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29th, July 2013 Reviews

Divisive immigration posters should include a humour test for illegals

New Home Office adverts urge illegal immigrants to"'go home or face arrest"? Leaflets are being distributed in East and West London boroughs... More »

28th, July 2013 Key Posts

Caroline Criado-Perez: twitter trolls and narks show us how police bigotry works

Do the police use an even hand when confronting the Twitter mob in full cry? No... More »

28th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Fabregas agrees his 'absurd' move to Manchester United

Balls: a look at the Daily Express' stella reporting on Manchester United's moves for Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas. These are the headlines... More »

28th, July 2013 Celebrities

Howe do they do it? Playboy twin linked to will.i.am

Twin topelss Playboy models hit the Sun again... More »

28th, July 2013 Royal Family

Prince George: The Daily Mirror fills pages with hate and love for Royal baby

How does the Daily Mirror report on Prince George? With confusion, covering all angles in a welter of hagiographic praise and anti-monarchical rants presented as Republicanism: More »

28th, July 2013 Celebrities 2

Jimmy Savile Horror: the 'secret lair' above a Manchester record shop and 650 'victims'

"Celebrity arrests could soar after police discover DJ's secret lair at record shop - Names and sexual details of hundreds of girls were scrawled across huge wall in a scene from a horror film.." More »

28th, July 2013 Sports 1

Transfer balls: Spurs sell Gareth Bale for less than Real Madrid's failed bid

More news on Bale... More »

28th, July 2013 Flashback

The 1931 cooked hot-dog vending machine

In 1931, you could buy a warm sausage from a German vending machine, like this one... More »

28th, July 2013 Politicians 1

Theresa May has diabetes - the Mail says that's 'shocking'

What could be the matter with Home Secretary Theresa May? Whatever it is, it sounds terrible. The Mail on Sunday leads with: "THERESA MAY: MY SHOCKING ILLNESS!"... More »

27th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Gareth Bale will leave Spurs for Real Madrid after a few friendlies, maybe

The Daily Bale: a look at the transfer news surrounding Spurs' star man Gareth Bale in the past 24 hours.... More »

27th, July 2013 Film 1

Francis Ford Coppola's original cast list for The Godfather

Dustin Hoffman..? More »

27th, July 2013 Reviews

In photos: North Korea marks Armistice Day - 60th anniversary of Korean War ending

On July 27 1953, the Korean War ended... More »

27th, July 2013 Reviews

What Teachers Make - a poetic answer to the idiots who wonder what a good teacher does

Show them the money... More »

27th, July 2013 Sports

Former Newcastle United player Nile Ranger gets own name tattooed on his face

Ranger goes Tonto... More »

27th, July 2013 Reviews

Broadwater Farm: Nicholas Jacobs harks back to when the racist State attacked black youth

Nicholas Jacobs was 16 at the time of PC Blakelocks's murder. He was a teenger who had grown up in a ghetto patrolled by the State's racist goons... More »

27th, July 2013 The Consumer

Does smoking marijuana make you slimmer and control insulin? Does God make you fat?

Does god make you fat?... More »

27th, July 2013 Reviews

Wash your hands kids or else the UNICEF clown will get you

In 2012, those hygiene thinking Uzbeks employed a clown to remind the kinder that failure to wash their hands would result in a hiding they would never forget.... More »

27th, July 2013 Politicians

Eight-metre tall naked man pissing in a river makes waves in Sweden

Charles Clarke, the former Labour Home Secretary, has been honoured with a statue worthy of his talent... More »

27th, July 2013 Sports 1

Luis Suarez Transfer balls: Arsenal have history - Liverpool have death threats and deadlines

More balls... More »

27th, July 2013 Reviews

Jamaican police clampdown on snorting soap powder 'cocaine'

‘‘How stupid can you be? Hasn’t anyone told them you don’t smuggle drugs into Jamaica, you smuggle drugs out of Jamaica?”... More »

27th, July 2013 Strange But True

Indian Army thinks planets Venus and Jupiter are Chinese war drones

The Indian Army believes Jupiter and Venus are not planets; but Chinese drones... More »

27th, July 2013 Technology 1

Mr Buss invents and rides the bubble wrap bike

Jealous, much..? More »

26th, July 2013 Reviews

Adverts tells NASCAR fans to buy hangover-free, lo-cal marijuana not beer

Created by the Marijuana Policy Project, the message is that marijuana is the new, lo-cal, hangover-free, wife-beating-negative beer.. More »

26th, July 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: post heatwave news

No news update... More »

26th, July 2013 Politicians

Before A. Weiner stood for office there was Bill Boner and Harry Baals

A Weiner wants to be mayor of New York City. You might laugh at the nominative determinism. We did. But what about others who dared to dick around in office?... More »