4th, February 2010
Reviews
SCARE STORIES – Every day the media publishes incomplete research data, theory, lies and PR-contrived nonsense as news. And nothing sells news like bad news. Anorak round-up the scare stories of the day... More »
4th, February 2010
Celebrities
3 What irony that Prince Charles and the Camilla Duchess of Cornwall should visit the set of Coronation Street. Charles wait to be crowned is the longest-running soap opera in town. More »
4th, February 2010
Reviews
3 Shamso Miah, 25, of Redbridge, east London, is up before the Beak – one Cherie Booth QC. Mr Miah is accused of breaking a man's jaw following a row in a bank queue. More »
4th, February 2010
Celebrities
BEYONCE Knowles has been promoting her new fragrance 'Heat' at Macy's Herald Square in New York. Heat boasts “top notes of red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach a heart of honeysuckle nectar, almond macaroon and crème de musk, and a drydown... More »
4th, February 2010
Strange But True
2 In Beijing, rickshaw driver Chen Chuanliu chains his two-year-old son Lao Lu to a tree while he's working. He says this is because he can't afford a nursery place. More »
4th, February 2010
Reviews
HEADLINE of the Day: What's the most useless thing in the world? Worry your heads not. We'll tell you... More »
4th, February 2010
Sports
Tiger Woods: From In Every Disaster A Marketing Opportunity comes the Tail of the Tiger golf balls, each rubbery sphere bearing a portrait of one of Tiger’s alleged women. More »
You have seen Urination Nation: The Worst Political Advert Ever, now feat your peepers on the work of Carly Fiorina, Senate candidate for California. Political adverts should be a category at the Oscars... More »
GlacierGate, AmazonGate, ClimateGate and now Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that you can't argue with the science: More »
He’s charged with three counts of manslaughter, one for each of the innocent people who died as a result of the ceremony he conducted inside a sweltering tent in the middle of the Arizona desert... More »
4th, February 2010
Celebrities
12 Katie Price And Alex Reid: Psst! Wanna know about Tango & Gash’s “WEDDING NIGHT SECETS”? More »
3rd, February 2010
Reviews
PeterAndre – remember him? - was on Sky News talking about plate techtonics and his love of cats. Well, no, Pete was talking about his kidzzz and Katie Price, from whom he has moved on (see Anorak passim). More »
3rd, February 2010
Key Posts
1 What Band Aid did with style, credibility and grace, others do with pragmatism. Does Haiti deserve Simon Cowell? Does Simon Cowell deserve Haiti? We now present the worst/most mawkish/ opportunistic and downright terrible disaster relief records ever... More »
3rd, February 2010
Celebrities
Michael Jackson continues to entertain. Not for Jackson the straight-forward showbizzy death from a drugs overdose. He gave us more. He worked. He gave us Dr Conrad Murray to administer the drugs so enabling Jackson to remain squeaky clean even while under the influence... More »
3rd, February 2010
Strange But True
2 Are you the animal semen thrower of old Bury town? Do you pass an evening tossing animal semen on schoolgirls? More »
Robert Fidler, of Salfords, Surrey, must demolish his home. Mr Fidler built a castle, with turrets. And a canon. Mr Fidler did not get planning permission. More »
3rd, February 2010
Celebrities
Usher was a-sing’ and a-dancin’ at the MTV 2010 Behind the Screen presentation at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. He’s really made it. And then... More »
3rd, February 2010
Celebrities
AMY Winehouse has married Alex Reid, as you know. And to set your minds at rest that they married for love in the utmost privacy (the camera crew were hand picked – all dear friends) they issue a press release.. More »
3rd, February 2010
TV & Radio
When John Terry Meets Die Antwoord: Video, we wondered is Afrikaans rap could be bested? And then we met the The McDonalds Main Men, and heard their song Straight Outta Clacton: More »
3rd, February 2010
Celebrities
To celebrate the 135th birthday of the Criterion Restaurant in central London, a soggy British eatery owned by persons from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, a soggy guest list, consisting of such unsatisfying as and over-egged dishes... More »
3rd, February 2010
Politicians
How low can former presidential candidate John Edwards go? Apparently very. More »
Brits Helen Mirren, Nick Hornby, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan, Kathryn Bigelow, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche are up for Oscars. And the flag-waving Sun celebrates the news by telling its readers that it’s “AvOscar” time. More »
3rd, February 2010
Celebrities
Lily Allen gave up Twitter and a world groaned. Said Allen: “I am a neo-luddite.” She didn’t smash up her lap-top, mobile , iPod and whatever other gadgets she keeps in her handbag, but she gave them away. She craved the “real life”... More »
3rd, February 2010
Reviews
1 PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the self-styled voice of dumb animals, uses the face of Baby P – Peter Connelley’s - killer Steven Barker to illustrate a campaign against animal cruelty... More »
