hold, got me reding her essays. In The Year of Magical Thinking (public library), the American essayist writes of … (read more)

Posted: 17th, September 2019 | In: Books | Comment

Punching low down : The Guardian attacks David Cameron over the loss of his child

The Guardian’s view on David Cameron’s memoirs was widely read for all the wrong reasons. For those of you who missed the toxicity, this is the cut that spread … (read more)

Posted: 17th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians | Comment

How they created the cover of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’

Kirk Weddle descibes how he took that photograph for the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album:

4-month-old baby was cast and I conducted the shoot with just his parents and a lifeguard … (read more)

Posted: 16th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment

Samantha Quek fails her audition as a football pundit

Woman’s football is more popular than ever. England’s World Cup run was great entertainment. More than 24,000 fans came to watch Chelsea play Spurs in the Woman’s Super League. Over … (read more)

Posted: 16th, September 2019 | In: Celebrities, Sports | Comment

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