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So, Alexandra Hall, What’s It Like To Have Sex With Jeremy Clarkson In A Reasonably Priced Car?
JEREMY Clarkson and his wife Frances once sat on a super-injunction that prevented his ex-wife Alexandra Hall from ever talking publicly about her life with the Top Gear presenter and Sunday Times columnist. This was not to save Hall the infamy of being that woman who had found the pre-fame Clarkson sexually attractive and had had intercourse with him, rather it was to gag Hall from making claims that Clarkson was sleeping with her behind his wife’s back.
This all follows the false rumours that Clarkson had been shagging Jemima Khan – the intern and minted daughter of late money man James Goldsmith intern who recently became the anti-nepotism, equal opportunities campaigning New Statesman’s associate editor.
Responding to the Khan story, Clarkson wrote a newspaper columns in support the new injunctions, which are brought on the basis of European human rights legislation. As he said:
“It is said only the rich and famous can afford a gagging order. But only the rich and famous ever need one.”
Once again, as with Clarkson’s BBC colleague Andrew Marr, the rich journalist would seek to gag the press.
Now Clarkson is of the opinion:
“Injunctions don’t work. You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the internet. It’s pointless.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Bella The Dog Is Dead: Tara The Elephant Mourns Her Best Pal (Photos)
SAD news from the elephant sanctuary for abandoned, runaway, inspiring and wayward elephants in Hohenwald, Tennessee: Tarra’s friend Bella has died.
On Tarra’s profile, we learn:
• Reason for coming to the Sanctuary: inspiration and founding member
She has talent:
Born in Burma, Asia, Tarra’s artistic talent began to emerge almost immediately upon her introduction to America and life in captivity. Often, Tarra was observed holding a stick in her trunk, drawing abstract images in the dirt. Using a stone grasped firmly in the end of her trunk, she passed the solitary night time hours by etching drawings on the concrete floor of her barn.
CEO Robert Atkinson, a former Head of Wildlife for the United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has news:
My dear friends,
I write to you with very sad news. Tarra’s little dog Bella has died. We found her body on Wednesday and have been dealing with the aftermath ever since, trying to work out what happened while we look after Tarra and each other.
We noticed Bella was not with Tarra at breakfast on Tuesday and later that morning she still had not appeared. Tarra and Bella have always spent short periods apart as one goes off exploring briefly on their own, but this longer absence worried us deeply and a search of the property was started which continued into the next day. The search ended tragically when Bella’s body was found close to the Asia barn that had long been home to Tarra, her five sisters and Bella. During the time of the search our usually social Tarra chose to remain alone, watched over by concerned Caregivers.
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)
Spot The Golliwog At The BNP’s Liverpool Conference At Wavertree Cricket Club
THE British National Party’s annual conference was in Liverpool. MEP Nick Griffin praised a “hard core” delegates for attending the conference. There were about 70 people at the Wavertree Cricket Club. There wer about 30 protestors outside.
The BBC notes:
The delegates backed a motion supporting quantitative easing.
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (10)
Kelly Rowland’s X Factor Career Is Saved As The Clocks Go Back
THE major problem with the X Factor (the? – ed) is the need for off-screen drama. The People reports that Simon Cowell has given Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland 48 hours to return to the show or else her judging days are over.
An insider told The People:
“Kelly has been told it’s time to make her mind up. Everyone is supportive of the fact she is ill but other bosses are annoyed at the situation. She doesn’t want to quit. She is adamant that she isn’t worried about the row she had with Tulisa and wants to return but she has to give the producers her word – and fast.”
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Hollow John Terry Racism Debate: After Cantona and Kitson, The Chelsea Captain Matters
IAN Holloway, the likeable Blackpool manager, wants to share this thoughts on the accusation that Chelsea captain John Terry racially abused QPR’s Anton Ferdinand. He writes in the Independent:
I can’t sit here and claim I’ve never made a comment that I shouldn’t have on a football pitch. In the heat of a game, especially when things are going against you and you’re frustrated, you tend to say things that you shouldn’t.
For sure. Anyone who has played competitive sport at any levels would not like their muttering aired in the full glare of a media feeding frenzy.
I remember one training session at Bristol Rovers where I slaughtered a Welsh and a Scottish lad because they were winding me up. I was shouting all sorts of horrible things to try and provoke a response and I was bang out of the order.
Is it racism when an Englishman abuses someone from Scotland or Wales? Arsene Wenger says racism is being called a a paedo.
