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17th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Negredo's brain took six days to pick Manchester City

Are Manchester City going to sign Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo? Lets see what the experts in the news media are saying... More »

17th, July 2013 Money

Spotify is overpaying Thom Yorke and The Bleaters

The latest is the row about how the royalty streams from Spotify are too low turns up in The Guardian. As you might expect from that paper there's a great deal of indignation and not a lot of light and sense. More »

17th, July 2013 Key Posts 61

The Left wing hates Israel because it despises the Western way of life

For me, the most striking thing about the left’s attitude to Israel is how much it has changed, how sweepingly it has been transformed over the past couple of generations.... More »

17th, July 2013 Flashback

1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl's Court flat

Lady Diana Spencer's look of astonishment as she stalls her car -... More »

17th, July 2013 Strange But True

Invisible sex scares teachers stiff

“The male teachers complained that they have been having sex with women they cannot see. This has been happening to them for about three weeks.... More »

17th, July 2013 Reviews 1

The Trayvon Martin verdict: a great chance to pump up your Facebook stats

“Anyone who uses news of a tragedy as bait to increase their number of Facebook likes is an ass. Hit ‘like’ if you agree!”... More »

17th, July 2013 Reviews

Trayvon Martin: hooded black Howard University School of Medicine students 'kill' in Chelsea and Millwall 'kits'

Which looks the more suspect - the black men in white coats or the black men in hoods? ... More »

17th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Everton's Marouane Fellaini hopes Manchester United save him from his Arsenal dreams

Transfer Balls: Everton star Marouane Fellaini has been filling acres of ink this summer. Is he off to Arsenal? ... More »

17th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Chelsea 'offer' £80m for Manchester United understudy Wayne Rooney

The latest Rooney newzzzz..... More »

17th, July 2013 Reviews

Journalists who revealed alleged rape victim's address wrongly relied on the police

The online paper shopped the alleged victim by publishing a picture and video of police entering the crime scene, which happened to be the woman's home.... More »

16th, July 2013 In Pictures

The world's most terrifying and spellbinding staircases

We've trawled the web and our memory banks to bring you the world's most terrifying, spellbinding and plain awesome public staircases... More »

16th, July 2013 The Consumer

Chicken McNugget rage video: customer threatens to eat waitress's face and 'shit it out into the gutter'

I like Chicken McNuggets. You like Chicken McNuggets. This woman loves chicken McNuggets.... More »

16th, July 2013 In Pictures

The Red Bull Soapbox Race in photos

The Red Bull Soapbox Race features team racing down a hill at London's Ally Pally... More »

16th, July 2013 Sports 1

Man catches baseball thrown from helicopter flying 1,050ft above him

Zack Hample has set a world record by holding on to a baseball that was lobbed out of a helicopter flying 1,050ft above him, with the ball reaching speeds of 95mph!... More »

16th, July 2013 Strange But True 1

We have a new Jesus and he's Australian

And so, to Alan John Miller who claims he's Jesus Christ, and he announced himself to everyone in Britain by getting all holy on ITV ‘s This Morning... More »

16th, July 2013 Film

Railway Children gets first complaint in 42 years

"The correspondent was concerned that children may be encouraged to play on railway tracks as a result of seeing the film," the BBFC's annual report stated... More »

16th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Christian Benteke snubs Spurs and Chelsea for £30m Turkse Rangers

Transfer Balls: A look at Aston Villa's want away striker Christian Benteke in the news media... More »

16th, July 2013 Flashback

Egotism, 'female disease' and other ways to get locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (photos)

This is a list of reasons for admission from the late 1800s. It pretty much covers everything, although a few-stand-out notables are... More »

16th, July 2013 Books 1

Trayvon Martin: Juror B37 and her book's agent crawl back under their rocks

Juror B37 sat on the George Zimmerman trial that questioned how Trayvon Martin has come to be shot dead... More »

16th, July 2013 Reviews

Free ice-cream for every gay marriage

One more reason to get married.... More »

16th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Manchester United make Wayne Rooney an offer he can refuse as Chelsea mafia pounce

How's Wayne Rooney's summer panning out? He's injured his leg in Bangkok (innocent - it was entirely innocent; he can explain everything...) and eaten a Pot noodle at Glastonbury. Now read on... More »

16th, July 2013 Politicians

Conservatives admit policy on single mothers is just mindless filler

What does the Conservative Party have to say about single mums?... More »

16th, July 2013 Flashback

Cocksucker Blues - Groupies sex and shooting up heroin: The Rolling Stones epic and banned documentary

In 1972, long before The Rolling Stones were pop's Establishment act headlining Glastonbury and making Prince Harry and smug BBC DJs dance in their yurts, they were rebellion personified... More »

15th, July 2013 Strange But True

This hairless guinea pig looks like a baby hippo

Didyou know that hairless guinea pig looks like a baby hippo? Well, it does... More »

15th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Spurs and Arsenal chase Croatia superstar to Italy

Balls... More »