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4th, September 2009 Politicians 1

Mary Jo Kopechne Killed Joseph P. Kennedy

Edward Kennedy - a life: The rewrite in the NY Times is truly memorable... More »

3rd, September 2009 Politicians 2

Paul Krugman Versus The Deadly NHS

Scare Stories: The NHS is killing us all. Unless you're Pual Krugman and the NHS isn't... More »

3rd, September 2009 Key Posts

Jaycee Dugard: Picture Of Phillip Garrido's Kidnap And Rape

The tabloid battle to make Jaycee Lee Dugard’s ordeal worse moves on as Radar publishes details of “Philip Garrido's Shocking Kidnap And Rape Police report” and pictures of him looking "menacing". More »

3rd, September 2009 Politicians 1

Barack Obama Brings Back Kennedy Cynicism

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3rd, September 2009 In Pictures

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3rd, September 2009 Key Posts

Video Of The 9/11 Non WWF Advert

Want to be sickened and disgusted by a video? Go on, you know you do... More »

3rd, September 2009 Money 3

Germany's LadyBag Trumps Victoria Beckham's Portable Toilet

Introducing the Ladybag, the disposable portably lavatory for women who need to go, and don’t just want to dump in their handbags... More »

3rd, September 2009 Politicians 1

Gordon Brown Wants To Be Paid Less

Brown tells BBC Radio 1 Xtra says he is willing to take a salary cut if MPs agree this was the right thing to do during the recession... More »

3rd, September 2009 Celebrities

Daily Express: Princess Diana Still Dead

At the Daily Express, the Journatron lifts its monkey paw finger and passes over the buttons marked “Maddie” and “Gypsies” and presses: "Diana”... More »

3rd, September 2009 Reviews

China Executes Swine Flu Victims

Swine Flu is not yet old news. In China they are using bullets to beat the disease, executing it at root. Celebrities are catching it, and so can you. But how to get the message out there? Why, with Sesame Street, Google and comic books... More »

3rd, September 2009 Key Posts

Phillip Garrido And Jaycee Dugard's Secret Sons Found

Jaycee Lee Dugard - Anorak’s look at Jaycee Dugard in the news: THE tabloid war to make the ordeal endured by Jaycee Dugard yet worse, moves on as the Sun wonders if Phillip Garrido killed Jaycee's secret sons. More »

3rd, September 2009 Politicians

Miyuki Hatoyama, Japan's First Lady, Visits Tom Cruise's Uranus

Before we go on, know that Miyuki Hatoyama is on bowing terms with Tom Cruise, whom she knew in a past life when he was temporarily incarnated as a Japanese. She’s seen the film right, and Tom’s heel lifts. More »

3rd, September 2009 Strange But True 2

Woman Scared For Life By Naked Neighbour's Hairy Sausage

Denise Woodage tells Reading Crown Court that she has been put off sausages for life by the sight of her “oddball” her neighbour Paul Darlow masturbating in his back garden in Churchwood Walk, Calcot... More »

3rd, September 2009 Celebrities 7

John Mayer Has Died, Jennifer Aniston Offers No Comment

Mayer RIP. It’s the Summer of Death and musician John Mayer has died. John Mayer was involved in a road accident... More »

3rd, September 2009 Key Posts 4

Jaycee Dugard: Rape Orgies, The Jaycee Dugard Barbie And Garrido Confesses

Jaycee Lee Dugard - Anorak’s look at Jaycee Dugard in the news:140 perverts raped Jaycee, taking Madonna,'s virginity, the Jaycee Dugard Barbie doll and Garrido confesses... More »

3rd, September 2009 Celebrities 8

Katie Price's Anti-Rape TV Show And Peter Andre's Boast Card

Katie Price and Peter Andre's Divorce: Katie Tops Country Life poll, shock on the rape shock, a new self-defence TV show and Dignified Peter sends a boast card from Marbella, with the kidzzzzz... More »

3rd, September 2009 Key Posts 5

Madeleine McCann: Watching Amelie And Sean Start School

Madeleine McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - We’re watching Our Maddie’s twin siblings Amelie and Sean go to school with Jaycee Dugard... More »

2nd, September 2009 Reviews

World Wildlife Fund Is Not Peta: Will Not Bomb New York

The World Wildlife Fund's advert does not feature thousands of jets arrowed in on New York and the legend "The Tsunami Killed 100 Times More People Than 9/11." More »

2nd, September 2009 Money

Lublin University, Poland, Turns White People Black

After Microsoft was accused of trying to be relevant to the community it served, the University of Lubin, Poland offers courses in medicine that can turn a black Pole white and white Britisher black. Magick! More »

2nd, September 2009 Strange But True 4

Your London Cabbie Is A Paranoid Schizophrenic Who Strangled His Wife

In London a paranoid schizophrenic, who strangled his wife nine years ago is now training to be a black cab driver. More »

2nd, September 2009 Key Posts

Sarah Palin Wanted To Pretend Bristol And Levi Johnston's Son Was Hers

Levi Johnston, former almost lover to his baby mama Bristol Palin, is talking to Vanity Fair about his almost hockey mom-in-law Sarah Palin and how she wanted to pretend the child he fathered was hers... More »

2nd, September 2009 Reviews 1

Naked Man Mounts Trafalgar Square

Holwell is naked on the Trafalgar Square plinth as part of the ongoing One and Other art installation. Mr Holwell looks like Michelangelo’s statue of David, only not quite so butch and aroused... More »

2nd, September 2009 Celebrities

Summer Of Death: Cate Blanchett Bleeds For Her Art

Blanchett has been hit on the head by a prop as she performs in A Cate Streetcar Named Desire, in Sydney. It's the summer of Death, the big celebrity cull as celebs keeps step with the recession and reduce in numbers in accordance with the EU directive to recude the Eberoty Mountain. More »

2nd, September 2009 Celebrities 3

Pregnant Coleen Rooney Coped With Holiday

Coleen says she wants more children but is “going to wait to have the first one before we decide”. Coleen has just one womb. (The extension is being built and won’t be ready for a while and the NHS doesn't supply baby birthing bags yet.) More »

2nd, September 2009 Celebrities

Renee Zellweger And Bradley Cooper Name The Day

Did you know that 40-year-old Renee Zellweger is “currently romancing the hottest actor of the moment…”? So says OK! magazine. No, it’s not Brad Pitt. No, not George Clooney. No, not Gerard Butler. No, not Steve McFadden. It’s… More »