Former Reading striker Dave Kitson said racism was ginger:
“We talk about kicking racism out of sport but this is just as bad in its way.”
The Daily Star reacted to that with the headline “Kitson’s a right ginger whinger”.
The players’ association chief Gordon Taylor said, rightly:
“It belittles racism to compare the two issues.”
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
X Factor’s Jesy Nelson Is Weeping Role Model For The Occupy ITV Movement
DID you know that the X Factor’s Jesy Nelson is in “tears”? Well, she is. The Sun reports:
Net bullies leave X Factor’s Jesy in tears – Little Mix star weeps after cruel comments
Isn’t being abused and teary part of the journey to being a female star? The self-obsession is part of what it is to be a “diva”, “icon” or whatever the current marketing phrase is. And then there is the misery. Famous female singers are always portrayed in the tabloids as being utterly miserable, insecure wrecks. Cheryl Cole lives in Hurtmore House and weeps for Ashley Cole. Britney Spears is falling to bits. Amy Winehouse is pained and troubled.
Jesy is just getting into the part. Forget the trolls, Jesy, they’re just trainee journalists and biopic writers – the professional sods will slaughter you in a multimedia tear-fest; your life reduced to a cartoon of extreme emotions and ultimate loneliness and unfullfillment. Sure you will have the cash and the fame but such things are wasted on women.
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
How Nice Vincent Tabaks Never Murdered A Prostitute Named Butterfly: Jo Yeates Killer Shocker
WE know that Vincent Tabak murdered Joanna Yeates. And now we can read the Sunday Mirror’s story that he once spent time with a prostitute named Princess Butterfly.
As we’ve already learnt, Tabak viewed porn and likes sex. The Daily Star and Sun are aghast. Hang the fact that the Star’s sister organ to Channel X whereon you can watch a film entitled Bitch In The Boot, and the Sun’s owners operate the country’s biggest pay-per-view porn empire, and just know that viewing skin flicks is a sign of a corrupt mind.
Today the Mirror adds to the story that Tabak might have hired a prostitute.
Graeme Culliford is in Los Angeles, The paper that in its haste to own Joanna Yeates renamed her Joanne in a front-page splash, has news:
Vincent Tabak slid his fingers around the call girl’s throat for a neck massage, she had no idea she was helping him live out his depraved fantasy.
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Tweeting Derek Acorah Sees Mass Death In Ireland And Tsunamis In Bournemouth
DEREK Acorah, the shiny-suited TV spiritualist, has had some notable triumphs. Thanks to him, Lisa Manning’s family know that the poltergeist moving about a pink chair at their home in Lilley Close, Holbrooks, Coventry, is called Jim.
We know that Cheryl Cole and Ashley will have a baby in 2011.
He told us that Michael Jackson is communicating.
He told us that the wags at the World Cup might end up in jail.
He, allegedly, channelled a fictional character in Bodmin jail.
In this week’s OK!, Derek tells readers of “massive cataclysmic changes next year… Look at the tsunamis and the volcanoes. Many, many people’s lives will be taken, all in one go…. It will between spring and summer and it will hit around Ireland , and then spread to Central America …The weather will go haywire. It will be like going back to the Ice Age. The South Coast will be hit, but not as far as London.”
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Posted: 30th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Three-Eyed Fish Caught In Nuclear Lake: Photo
GOOD news for fans of fish eyes: one with three eyes has been caught in Argentin. It was swimming in a lake wherein the nearby nuclear facility pipes its hot water.
Says fisherman Jilian Zmutt:
“We were fishing and we got the surprise of getting this rare specimen. As it was dark at that time we did not notice, but then you looked at him with a flashlight and saw that he had a third eye.”
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
RIP Jimmy Savile: A Life In Photos
JIMMY Savile has died. He was 84. He died at his home in Leeds. He was a Radio DJ, professional wrestler, Sir Jim and star of Jim’ll Fix It. He also raised lots of money for charity.
“Now then, now then” – that was your catchphrase. Now was… Now was…
The photos are brilliant:
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
John Terry Racism Row: Chelsea’s Andre Villas-Boas And Arsenal’s Wenger Are Badly Wrong
JOHN Terry Racism Saga: Did Chelsea captain John Terry racially abuse QPR’s Anton Ferdinand? We do not know. Terry says his words have been taken out of context and misunderstood. But the allegation is enough to sully Terry’s name:
The Mail leads with news that Sky has handed “unseen footage” to the FA.
