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21st, December 2014 Reviews

Would you legalise guns in the UK? Home burglar shot

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21st, December 2014 Reviews

Let's spread Manspread and fight the war on manhood before you all pee sitting down

Men are swine who take up too much space on public transport. Men need to sit more like women do. The Gothamist filmed a woman with a tape measure confronting men on the subway about the space they consume... More »

21st, December 2014 Reviews

Torture: British soldiers investigated for touching a Taliban's nose

Does Britain torture detainees? The Telegraph is doing a spot of Army PR: A British soldier was investigated for touching a Taliban fighter on the nose with a sheet of paper during a routine interrogation.... More »

21st, December 2014 Reviews 2

Knives out for Alan Henning's widow: Barbara Henning accused of love

Innocent Alan Henning was murdered by Islamic State. Now read on in the Sun: THE wife of beheaded hostage Alan Henning is having an affair with her brother-in-law. Widow Barbara, 47, now lives with Pat Kenyon, husband of the murdered cabbie’s sister Gill, 50. Victim Alan died without realising his wife had fallen in love with her brother-in-law... More »

20th, December 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: the desperate story of Alexis Sanchez

Matt Hughes and Tony Barrett explain the Liverpool transfer policy. Having missed out on the wonderful Alexis Sanchez to Arsenal, Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool looked around for a player... More »

20th, December 2014 Reviews

The pupils are alright at the Army Public School in Peshawar

The Islamists murdered 16 teachers and 132 children at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mishal Husain from the Today programme, writes in the Telegraph.... More »

20th, December 2014 Sports

West Ham United's Karren Brady uses her Sun diary to plug Sky Sports

West Ham United bigshot Karren Brady writes a 'Football Diary' for the Sun (prop R. Murdoch). Let's pick out a couple of comments... More »

20th, December 2014 Sports

Hartlepool wants to sign footballer Ched Evans: the rapist Ched Evans comes in 2-4-1 package

Hartlepool must be hard up... More »

20th, December 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: 'troubled' Mario Balotelli's ADHT, abandonment issues and kryptonite seatbelt

Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is the subejct of the Sun story: "Kop star’s secret"... More »

20th, December 2014 Sports

The most ridiculous football club Christmas presents: the Norwich City Tambourine, Liverpool Coffee Tin and more

Over on Pies: the most ridiculous football club-themed gifts for Christmas... More »

20th, December 2014 Reviews

The Sun joins Ukip in monstering Roma gypsies and their 'thug' children

The Sun tells of "The gypsy thugs bringing terror to our classrooms". Beneath a photo of "Defiant, Lorraine Larkings and son Rhys, who was beaten up at school", we read a "SUN INVESTIGATION By STEWART WHITTINGHAM"... More »

20th, December 2014 Strange But True

Call David Icke: scientists invent new lizard

Each year, scientists publish roughly 17,000 detailed descriptions of newly discovered animals. Recently, in the journal Breviora, researchers described yet another, a new species of lizard called Aspidoscelis neavesi... More »

20th, December 2014 Film

The Interview: the best reactions to Sony's cyber war with North Korea

Obama and the FBI blame the hacking attacks against Sony Pictures on North Korea. Who knew the DPRK regime was capable? The hacks were triggered by the The Interview, in which two American journalists played by James Franco and Seth Rogen set out to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Amid threats of movie theater terrorism, Sony pulled the film from its Christmas Day release. Reactions have been many... More »

20th, December 2014 Arsenal

Arsaenal Balls: The 'real' reason Sanchez chose Gunners over Liverpool is...

So. Why did Alexis Sanchez choose to play for Arsenal? The Daily Star has the truth. The headline declares: Arsene Wenger reveals the REAL REASON why Alexis Sanchez chose Arsenal over Liverpool... More »

19th, December 2014 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Manchester United get Reus who doesn't move to Manchester United

The most shameless balls in the Daily Star... More »

19th, December 2014 Reviews 1

Daily Mail story on foreign nurses is utter balls

News in the Daily Mail of nurses and foreigners: come over here, saving our lives... More »

19th, December 2014 Sports

Newcastle v Sunderland balls: Adam Johnson mocks 'fuming' Magpies, calmly

It's Newcastle United v Sunderland in the big north-east inter-city derby. And the media are on it... More »

19th, December 2014 Books 1

Howard Jacobson: why Christians make the best Nazis and Islamofascism is a myth

Christianity is key here,' says Jacobson. ‘Muslims have needed the Jew less [historically], although there’s a lot of Muslim anti-Semitism now due to the Middle East. [But] Christianity’s had to leave [Judaism] behind, so it’s had to hate it, it’s had to say, we are not that, we are not that anymore, and then to say we were never that - so that’s a necessary hatred.’... More »

19th, December 2014 Celebrities

Mandy Rice-Davies: sex, society and wonderful photos

The life and times of the woman who kick-started the Swinging 60s... More »

19th, December 2014 Key Posts

Westminster paedophiles: we shouldn't give a toss what the police 'believe'

Two newspapers lead with the news of alleged Westminster paedophiles who allegedly murdered children in the 1970s and 1980s. The media call these alleged killers and perverts 'VIPs'. Doesn't the acronym VIP place these alleged crimes firmly in their time. In the 1970s, VIPs were all the rage.... More »

19th, December 2014 Technology 2

Pirate Bay is dead but Tribler will never die

The BitTorrent system was supposed to be mortally wounded on December 9, when police in Sweden raided a server farm in Stockholm on December 9th. The Pirate Bay, EZTV, Istole, Zoink and Torrage are took a big hit... More »

18th, December 2014 Sports

Football balls: Bale eyes Arsenal, RVP 'snubs' Di Maria at Manchester United, a Liverpool flop and a Chelsea dive

What utter balls.... More »

18th, December 2014 Technology

How to build a human, by Eleanor Lutz

A user guide... More »

18th, December 2014 Reviews 1

Saudi Arabia arrests six men for anti-Islam Geert Wilders cake

Saudi Arabia's ridiculous sounding The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia has arrested six Arab men for selling cakes deemed offensive to Islam... More »

18th, December 2014 Reviews

Westminster paedophiles are like Jimmy Savile and Peter Jaconelli: guilty now that they're dead

Tim Hick, Crime and Parliamentary Affairs Correspondent for the North Yorkshire Enquirer, has news... More »