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30th, May 2011 Key Posts 2

James Brown Makes Excuse Laden Apology For Racist Attack On Ben Douglas

James Brown is the hairdresser who called Ben Douglas a nigger eight times at the Baftas wards. Brown is white. Douglas is black... More »

30th, May 2011 Sports

Alternative Olympic Sports: Cheese-Rolling On Coopers Hill With British Legend Chris Anderson

InAnorak’s occasional look at the Alternative Olympic Sports, we salute Chris Anderson, 23, from Brockworth, who has won all three races in the Cheese Rolling on Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire... More »

30th, May 2011 Celebrities 3

Cheryl Cole: Lies, Channel FIVE And Mental Illness

What news of Cheryl Cole? By now you’ll be wondering how she’s getting on in the USA. Are they, like us in the UK, attributing all manner of non-existent attributes upon the Geordie singer..? More »

30th, May 2011 Royal Family

Pippa Middleton Wants You To Smash Justin Bieber In The Face

The Middletons are to “Make a mint” out of “pop star deal”. So says the Daily Mail on a front page featuring Pippa Middleton, Our Lady Of the Glorious Bum... More »

30th, May 2011 The Consumer 3

Naomi Campbell Was Never The Milky Bar Kid: Cadbury's Bliss Chocolate Regrets Racism

The new advert for American chocolate company Cadbury compares Naomi Campbell to a bar of Dairy Milk Bliss chocolate... More »

30th, May 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Hitler Underpants

Photos of The Day are brought to you by Hitler Underpants – for your Nazi Party member... More »

30th, May 2011 Madeleine McCann 4

Madeleine McCann Is Wanted - Will David Cameron Now Find Michael Dixon?

Michael Dixon is missing. His brother David has written to David Cameron.... More »

29th, May 2011 TV & Radio 2

RIP Flick Colby: You And Pan's People Made ToTP For Dads

RIP Flick Colby. You were the dancer and choreographer who entertained the dads as a resident dancer with Pan’s People on Top of The Pops... More »

29th, May 2011 Celebrities 1

Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt's Sex Chat: Maddox Learns The Facts Of Life

Jolie and Brad Pitt have not been in the news as much as they were when they were adopting a coffee-table book full of children. But now they are back. And they want to talk about sex... More »

29th, May 2011 TV & Radio

Geordie Shore Only 'Bordering On Pornographic': Kim Kardashian Clones Escape Petri Dish

Just as you are poised not to watch, Newcastle Central MP Chi Onwurah steps in and gives the show the kind of push its producers can only have dreamt about. She says it is "bordering on pornographic"... More »

29th, May 2011 Key Posts

Sure FIFA Is A Stinking Bed Of Corruption But Where's The Evidence?

Hat off to Mohamed bin Hammam who has bravely, selfishly, and, dare it go unsaid, honourably, withdrawn from the FIFA presidential race moments before the election. It thus follows that in a field on one, noble Sepp Blatter will be re-elected as the FIFA president... More »

29th, May 2011 Technology

How To Make People Believe You In This Internet Age

Some handy advice on how to make people like you from an advertising executive.. More »

29th, May 2011 Technology 1

'TWITTER REVEALS SECRETS' - Sunday Telegraph News Sensation

Is this the greatest scoop of all time..?! More »

29th, May 2011 TV & Radio

In Which The Crab Escapes From The Cooking Pot: Video

How to cook a big croab in a small-ish pot... More »

29th, May 2011 Key Posts 4

Australian Greens Want Battersea Power Station Shut: Say Yes To Carbon Tax

Get a load of that carbon-belching coal-fired power station in the backgrond. It looks not a lot unlike Battersea Power Station - the one that shut in 1983... More »

29th, May 2011 Celebrities 2

Bald Imogen Thomas Shags Jermain Defoe As Ryan Giggs Loses Champions League

Imogen Thomas bounces back to be with another footballer... More »

29th, May 2011 Key Posts

Cheryl Cole's US X Factor Audition Tape: Nation's Sweetheart Bombs In America

Anorak hears that Cowell was threatened by Grassy Knoll, a fabled FBI agent working in cahoots with the Bilderberg Group's Illuminati divsion basded in Max Clifford's suite at the Vatican... More »

28th, May 2011 Key Posts

Champions League Final Photos: Lionel Messi, 39,000 Steps And Pique's Flower Arranging

Messi is the wonder who won the Champions League for Barcelona. He then joined the lads in a game of ring a ring o' roses around the Wembley centre circle... More »

28th, May 2011 Sports

Barcelona Outplay Manchester United To Win Champions League: 50 Photos

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28th, May 2011 Sports

Champions League Final Photos: Let's All Cheer Man United And Hate Barcelona

The club that plays great football also plays to get an opponent sent off. Barcelona is not more than a club. It is a club sponsored by the Qatar Foundation... More »

28th, May 2011 Reviews

Global Warming, Israel And Obama Triggered Joplin Tornado: Science Says So

"Once again, we’ve seen the U.S. hit with a series of deadly superstorms following Barack Obama’s pledge to return Israel to pre-1967 borders..." More »

28th, May 2011 Strange But True 1

E-Fit Of The Day: The Halifax Pixel Flasher

POLICE have released this efit of a man they wish to question in connection with an indecent exposure in Greetland.... More »

28th, May 2011 Strange But True

World Custard Pie Championships In Photos: Flour Power In Kent

To Coxheath, near Maidstone, Kent, for the world custard pie championship. Any world title is worth winning - the Americans with their World Series of basesball taught us that... More »

28th, May 2011 The Consumer

Food Porn: A Gallery Of Sexy Foods

Sometimes all you can do it titter as you view the food porn - sexy foods in the supermarket... More »

28th, May 2011 The Consumer 3

Imogen Thomas 'Strips' For Manchester United

Hats off to Imogen Thomas and Paddy Power for creating an advert in which the topless stunna linked to Ryan Giggs wears a Manchester United top alongside the command " BLOW ME!... More »