The word “unseen” suggests that there is something worth seeing. But we don’t know if there is. All we know is that Sky has delivered footage from its 20 cameras to the FA to view.
Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manger, sheds few a words on the matter:
“It came to me, how much credit can you give to something that is said on the pitch in a passionate situation? How deep do you read into it? If you have played football, you have said something to your friends; sometimes that they are an idiot – but you do not really think he’s an idiot. And that’s what I mean, in a passionate situation inside the game doesn’t mean that you can say anything. But you are not always politically correct on the pitch.”
Wenger is wrong. This is not about political correctness. This about racial abuse. The words “black c**t” are not taken lightly, but backed by 400 years of racial abuse against blacks. If political correctness means it unacceptable to racilly abuse a man in public, then we’re all for it.
“The debate is: Do you want every player to be followed by a camera? And analyse completely what he said after the game? That’s what we should do?”
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (7)
X Factor: ‘Sick’ Kelly Rowland And ‘Mean’ Tulisa Contostavlos Dehumanise Misha Bryan
NEWS that Kelly Rowland will not feature on the X Factor this weekend is said to be rooted in her “row” over the show’s designated “bully” Misha Bryan, who was said to “mean” by fantasy happy-slapper Tulisa Contostavlos.
Now news recahes us that Roland, the Destiny’s Child singer, has a throat infection and would not be able fly back to the UK for the ITV show.
A statement informs the world:
“Kelly is devastated she won’t be here for this weekend’s show. She is extremely ill with a viral throat infection and her doctors aren’t permitting her to fly. Kelly will be returning to the show as soon as she has recovered. The girls have been in touch to wish her a speedy recovery and they can’t wait for her to get back. More news as we have it.”
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Joanna Yeates: Was Tabak Hooked On Richard Desmond’s Bitch In The Boot Films And James Murdoch’s Porn?
JOANNA Yeates Murder: So. Vincent Tabak did murder Joanna Yeates. The women the paper dubbed “Jo” and the Daily Mirror renamed “Joanne” was murdered in her Bristol flat by a Dutch engineer.
And now finally after days and days of waiting the tabloids can lead with sensationalist articles about what a complete nutter Tabak is. Not a “strange” one like Chris Jefferies, the innocent man the tabloids libelled in their haste to own the story. But an actual murdering nuter.
Before those headlines, the facts:
Police found Police seized Tabak’s computers. On them they found evidence that he had viewed porn in which women were held by the neck during sex. He also viewed images of women bound in the boot of cars. (He kept and moved Joanna Yeates’ dead body in the boot of his own car.)
Prosecutors believed that the pornographic films showed why Tabak held Miss Yeates by the neck – which led to her death.
In autumn 2010, Tabak checked into a LA hotel under the name Francis Tabak. There is evidence to suggest he then hired an escort. But there is no proof that he did, nor that he had sex with one. The police are planning to question him further.
Now for those headlines:
“HOOKED ON SICK PORN AND STRANGLING” – Daily Mirror
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
The London Orbital M25 Is 25: A Photo History Of The Road To Hell
THE M25 is 25 years old today. What does the London Orbital motorway mean to you? We polled Anorak Towers. Their responses do not paint a happy picture…: traffic jam; Kenneth Noye; murder; accidents; death; M25 Three, Trophy Rapist; road rage; cones; parking; protest; IRA; &*%$!…
Here are the photos of the road to hell’s history so far:
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Posted: 29th, October 2011 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Fifa Awards World Cup TV Rights To Sepp Blatter’s Nephew Joseph Blatter
FIFA have appointed Infront Sports and Media as the organisation’s “exclusive sales representative for the distribution of Asian broadcast rights” for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Phew! Those negotiations were surely painstaking. And then there must have been a lengthy tendering process.
Niclas Ericson, FIFA’s director of TV, assures us:
“Infront offered the best package for this important and very complex project both in financial as well as marketing aspects. We believe that the team will deliver the best possible results for FIFA and help us achieve our distribution and financial objectives in Asia.”
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Giles Fraser Resigns: Occupy The Church Of England Takes Over Lehman Brothers’ Offices
THE Reverend Giles Fraser has left his post as canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral for showing what some may see as Christian understanding in backing the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp massed .4 of a mile from its target at St Paul’s Cathedral. Indeed, the occupiers may care to change their message to Occupy The Church of England and demand transparency and fairness in the mega-rich institution’s dealings, both financial and moral. They could occupy Lehman Brothers’ old offices in Canary Wharf.
