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7th, April 2015 manchester united

Transfer balls: Manchester United are selling their captain

The Daily Mirror leads with news that Manchester United are to rid themnslves of £200,000-a-week Robin van Persie. United will replace RVP with PSG’s Edinson Cavani... Really? More »

7th, April 2015 Celebrities

Thought of the Day: Blue Verse, by W.H. Auden

There was a young poet whose sex, Was aroused by aesthetic effects... More »

7th, April 2015 Reviews

Valentina Tereshkova's Dream: a lovely film on the first woman in space

In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space. Fifty years later, she gave the interview which forms the basis of this film... More »

7th, April 2015 Sports

New Watch: Arsenal sign the news Lionel Messi

New Watch: an occasional column looking at footballers described as being the 'new' versions of an established world star... More »

7th, April 2015 Music

Rolling Stone: A Rape on Campus is ok but a bad Hootie And The Blowfish review will get you fired

What gets you fired from Rolling Stone magazine? A story that wrongly branded a frat house violent gang rapists will not get your fired. But a bad review of Hootie and the Blowfish might... More »

7th, April 2015 Liverpool 2

Transfer Balls: Raheem Sterling to Real Madrid as 'mid-table' Liverpool look for cash

Transfer Balls looks at Raheem Sterling in today's news. It's going to be a busy summer for the Liverpool striker. To save you the bother of reading a myriad different publications, we'll round-up... More »

7th, April 2015 Celebrities

Casey Batchelor raffles off her new breasts

The Sun has replaced Page 3 and most of Page 2 with the story on Casey Batchelor, a toppless stunna last seen in public frotting a member of middle-aged boyband Blue on Celebrity Big Brother. .. More »

6th, April 2015 Reviews

Rolling Stone and the lie deniers: the unjust 'choose to believe' Jackie's tall story

Jessica Valenti has lots to say about the Rolling Stone story on Jackie, the woman who claimed she'd been gang raped at a University of Virginia frat house in a sickening attack.... More »

6th, April 2015 Arsenal

Arsenal balls: Mesut Ozil makes mugs of the experts

Redknapp tells his Daily Mail readers that "Mesut Ozil is an easy target for ex-pros and pundits..." More »

6th, April 2015 Reviews

Sabrina Rubin Erdely apologises to everyone except the frat she falsely branded as violent gang rapists

Sabrina Rubin Erdely, notorious author of Rolling Stone magazine about a rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, has issued a statement. You can read it in full below. And when you do, look out for her apologising to the victims... More »

6th, April 2015 manchester united

Want to see a video of Manchester United player Marcos Rojo's one-man sex tape?

PSST! Want to see a video of Manchester United star Marcos Rojo masturbating? No, us neither. But the Times, 34, alleges Rojo, 25, sent Sarah Watson just such a recording, along with "explicit messages" and photos.... More »

6th, April 2015 Celebrities

Joey Essex and Amy Childs woo young Thatcherites

The Sun has secured two people to speak up for "hard-working Brits". Miners, carehome workers, northerners and cleaning women were hard to find, so they found the next best workaholics: Joey Essex and Amy Childs off TV's The Only Way Is Essex... More »

6th, April 2015 Liverpool 1

Football's morality: Liverpool's Raheem Sterling is a fair-weather friend

Writing in the Times, Rory Smith nails Raheem Sterling's issue with Liverpool... More »

5th, April 2015 In Pictures 1

Kosher Crucifix Eggs and other Easter fails

Easter time means chocolate eggs, or Lucifer's testicles, as one Church calls them. You'd best play it safe and get your hands on some crucifix-adorned chocolate Easter eggs - which are kosher... More »

5th, April 2015 In Pictures

The Constructed Family: an artist confronts her disturbing past through haunting mannequins

olish-born artist Ursula Sokolowska captures the “helplessness, excommunication, and constant movement” of her childhood in “The Constructed Family”... More »

5th, April 2015 The Consumer

You can buy 3D chocolate Easter eggs of your face

ust in time for Easter, Bompas & Parr invites you to explore the possibilities of the world’s first anatomical Easter eggs – in the shape of your own face!... More »

5th, April 2015 Celebrities

Passsive-aggressive bragging from Ben Fogle in the Sunday Times

The Sunday Times' "Relative Values" feature focues on famous relations. This week, the paper looks at TV presenter Ben Fogle and his father, Bruce.... More »

5th, April 2015 Strange But True

Police arrest Easter Bunny for distributing meth

One more reason to mistrust the Easter Bunny: Police in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, parade one Easter Bunny stuffed with $30,000 worth of meth... More »

5th, April 2015 Liverpool

Liverpool: Rodgers defends the 'boy' Sterling by questioning his intellect

Raheem Sterling is all over the Sunday sports sections. The Liverpool tyro - Liverpool's best player in their 4-1 defeat to Arsenal - is going nowhere... More »

4th, April 2015 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: Daniel Sturridge follows Arsenal defeat with a call to party

Tactful stuff from Liverpool's well-paid forward... More »

4th, April 2015 Celebrities

The Lucille Ball Statue Is Utterly Horrific

Do you love Lucille Ball? If you do, then you can join the Facebook page 'We Love Lucy! Get Rid of this Statue'... More »

4th, April 2015 Arsenal

Transfer balls: Raheem Sterling thinks Manchester United and Arsenal are better than Liverpool

Can it be that Raheem Sterling, the Liverpool tyro, would leave the club to play for Manchester United? The Sun says the deal is on.... More »

4th, April 2015 Strange But True

Photos: leopard, lemurs, snakes and monkeys found in suitcase at Russian airport  

To Domodedovo Airport near Moscow, Russia, were officials have pulled over a woman returning from Indonesia via Qatar.She has failed to decalre the 55 different breeds of snake, 35 lizards, turtles, six lemurs, two monkeys, two baby crocodiles and a baby leopard. More »

4th, April 2015 Celebrities

Texas trooper must undergo counselling after posing for photo with Snoop Dogg

TO TEXAS, where Snoop Dogg is in company of a police officer. Snoop's not under arrest. He's at the South by Southwest festival in Austin to entertain... More »

3rd, April 2015 Celebrities

Peter Dinklage the sex symbol: Tyron Lannister is a busty Cosplay star

It takes a lot of strapping to turn Peter Dinklage into Games of Thrones' hero Tyrion Lannister... More »