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23rd, April 2010 Reviews

Papers Confirm That All Three Parties Win Leaders' Debate

The big leaders’ debate II is over and with no volcano to push the election down the news agenda, it’s front-page news. But what are the facts revealed in the press? More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities 2

Bea Arthur's McDonald's Golden Grill And Other Sexy Peta Ads

Bea Arthur might be deader than a Ronald McDonald’s eyes but she has returned for the great beyond to support Peta and to slam McDonalds... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews 3

For Earth Day Make A Green Funerary Urn From Dryer Lint

This Earth Day – “a birthday of sorts for the planet” – is the time to think about dying and spending eternity as filler for a line of papier-mâché urns made with dryer lint... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Leaders' Debate Pictures: Gordon Brown Fist Bumps For £250

Nick Clegg – aka Dutchman Nick Clogg – said that for £20 (made payable to N. Clegg Inc.) he’d build you a nuclear deterrent fron a old washing up bottle, some foil and a ‘whooshing’ sound... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

BBC Bias: Richard Bacon, Nick Clegg And A Partisan Press

The nodding heads compete to show us what to think... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Russian Christians Blame Iceland's Volcano On Gays

What caused Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Well global warming did. And women. Greedy hoteliers? Ryan Air? And the pagans. Interfax reports on the Association of Orthodox Experts, Russian chapter... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Volcano Horror: Gatwick Hit By Massive Imploding Star

Papers respond to tabloid panic... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews 1

St George's day classic English pop YouTube playlist

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22nd, April 2010 Celebrities

Jennifer Lopez Was Fat And Funny In Us Weekly

She want to tell you how she didn't care she was flabby. So little did she care that she kept right on not caring until her belly was tighter than a priest's cover story... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews 2

South Park KowTows To Muslim 'Prediction' Of Violence

Revolution Muslim "predicts" that if South Park portrays Mohmmed as a bear there will be terrible vengeance and heads will roll. More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities 7

In Pictures: Malcolm McLaren's Funeral Madness And Life

Did you have a Minute of Mayhem for Malcolm McLaren’s Funeral? We looked on from a pavement in Camden Town as the horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin of the man best known for managing the manager Sex Pistols passed by... More »

22nd, April 2010 The Consumer 1

Marmite Sues BNP And Hitler's Tizer

A jar of Marmite appears in the top left-hand corner of a video broadcast on the BNP’s website... More »

22nd, April 2010 Strange But True

Anal Vibrator Sparks Bomb Alert

Steven Ferrini's anal vibrator is causing the California Highway Patrol to evacuate its South Lake Tahoe area office... More »

22nd, April 2010 TV & Radio

The Flip Flop Man Of Coachella

The Flip Flop man of Coachella is having trouble with his shoes... More »

22nd, April 2010 Technology

The New Samsung 3DTV Is The TV That Can

Can 3D save TV? Can making everything look real make dire telly better more entertaining and informative? More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities 2

In Pictures: Lindsay Lohan And Sam Ronson's Coachella Spat

Want to see photos of Samantha Ronson spitting in the face of her former lover Lindsay Lohan at the Coachella music festival? More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities

Camilla Duchess Of Cornwall's Broken Pritt Stick: Pictures

A lame Duchess of Cornwall was wheeled into a reception at Clarence House for the Ebony Horse Club... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Nazis, Goebbels, Paedophile Priests And The Pope

IN1937 the Nazi propaganda minister organized a campaign to discredit the Catholic Church in response to the encyclical ‘Mit brennender Sorge'... More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities

Mark Ronson At Pop-Up Gucci: Pictures

Mark Ronson did his Derren Brown impression for the Gucci Icon-Temporary pop-up store launch... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

The Best Volcano Joke Ever

Ready for the best volcano joke ever? And yours too, please... More »

22nd, April 2010 Key Posts 3

Tyler Dixon And Media Bias Presents A History Of Attacks On Politicians: In Pictures

Media bias and the pictorial history of the great British egging... More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Election In Pictures: Brought To You By The Sun's Nuclear Cabbie

Nick Clegg's nuclear cabbie goes kaboom (on the meter)! More »

22nd, April 2010 Reviews

Breakdancing Chess Cut The Edge In Bromsgrove

This is the latest from Bromsgrove to tempt bored adolescents away from their playstations... More »

22nd, April 2010 Madeleine McCann 10

Madeleine McCann: Rewarding Lorraine Kelly In Pictures

Madeleine McCann's parents are to be interviewed by Lorraine Kelly on the GMTV sofa. It is billed as their only TV interview to mark the third anniversary of Our Maddie... More »

22nd, April 2010 Celebrities

Boy George Struck By Eyjafjallajokull Volcano And Manchester United's Bottom

Metro’s Andrei Harmsworth (any relation?) opts for the ruse of weaving the volcano into a celebrity story, this about singer Boy George... More »