Fraser issues a statement:
The Revd Canon Dr Giles Fraser, Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, issued the following statement today (Saturday 22 October 2011)
“I remain firmly supportive of the right of people peacefully to protest. But given the strong advice that we have received that the camp is making the cathedral and its occupants unsafe then this right has to be balanced against other rights and responsibilities too. The Christian gospel is profoundly committed to the needs of the poor and the dispossessed. Financial justice is a gospel imperative. Those who are claiming the decision to close the cathedral has been made for commercial reasons are talking complete nonsense.”
St Paul’s bill him thus:
The Reverend Dr Giles Fraser is Chancellor of St Paul’s and heads up the teaching office of the cathedral. He is the director of the St Paul’s Institute responsible for the cathedral’s engagement with the City of London as a financial centre.
Before coming to St Paul’s he was the Vicar of Putney, and prior to that Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, where he was also a lecturer in Philosophy. He has a PhD in philosophical theology and has published and lectured widely in philosophy of religion and ethics. He also lectures for the army on moral leadership in war at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham. He is a regular contributor to national newspapers, as well as having a weekly column in the Church Times. He is also a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.
The views and news:
Fraser tells the Guardian:
“I cannot support using violence to ask people to clear off the land. t is not about my sympathies or what I believe about the camp. I support the right to protest and in a perfect world we could have negotiated. But our legal advice was that this would have implied consent.”
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“The church cannot answer peaceful protest with violence… I cannot countenance the idea that this would be about [the eviction of] Dale Farm on the steps of St Paul’s. I would want to have negotiated down the size of the camp and appeal to those there to help us keep the cathedral going, and if that mean that I was thereby granting them some legal right to stay then that is the position I would have had to wear.”
….“Nobody was a villain in this, it has been a matter of conscience for everyone. Ironically the church is a church of the incarnation. That means it has to address things to do with everyday life, including money. Christopher Wren’s forte was not ‘Jesus born in a stable’. What the camp does is challenge the church with the problem of the incarnation – that you have God who is grand and almighty, who gets born in a stable. St Paul was a tent maker. If you tried to recreate where Jesus would have been born, for me I could imagine Jesus being born in the camp.”
Gavin Drake, the bishop of Lichfield’s press officer, wrote on his blog:
“Goodbye Giles Fraser, you won’t be missed. Giles Fraser is a liberal when it comes to what he believes, but a complete bigot when it comes to the beliefs and views of others … His appointment was wrong.”
Toby Young:
“Sod your colleagues, eh, Dr Fraser? The important thing is that you hold on to your reputation as a man of principle.”
The Guardian has an interview:
The recently resigned canon chancellor of St Paul’s arrives in a black T–shirt, jeans and stubble. He had slipped out of his 17th-century grace and favour house in the shadow of Wren’s cathedral before the media arrived without thought to shaving or dress code. He’s now regretting this: “I want to look like a priest, not a protester.”
Always sully forth like you are about to meet your worst enemy.
Alan Rusbridger opines:
The Rev Giles Fraser – matey, warm, a ready, raucous laugh – could easily pass for a protester. It’s easier in some ways to imagine him arguing over a beer with the campaigners sleeping outside his cathedral than engaged in debate with the scarlet, purple and black-frocked colleagues of the bishop, dean and chapter.
Fraser is being presented as a rebel. But this is man who took the cloth of a massively rich rigid organisation basted in tradition. The Church is the 1%.
Fraser then get political:
So what does he make of the protest on his doorstep? “The camp is a complex and interesting mixture of such a divergent range of views – united largely by what it’s against, which is a very legitimate anger about the way in which wealth has been distributed and the way in which capitalism is currently seen to benefit just a very few people. I think that is very legitimate anxiety. I think there’s an irony that we are having this conversation today, on the 25th anniversary of Big Bang, the deregulation of the Stock Exchange, liberalisation of the rules and regulations regulating the City and so forth … I mean, it seems to me quite clear that markets were made for man and not man for market. I am not against capitalism. I am not one of these people who thinks that capitalism is inherently wicked.”
Though that’s what he used to think? He nods.
