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3rd, February 2015 Sports 2

Transfer Balls: Spurs spend £100,000-a-week to spite QPR and West Ham

Transfer Balls: So, how was the transfer window for Spurs' striker Emmanuel Adebayor... More »

3rd, February 2015 Film

American Sniper: Bradley Cooper's Slipknot drive to remake news as entertainment

"Cooper would often place a picture of Kyle on the wall of the gym and he blasted Kyle’s personal playlist during workouts, listening to the kind of music that defined Kyle, everything from Metallica and Slipknot to Toby Keith..." More »

3rd, February 2015 Reviews

Ban Yik Yak: 'We must indoctrinate a captive audience to particular controversial viewpoints'

Very few people have acted in a noble, kind or intelligent manner under the veil of anonymity. Yik-Yak, the popular anonymous sharing and messaging app, showcases the vitriol that can lurk behind a generally polite and pleasant campus... More »

3rd, February 2015 Strange But True

Vegetarian restaurant owner did not want to kill cockroaches on moral grounds

Kingsland Vegetarian Restaurant owner Khanh Hoang says he did not get rid of the cockroaches infesting his restaurant because as a committed vegetarian killing little insect goes against all he holds dear.... More »

3rd, February 2015 manchester united

Manchester United profit on Wilfried Zaha: What Crystal Palace transfer really cost

Manchester United have sold Wilfried Zaha back to Crystal Palace. The Daily Express is agog and outraged.... More »

2nd, February 2015 Reviews

The music behind the worst album covers ever

We love bad album covers. But what about the music behind the photos? YouTuber Jimbo Stephens has matched the covers with the cuts... More »

2nd, February 2015 Reviews

The comfort of censorship and willful blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious

Debate is dying. Free speech is under threat. We are living in the Age of Comfort. We are the willful blind. Is that new? No, says Margaret Heffernan. She examines what “we could know, and should know, but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know... the more tightly we focus, the more we leave out”. We enjoy the peace of mind darkness brings.... More »

2nd, February 2015 Arsenal

'Huge' Transfer Balls for Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United but not Southampton or Reading

ransfer Balls: As the January Deadline Day shuts the Daily Express tosses more balls than Rebecca Loos in a piggery... More »

2nd, February 2015 Reviews 1

Molly Crabapple: Wear your FBI file with pride

Molly Crabapple (seen here sketching the Ferguson protests) is being observed by the FBI. The FBI has a juicy file on the Molly. She should wear it as badge of honour. But first she's going to read it... More »

2nd, February 2015 Sports

How BBC kept Match of the Day from ITV's clutches

FOOTBALL fans who don't look at the Premier League goals on Twitter or streamed matches over the web, can delight in the news that BBC has retained the rights to show Premier League highlights on Saturday nights... More »

2nd, February 2015 Sports

Transfer Balls: Gary Lineker wants the banks to close for deadline day

Gary Lineker shares his thoughts on football's Transfer Deadline Day... More »

2nd, February 2015 Key Posts

Fragile ladies and raping males: welcome to life on University campus

The assumption is that allowing anything that a loon or agenda-driven censor could decry as 'racist', 'sexist' or 'homophobic' would trigger race riots and convince slack-jawed male students that women's rights, equality and debate are wrong... More »

2nd, February 2015 Reviews

White man can dance: Swedish men demonstrate the bear dance

To avoid the pain you need a set manly dance. So. Here are two Swedish gentlemen demonstrating 'The Bear Dance'. The soothing background music only adds to the wonder... More »

2nd, February 2015 Strange But True 1

9-year-old boy 'terrorist' suspended for calling a classmate 'black', showing a pregnancy book and brandishing a 'magic' ring

To Kermit, Texas, where 9-year-old Aiden Stewart has been suspended from school for "making a terroristic threat". Aiden told a classmate he could make him disappear with a magic ring, just like the magic rings in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, a movie he had seen a few days earlier... More »

2nd, February 2015 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal signed 74 players in the Transfer Window

Transfer Balls has been following the mainstream media's scattergun reports on Arsenal. This January the Gunners have been linked via the national Press with the purchase of 73 players. Yeah, that's all. The new Gunners are.... More »

2nd, February 2015 Reviews

The Daily Express never ceases to be amazed by snow

The Daily Express has a thing about snow. It's finds it utterly incredible, reporting on its arrival in the manner of Chicken Licken poiting at the falling sky... More »

1st, February 2015 Film

Ghostbusters: First peek at new all-female Ghostbusters movie

The news Ghostbusters movie is an all-female affair. It's going to be fan-tastic. Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray were at the top of their games when the first Ghostbusters film hit the big screens. But who needs them when you have a script like this?... More »

1st, February 2015 Key Posts

Internet journalist don't need a union to tell them George Bush had a plastic turkey for Thanksgiving

Anorak has employed journalists for over 15 years. And not one - not one - has been a union member. Why not? The Washington Post ... More »

1st, February 2015 Sports 1

Free Speech: Robert Huth is made to sit on the FA's Stasi-styled naughty step

Robert Huth was born in Biesdorf, East Berlin. He's a footballer about to move between English Premiership clubs, signing for Leicester City from Stoke City, having also played for Chelsea. He's a big unit, tough and aware his talent lies in stopping goals rather than creating them. He's witty, too.... More »

1st, February 2015 Sports 8

Transfer Balls: Spurs buy Jay Rodriguez for £5m less than Liverpool and Manchester City got him for

More utter balls... More »

31st, January 2015 Celebrities

Bobbi Kristina Brown: Roswell Police Department make the link

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31st, January 2015 Reviews

A handy guide to dealing with online abuse: print out and keep

Have you been called names online? Has some no-mark tweeted something you disagree with? Were you offended? Well, before you call the police and become a nark, take a look at this handy guide to dealing with online abuse... More »

31st, January 2015 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Marco Reus wants Chelsea, gets Arsenal, loves Manchester United and signs for Real Madrid

Transfer Balls: The Daily Express says: Arsenal leading Man Utd and Chelsea in race for Marco Reus Which clubs are in the chase? Let's see... More »

31st, January 2015 Strange But True

Trucker pulling his own tooth caused dramatic accident

Next time just don't wear a seatbelt: The accident, which happened just before 10:30pm, was caused when a self-employed tractor trailer driver took his hands off the wheel to pull a loose tooth from his mouth... More »

31st, January 2015 Celebrities 1

Topless Chelsea Handler makes the Middle East war sexually arousing

Chelsea Handler has sat topless on a naked camel. It's a statement, Handler says: "A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And, You don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.".. More »