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12th, January 2015 manchester united

Manchester United Transfer Balls: Aymeric Laporte and Nathaniel Clyne make it 30

Manchester United Transfer Balls: let’s catch-up with players signed by United this January Transfer window. The experts in the mainstream media have been informative... More »

12th, January 2015 Reviews 6

Jews deserve to be murdered wherever they are: Well, so says the BBC

The BBC reporter Tim Wilcox is talking to a Jewish woman scared for her future in the face of murderous anti-Semitism... More »

12th, January 2015 Reviews

Fox News gaffe-master Steve Emerson says sorry to the people of the Birmingham (now twinned with Mecca)

#Jewsuisunexpert... More »

11th, January 2015 Reviews 3

Fox News expert on Islam UK: Only Muslims are allowed to enter Birmingham

Terrorism 'expert' Steven Emerson states that Birmingham, UK is 'entirely Muslim' and that non Muslims 'simply don't go in'... More »

11th, January 2015 Key Posts 2

What no Muslim anti-semitism? The media focus on Islamophobia ignores attacks on Jews

The Charlie Hebdo massacre and murders at a kosher supermarket in Paris got everyone talking about free speech. But what about the racism? More »

11th, January 2015 Sports

Paul Gascoigne Death Watch: The Sun scans Gazza's 'slippers' for signs of a story

Paul Gascoigne Liver Watch: the Sun can't leave Paul Gascoinge alone. The former Spurs, Newcastle and England footballer has been fighting alcoholism.... More »

11th, January 2015 Celebrities

Gun-toting Glenn Beck says 'We must stand together against all violence'

All violence? Or just fights you can't win? More »

11th, January 2015 Reviews

Man-eating tortoise clamped onto drunk's lip after he attempted to eat it alive

Man-eating tortoise... More »

11th, January 2015 Strange But True 1

Woman shoots husband who surprised her with breakfast

It was 10:15am in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when Zia Segule, 28, left for work. He headed home to surprise his wife with breakfast.... More »

11th, January 2015 Reviews 1

Germany's Hamburg Morgenpost attacked after reprinting Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons

A minor incident... More »

10th, January 2015 Reviews 1

Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson vomits on those demanding more Mohammed cartoons

Choose your poison... More »

10th, January 2015 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal sign Mandzukic, Bony, Berahino, Stegen and Rodriguez

Throughout this January Tranfer Window, Anorak has been noting the players Arsenal are going to sign. .. More »

10th, January 2015 Reviews

Charlie Hebdo to The Pope, Obama, Putin and Prince Harry: 'We vomit on all these people'

You looking for a hero for the Charlie Hebdo story? Look no futher than Dutch cartoonist Bernard Holtrop.... More »

10th, January 2015 Sports

Ched Evans: blame Operation Yewtree for the hysterical trolls

The forces used to stymie Evans’s return to football are extrajudicial, unfair and counter to the principle of rehabilitation of offenders. But this is not mob rule. Evans is simply unfortunate to have committed his crime at a moment when attitudes to rape and sexual violence have undergone a sudden, profound shift.... More »

10th, January 2015 Reviews

Regret the error: newspaper says police 'desire to shoot minorities'

Newspaper correction of the week... More »

10th, January 2015 Reviews

Free Speech - Charlie Hebdo: leftwing 'anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry

The irony is that those who most suffer from a culture of censorship are minority communities themselves. Any kind of social change or social progress necessarily means offending some deeply held sensibilities... More »

10th, January 2015 manchester united

Transfer Balls: plucky 'underdogs' Manchester United seduce Mats Hummels

Transfer Balls: Are Manchester United buying Mats Hummels, the Borissia Dortmund and Germany defender?... More »

9th, January 2015 Music

The Clash Revisited: Watch Julien Temple’s film on the punk ‘revolution’

Julien Temple’s latest raking of the coals of the punk ‘revolution’ looks at The Clash – a band often regarded with disdain and suspicion by the courtiers of the Sex Pistols (and indeed by the Pistols themselves).... More »

9th, January 2015 Reviews

Copyright crims: Universal sues prisoners over mix tapes

Chances are that if you are being sent mix tapes in prison you are not all that rich. But Universal music wants its cut of the pie... More »

9th, January 2015 Celebrities

Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein advert before they Photoshopped his thumbs

Justin Bieber has been showing us his Calvin Klein pull-ups... More »

9th, January 2015 Reviews

Face of the day: Julien paints a portrait of the French cartoonist Jean Cabut

Face of the day... More »

9th, January 2015 Reviews

Next week's Charlie Hebdo cover: 'Urgent - hiring 6 new journalists'

Excellent... More »

9th, January 2015 Sports

Who Replaces Andy Townsend at ITV Football: hooting simpletons, 'better' bores and other options

RAPTUROUS cheers broke out across Britain yesterday as ITV confirmed that Andy Townsend's contract won't be renewed when it expires in the summer... More »

9th, January 2015 Reviews

Transfer Balls: When Arsenal buy Isco and Ronaldo to spite Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea

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9th, January 2015 Key Posts

Je Suis Charlie Hebdo: but Obama, Clinton and all the free speech loving cowards don't want to be him

"Je Suis Charlkie Hebdo". Everyone's saying it. Free speech rules! The British politians who want to regulate journalists; the Twitter narks; the police; and the newly Enlightened all just love Charlie Hebdo and that free speech... More »