“I used to be a socialist and for a long time I did have the view that there was something intrinsically immoral about capitalism. I changed my mind quite fundamentally about that quite a few years ago. I had a conversion sitting in Notting Hill market, reading the chief rabbi on the subject – an essay called ‘the moral case for market economy’. I think there is a very clear question here to be addressed,” he continues, “and the reason that the protesters have captured some of the public imagination is because a great many people think that something has gone wrong in the City of London and that the wealth generated by the City does not exist for the benefit of us all. So, yes, I am sympathetic to that extent. I am not sympathetic to the extent of self-righteous ‘bash the banker’ rhetoric, I am not sympathetic to ‘let’s bring down capitalism’. I really think there is a moral self-righteousness about saying what you are against but not saying what you are for.”
Adding:
“I mean, Jesus is very clear that the love of money is the root of all evil … Jesus wants to point us to a bigger picture of the world than simply shopping.”
The piece ends:
He reluctantly agrees to be photographed. He borrows an electric razor and a white shirt, roaring with laughter as he strips to the waist in the editor’s office. He pulls on his jacket. And, for the first time today, the Rev Dr Giles Fraser begins to look a little less like a protester and a touch more like the canon of England’s most majestic cathedral. Albeit an unemployed one.
His Grace has sympathy with the protestors: they are concerned about poverty and rail against greed. Good. So did Jesus. Their heart is in the right place, even if their protest isn’t. They are sheep without a shepherd. The Stock Exchange is not the cause of the global economic crisis: it would make far more sense for them to occupy the Bank of England or Parliament Square, for there the decisions are taken to tax, spend, loan, print money and set interest rates. It is politicians and bankers who have sunk us into this morass: those who trade in stocks and shares are not the cause.
It is not every day that His Grace can praise Alan Rusbridger and The Guardian, but on this matter they are spot on. Aside from the quite unnecessary swipe at the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the article is lucid and accurate. Mr Rusbridger writes: ‘This rather messy and absurd situation has handed the dean and chapter of St Paul’s a truly historic opportunity to discredit Christianity in this country. They seem determined to take it.’ It is a sad and sorry day when Christ’s mission is expounded more accurately in the pages of The Guardian than in London’s foremost Cathedral Church
George Carey in the Daily Telegraph:
The inevitable resignation of the Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s, Giles Fraser, via the predictable medium of Twitter, is a sad day for one of our great national churches. But the departure of this able man, and now the planned reopening of the cathedral, should at least bring to an end the hand-wringing and posturing of the past two weeks. My paramount concern throughout has been that the reputation of Christianity is being damaged by the episode, and, more widely, that the possibility of fruitful and peaceful protest has been brought into disrepute.
The Blitz only closed St Paul’s for four days. By contrast, the Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters, camped outside Wren’s masterpiece, managed to put it out of business for a week. It has been a debacle that should prompt urgent public debate both within the Church of England, and throughout society at large…
I’m not convinced that the Occupy protesters were aware of the history of St Paul’s when they chose the churchyard for their encampment. Denied room at nearby Paternoster Square, they were pushed back to St Paul’s, where Giles Fraser offered them a warm welcome and preached a sermon that they saw as favourable to their anti-capitalist agenda. For many people, Fraser’s intervention struck a dissonant note. Rather than entreating the protesters to move on, he asked the police to leave the steps of St Paul’s and declared to the cameras that the protest was peaceful.
I their agenda soley anti-capitalist? No.
For countless others, though, not least in the churches, this was a hopeful sign that peaceful protests could indeed take place at a time when so many civil liberties have been eroded. Furthermore, it demonstrated that the Church is willing to play a sympathetic role in the lives of young people who are drawn to a movement calling for economic justice.
Like many others in the Church, I have a great deal of sympathy for the raw idealism of the protesters. Their contention that the banks have not paid an equitable price for the damage caused, in part, by their reckless lending and profiteering strikes a powerful chord.
However, after their initial welcome to Occupy, the cathedral authorities then seemed to lose their nerve. In daily-changing news reports, the story see-sawed between a public debate about the merits or otherwise of the protest, the drama of internal disputes at St Paul’s over lost income from tourists, and the ill-defined health, safety and fire concerns that caused it to close its doors to worshippers.
One moment the church was reclaiming a valuable role in hosting public protest and scrutiny, the next it was looking in turns like the temple which Jesus cleansed, or the officious risk-averse ’elf ’n safety bureaucracy of urban legend. How could the dean and chapter at St Paul’s have let themselves get into such a position?…
It would be a tragedy now if, by the mismanagement of the St Paul’s authorities and the self-indulgence of the protesters, the right of peaceful protest and the urgency of widespread public debate became the subject of even greater cynicism and apathy. This opportunity to rebuild our ailing public life around gospel values of public service, self-restraint, equality, hard work and charitable concern for the poor, must not be squandered.
