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17th, December 2010 Royal Family

Prince Charles And Sophie Okonedo Bring Much Drama To The Palace

Charles passed the day with the Royal investitures. Chief among them was actress Sophie Okonedo, now Sophie Okonedo OBE... More »

17th, December 2010 Sports

Liverpool FC And Hillsborough Victims Attacked By Boston Globe

To help Bostonians make sense of Boston Red Sox owner John Henry's acquisition of Liverpool FC, Alex Beam went for the jugular... More »

17th, December 2010 Reviews

Julian Assange: The Americans Want Their Hero Home

Assange, who famously lost his job with the CIA when the rape charges were levelled against him in a plot to get “home” safely... More »

17th, December 2010 Politicians 1

Immigration: Aso Mohammed Ibrahim's Kids Need David Cameron

He is the failed asylum-seeker who killed 12-year-old Amy Houston. And then we let him stay... More »

17th, December 2010 Key Posts

British Soldiers Issued With Massive Utility Codpieces: Photos

When all else fails, make the enemy in Helmand think you have a gigantic penis and balls the size of Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings... More »

17th, December 2010 Reviews 1

Wikileaks: US Air Force Blocks Guardian And New York Times

The Dept. of Defense instructed employees and military personnel not to read the secret cables... More »

17th, December 2010 TV & Radio

George Ewart Evans' Borstal Recording Are Life In The 1970s

Was Borstal all bad? More »

17th, December 2010 Technology

Word Lens Means You're Never Alone In Wales

Word Lens is the iPhone app that can translate any word it's pointed at into any language via your iPhone’s video camera... More »

17th, December 2010 Politicians 1

The BNP's Constitution Is Written In Latin, Greek And Hebrew

BNP beats EHRC - sort of... More »

17th, December 2010 TV & Radio

The Apprentice: Cracking Chris Bates Or Icy Stella English?

The true star of this show is the casting talent that manages year on year to unearth a collection of undesirable tossers desperate to work in an office block in Essex... More »

17th, December 2010 Technology 4

America Declares Antarctica A Wikileaks Free Zone

Americans in Antarctica must not read Wikileaks's leaks... More »

17th, December 2010 Reviews

Julian Assange Stars On Graham Norton Show

A reader asks if Julian Assange's solicitor Mark Stephens is actually Dawn French trialling a new character for a TV show...? More »

17th, December 2010 Key Posts

P Diddy Combs Suffers As Woman Catches Fire In His Bath Full Of Tap Water

The whole thing looks like a put up job. If anything was burning it that room, the crew would be hanging over the source and taking it in deep.... More »

17th, December 2010 Reviews 1

Skunk Sprays Boys Being Stockpiled In Oklahoma Shed for Christmas

A skunk had sprayed £10,000-worth of “boys” destined to help poor children this Christmas... More »

17th, December 2010 Politicians

Bob Ainsworth's Drugs U-Turn Is Self-Serving Politicking

You say, prohibition does not work. But, sill, you sat there warming a ministerial seat and serving no useful purpose.... More »

17th, December 2010 Strange But True

Brunei Prince Loses Court Case: Keeps Sex Statues

Faith Zaman Derbyshire and Thomas Derbyshire have beaten Brunei's Prince Jefri Bolkiah... More »

17th, December 2010 Key Posts 15

The 20 Best Christmas Album Covers Ever

The Top 20 Album Covers Ever More »

17th, December 2010 Reviews

Julian Assange: How We Need Jeremy Kyle

The moment Julian lands in Sweden, Obama’s loyal drones will apply for his extradition to face a 500-year spell in a Texan penitentiary for upsetting Hillary Clinton... More »

16th, December 2010 Key Posts 5

Julian Assange's Lover: Improper Emails To A Young Woman

Assange is the 33-year-old improper lover courting a 19-year-old girl at University of Melbourne in 2004. Want to read his emails..? More »

16th, December 2010 The Consumer

Dubai's Emirates Palace Goes Green: World's Most Expensive Tree Points The Way Ahead

The Emirates Palace hotel embraces the spirit of Christmas with a Christmas tree decked in £11m-worth of trinkets, gold, baubles and germs.. More »

16th, December 2010 Reviews 3

Julian Assange Plays To A Thrilled Crowd: Photos And Off To Ellingham Hall

"It's great to smell the fresh air of London," said Assange. And Londoners eyeing the visible air snorted to suppress a chuckle... More »

16th, December 2010 Politicians

Mr Harman Banger Is Your Labour Candidate: Jack Dromey Endorse This Advert

Harman Banger is the Labour candidate for East Park in the election of May 2011... More »

16th, December 2010 Politicians 1

Bethany Shiner Says Police Kettling Is Illegal: To Fight It You Need More Protesters

Miss Shiner’s pa is Phil Shiner, leading light of Birmingham-based PIL, has an interest in “international, environmental and human rights law”.... More »

16th, December 2010 The Consumer 1

Wikileaks Advertises Sanitary Pads In Pakistan

We bring you the Wikileaks sanitary pad... More »

16th, December 2010 Reviews

Guardian Bemoans Climate Change Bias Reporting At Fox: Irony Overload

Huge news in the Guardian that Fox News has an agenda on global warming. You might suppose this will give Guardian readers a chance to see another side to the manmade global warming argument... More »