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18th, March 2015 Fashion

Daily Mail invites readers to perv at 'underge' American Apparel model in her underwear

Irony overload in the Daily Mail, which brings news that an advert by fashion company American Apparel has had "ANOTHER advert banned, this time for 'too sexy' photos of underage-looking model in thong bodysuit"... More »

18th, March 2015 Reviews 1

The monstering of David Nicholson: spanking the Basingstoke headmaster

Day 2 of the Sun's monstering of David Nicholson, the Basingstoke school headmaster accused of using school computers to contact prostitutes. Having read that Mr Nicholson never did have sex or spank either of the women he allegedly contacted on school time, we learn on page 12... More »

18th, March 2015 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: British police baffled why they are looking for her

Madeleine McCann peers out from the front-page of the Daily Star. The familiar picture of the holidaymaker who became 'Our Maddie, illustrates the story that there is no news. .. More »

17th, March 2015 Reviews

Was Basingstoke school headmaster in kinky uniform sex caper driven to it by the Sun?

In "Head hires hooker to dress as schoolgirl - EXCLUSIVE: Top Sir probed over sordid texts", the Sun zooms in on "married dad" David Nicholson, 48. The front-page story goes that Nicholson, a headteacher at Costello School in Basingstoke, Hampshire, allegedly used his work computer to send "one hooker X-rated messages"... More »

17th, March 2015 Sports

Sunderland police and the frenzied search for Adam Johnson

NEWS is that the police have raided the Sunderland dressing room. No, not looking for mogodon or any other drugs that lead to malcoordination and apathy. They were seeking anything that can aid the investigation into claims that Adam Johnson had sexual contact with an underage girl. ... More »

17th, March 2015 Strange But True 1

Epic fail: White man pants face black to avoid police

Jose Espinoza wanted to hide from the police. So. He spray-painted his face black and drove off in a stolen car... More »

17th, March 2015 Royal Family

Prince Harry makes 'really tough decision' to be stinking rich and lark about

Prince Harry Baseball Cap will be leaving the Army in June. Kensington Palace says the prince is at a "crossroads" and leaving the Army had been a "really tough decision... More »

16th, March 2015 Chelsea

Embarrassing endorsements: Islamic State's Jake Bilardi cheers for Chelsea

When 17-year-old Australian Islamic State fighter, Jake Bilardi, died in a suicide bombing attack, we all saw the photo. There was Jake in his Chelsea kit... More »

16th, March 2015 Politicians

The Over-Firm Denial: Grant Scapps' leptologia is a gift to the English language

This week the English language welcomed the phrase "overfirm denials"... More »

16th, March 2015 In Pictures

Tibetan monks unveil huge painting of Buddha (photos)

To Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County, China's Gansu Province, to see Buddhist monks unveil a massive picture of Buddha... More »

16th, March 2015 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Pogba signs for Manchester United and PSG as Marco Verratti joins and leaves Arsenal

Transfer Balls looks at Paul Pogba news. The Daily Express says Pogba has dealt Chesla huge "BLOW"... More »

16th, March 2015 Key Posts 1

Westminster paedophiles: Bulic Forsythe, when PIE went gay and the death of scepticism

Westminster paedophiles: a look at reporting on allegations that VIPs abused and murdered children in the 1970s and 1980s.... More »

16th, March 2015 Reviews

Nominative determinism: meet ISIS 'apologist' Furkan Derya

The Daily Telegraph calls Furkan Derya.... More »

16th, March 2015 Reviews

31 minutes a night more sleep can kill you (but at last you won't get diabetes)

The Daily Express often leads with news of diabetes cures. In 2014, the Express told its reads that diabetes had been cured by cheese, jabs, chocolate, pills and sunshine. Today the paper says diabetes can be prevented by...sleeping.... More »

15th, March 2015 Celebrities

Elton John kicks Dolce & Gabbana out of the gay community centre

Whoah! Put that down that FLloral Jacquard Waistcoat and Bolero Jacket with Trimming (£ 3,300.00)! Think on. Anyone ready to buy that or a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt (RRP. £445) should first know that Elton John says you must not... More »

15th, March 2015 Reviews

Forget the #TekTimeCov murder: the real crime was on SnapChat

News of a teenager stabbed to death ouside a Coventry nightclub is reported thus in the Daily Mirror: Sick revellers 'took photos of teenager dying from stab wounds and posted them on SnapChat'... More »

15th, March 2015 Strange But True

Proof that pets do go to Heaven (video)

Televangelist Jack Van Impe and his wife Rexella have news to thrill... More »

15th, March 2015 Reviews

Free Shilan Ozcelik the Londoner arrested for wanting to fight ISIS

Shilan Ozcelik, who is of Kurdish descent, was nicked at Stansted airport, having travelled from her family home in Holloway, north London. She faces a charge of "engaging in conduct in preparation for giving effect to an intention to commit acts of terrorism under the 2006 Terrorism Act"... More »

15th, March 2015 Music

Blurred Lines: The Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight is The Ketchup Song

Blurred Lines: a look at songs that sound very much like other songs. Let's look at the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight and the Ketchup Song (Asereje) by Las Ketchup... More »

15th, March 2015 Reviews

Wiltshire headmistress punished naughty children by phoning God

To St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School in Devizes, Wiltshire, where God is on the phone. There is talk of "outrage" that headmistress Sheila Jones "humiliated children" by standing in the school's prayer room and telling God via her mobile phone that the children had misbehaved... More »

15th, March 2015 Strange But True

Man busted for dipping cotton wool on McDonald's coffee and rubbing them over his skin

Cotton balls and coffee... More »

14th, March 2015 Politicians

Beyond parody: feminist Government wants to ban designer vaginas

The bansturbators have a new target: your vagina. Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the select committee, wants to celebrate freedom and promote feminism by controlling what a woman can do with her vagina... More »

14th, March 2015 Politicians

The greatest ever TV caption: at home with the Young Conservative

Still the greatest ever TV caption... More »

13th, March 2015 Liverpool 2

Liverpool Balls: Raheem Sterling is off to Bayern Munich in an 'exclusive'

The Sun has an "exclusive". News is that Raheem Sterling has yet to sign a deal to prolong his stay at Liverpool... More »

13th, March 2015 Reviews

Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell remain inconveniently innocent

The story of Prince Andrew and the underage 'sex slave' Victoria Roberts has down the British media's newscycle. But elsewhere it nags on. Roberts claims to have shagged Prince Andrew three times while working as Jeffrey Epstein's 'masseuse'. Andrew denies it. All we know for certain is that they've met.... More »