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15th, February 2015 Reviews

Virginia Roberts sex slave: Bill Clinton's 'Lolita Express' and the Dalai Lama saves Prince Andrew

The story of Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts, the womn who claims she had sex with him him when she was Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex slave, has slipped down the news cycle... More »

15th, February 2015 Strange But True 1

Woman set fire to Chicago apartment because boyfriend burned all the marijuana

Lopez told police she fell asleep, and when she woke up, her marijuana was gone... More »

15th, February 2015 Gifs

TGIMGIF: designer turns 50-year-old photos into gifs

Designer Cari Vander Yacht has enlivened old phots with her “TGIMGIF” (Thank God It’s Monday’s Graphics Interchange Format). .. More »

14th, February 2015 Reviews 1

Free Speech attacked in Denmark: after the shooting stopped the Passion For Freedom speakers carried on talking

A man has ben shot dead at Copenhagen's Krudttoenden café, where a debate on free speech was underway.... More »

14th, February 2015 Reviews 1

Free speech mystery: Combo the #COEXIST street artist attacked by toughs in Paris

To Paris, where Combo the artist has been beaten up. Combo is French born. His father is a Lebanese Christian father and his mother a Moroccan Muslim... More »

14th, February 2015 Reviews

Tired looking 28-year-old arrested after forgetting wife's name in sham marriage

The Daily Telegraph reports on "Zubair Khan, a 28-year-old Pakistani man, and Beata Szilagyi, a 33-year-old Hungarian woman", who were both arrested in Hull "minutes before their sham ceremony"... More »

14th, February 2015 Liverpool

Transfer Balls: Burnely's Danny Ings dreams of Liverpool and signs two pre-contracts deals with Real Sociedad

Transfer Balls: a look at football nonsense reported as fact in the mainstream media: Today Burnley's Danny Ings is heading to Liverpool and Real Sociedad... More »

14th, February 2015 Sports

QPR and now Aston Villa: the ridiculous rise of Tim Sherwood

Shouty (surely passionate? -ed) Tim Sherwood wants to be manager of QPR, said the Daily Mirror on February 4... More »

13th, February 2015 Film

First drafts: 'Fifty Shits of Grey'

Shit First Drafts has "found a couple of drafts of the Fifty Shades of Grey script"... More »

13th, February 2015 The Consumer

Surf’s Flirty Shades of Surf liquid laundry detergent are Poppers for egg stains

Fifty Shades of Grey has inspired Surf’s Flirty Shades of Surf liquid laundry detergent to “bring a touch of cheekiness to the daily wash”. It is a riot of "scentsual oils". It contains "Alluring Rose and Jasmine", who are not two genie porn star... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

BBC News just interviewed a dog: Russell Brand is away

This is how you get the kids interested in news... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

Rotherham and Halifax: 25 men on trial at Calderdale Magistrates Court were not fuelled by Islam

Writing in the Times, Andrew Norfolk lists the names of the 25 men on trial at Calderdale Magistrates Court "accused of dozens of child-sex offences including multiple rapes, all of them allegedly committed against the same girl"... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

No. Pork has not been banned in Islington schools

Islington Council will no longer serve pork to primary schools because it says it can no longer monitor which pupils don't want to eat sausages, bacon and pork chops due to their religious beliefs. Monitoring is an "unnecessary cost at a time of tight budgets"... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

Canapes and cock: newspaper juxtaposition of the day

Newspaper juxtaposition of the day comes to us via the Suffolk Free Press... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

Teeside thugs Corey Savory and Thomas Vernon do not represent a judiciary in crisis

The Press have been going mad for Corey Savory and Thomas Vernon who "wept in the dock but later left the court grinning with arms aloft and thumbs up"... More »

13th, February 2015 Reviews

Chapel Hill murders: Craig Hicks was driven to murder by race, politics, abortion laws and unarmed targets

Chapel Hill murders: news on alleged murderer Craig Hicks and his three victims Deah Shaddy Barakat, wife Yusor Mohammad and her sister Raza... More »

13th, February 2015 Chelsea

The Daily Mail's got it in for Chelsea

Does the Daily Mail have problem with Cheslea FC? Yesterday the paper led with a question: did Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic bite Everton's James McCarthy. The paper provided some pictorial evidence to help readers best answer... More »

12th, February 2015 Politicians

Juche kitsch: North Korea just created 310 new slogans

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12th, February 2015 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: James Milner has wanted to play for Arsenal and Liverpool for over a year

Transfer Balls: a look at utter drivel passed off as football fact in the mainstream media. Today the Daily Express has news on Manchester City and England footballer James Milner... More »

12th, February 2015 Reviews 1

Woman finds fish hook in fish: because it's America she sues Villagio on the Park

To New York, where Italian restaurant Villagio on the Park is accused of serving a woman a fish hook with a cooked fish attached.... More »

12th, February 2015 Chelsea 1

Talking Balls: the 'family rift' that unites Manchester City and Chelsea fans

The Daily Mail's Joe Bernstein looks at the Premier League match between Stoke City and Manchester City. The Citizens won 4-1. Stoke's goal was scored by Peter Crouch. In his "MATCH ZONE" column, Bernstein writes: "Crouch Gem Causes Family Rift"... More »

12th, February 2015 Celebrities

The worst clickbait headline ever - you'll think journalism is dead when you see this!

Clickbait journalism is the current trend. The newspapers realise that brand loyalty means nothing. It's all about the instant hit. So. The Independent looks for a topic riding high on the news cycle. It spots Bobbi Kristina... More »

12th, February 2015 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: the search costs £9m and counting

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child and Operation Grange... More »

12th, February 2015 Chelsea

Chelsea FC Balls: Branislav Ivanovic smooches Everton's James McCarthy

The Daily Mail sinks its sloppy jaws into Chelsea and Everton with a story on Branislav Ivanovic 'biting' James McCarthy... More »

12th, February 2015 Key Posts

The tabloid story of Devinder Kainth, Sandro Rottman and not Katie Price nor Princess Beatrice

By now you'll be wondering what Katie Price has been up to. How are the kids and her husband-of-the-moment? Today brings new front page of Katie Price news. In "STAR'S LINK TO PERV" (Sun) and "Katie Price link to the German paedo" (Star) the tabloids lead with photos of Price and Sandro Rottman, a 43-year-old who had the misfortune to be killed in a Spanish eatery... More »