Anna White, Telegraph:
Just hours after the Corporation of London sought to have them removed, Giles resigned. Luckily he can tap up his brother for a job. Rupert Fraser is head of sales at brokerage Evolution. He probably does believe in bonuses. God moves in mysterious ways.
Alternatively, there’s a role going at the Central Bank of Ireland. The financial institution is advertising for a chief economist. This is an ideal job for a highly motivated self-starter and I believe comes with a company car, full BUPA membership and a poisoned chalice.
London Mayor, Boris Johnson:
“With the greatest respect to their point of view, they have made it. You have got a situation in which London businesses, tourism, the cathedral, the ability of people to worship, I’m told, is being disrupted. That being so, if the cathedral authorities and the City of London Corporation can come to a common legal position I think that would be a good thing.”
As yet, no bankers have gone on the record.
Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
The 1970s In Photos
THE 1970s. Time for some shameless nostalgia. Can you identify all these moments from your past?
Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (7)
Daily Mail Rips Apart Kate Middleton Over A Scar On Her Head
WHEN Kate Middleton, aka the Duchess of Cambridge, hosted a private dinner at Clarence House, London, in aid of the charity In Kind Direct – one of The Prince of Wales’s charities – the Daily Mail told readers she was wearing false hair.
The paper told readers she she was sporting “weft” hair extensions, before launching into a thorough debate on how one side of her head is covered in thicker hair than the other.
An expert told us:
“It looks like the hair extensions have been put in too close to the hairline, where the hair is finer and there is less coverage, therefore the strip is easier to see.”
Glamour magazine concurred, saying “you can see a strip right at her temple there that does look suspiciously like the ‘tape’ at the top of hair extensions“.
The Mail then used those badly deployed hair extensions to make fun of Prince William’s thinning locks.
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comments (6)
Charla Nash Photos: The Woman Who Lost Her Face To A Pet Chimpanzee
CHARLA Nash, 56, has a new face. Her original face was destroyed by a pet chimpanzee. The ape ripped off her hands, lips, nose and eyelids. It tore a chunk from her scalp. Doctors had to remove her eyes.
It was on February 16, 2009, when Charla went to Sandra Herold’s home in Stamford, Connecticut, Sandra was her boss. She had called to get help in placing her 14-year-old pet chimpanzee, Travis, back inside its cage.
Says Nash now:
“A lot of people tell me I look beautiful and I never had anyone tell me that before. I look OK now and I don’t have to worry about scaring anyone.”
Her twin brother Mike Nash puts it well:
“I saw her (and) I said ‘wow’. It’s amazing the miracles of science.”
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
Courtney Stodden Is The Organic Pumpkin Patch Princess (Photos)
WHAT news of Courtney Stodden, 17-year-old bride to 51-year-old Doug Hutchinson?
When we first encountered Stodden we thought 17 was the mean age of her surgical attachments. But its turns out it is her actual birth age.
And then Courtney told us that her chest is 100% organic. Hard luck, indeed, that they should look so false. Or maybe it is good luck for the surgeons who can now point to your massive gob-stopping pumpkins and say: “No, you’re worrying over nothing. They do look real. Just look at this photo of 100% organic Courtney Stodden. See. Just like yours. Perfectly normal. Next!”
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Daily Mail Says Deaths Of Fayz Uddin And Sara Rylance Is All About Muslims
FAYZ Uddin, 18, and Sara Rylance, 17, have died in Sethwick, Wet Midlands. They are the subject of the Daily’s Mail’s story:
Muslim boy and non-Muslim girl in ‘forbidden love’ relationship die after falling into canal
Not “Christian girl and non-Christian body…” Not “Teenage boy and…”. The emphasis is on “Muslim”.
The Mail’s Oliver Pickup says the pair were in a “forbidden” relationship. They died in what police call a “tragic accident”.
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Madeleine McCann: Inspiring Duncan McAlister Is The Sun’s Maddie Perv
MADELEINE McCann: Duncan McAlister is the Sun’s “Maddie perv”.
As we know, the title “Maddie perv” is a movable one. Today’s “Maddie perv” is spotted by Gordon Tait:
Maddie perv freed… because he’s disabled
Go on:
A TWISTED paedophile who trawled the web for footage of child rape and “Maddie porn” has avoided jail — because he is disabled.
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Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (2)
Photos Of The Day: Che Guevara Is The 1%
Posted: 27th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (2)
