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5th, July 2013 Celebrities 1

Westboro Baptist Church writes Taylor's Swift's album sleeve notes - 'THE WHORISH FACE OF DOOMED AMERICA'

It's the widely held belief that getting slammed and damned by the Westboro Baptist Church is an enviable badge of honour. If you upset them, then it's a nailed-on certainty that your living life well... More »

5th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Wayne Rooney met Moyes six times this week when his agent was out of the country

Rooney Transfer Balls: A look at the Manchester United star in the news More »

5th, July 2013 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann: 38 'suspects', parents ruled out and new theories

Anorak's look at the missing child dubbed 'Our Maddie' in the news... More »

4th, July 2013 Reviews 2

James Bulger: John Venables is free again

He's coming out. One of James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, will be freed from prison... More »

4th, July 2013 Sports 2

Transfer Balls: Manchester City get 18m-rated Alvaro Negredo for £28m

Today we look at Manchester City's moves to spunk lots of cash of footballers... More »

4th, July 2013 Celebrities 3

Professor Green calls female journalist a 'fat whore' for invading his privacy - works for Chinese mobile phone company accused of spying

Irony overload.... More »

4th, July 2013 Reviews

Reporter embarrasses videobombers on TV

If these jokers are happy to draw attention to themselves in the background of a news segment, then why not invite them on-air and have a nice chat with them?... More »

4th, July 2013 Film

Hollywood: How the Zombie beat The Cowboy

“Sometime in 2011 the total number of film plots with the keyword ‘zombie’ passed the number of film plots with the keyword ‘cowboy’.... More »

4th, July 2013 Money

Don't panic: an extra minute in the shower will wash away that horrible Puritan spirit

Have we been taken over by some alien race of puritans or something? They're telling us today that having a long shower is a "waste". One that we should righteously avoid... More »

4th, July 2013 Film

Thumbs & Ammo - the funniest pictures of movie guns replaced by thumbs

The premise is simple: replace guns in movies with thumbs... More »

4th, July 2013 Reviews

Bulger Killer Jon Venables is back to put the Government on trial

Jon Venables is back in the news. One of the two boys who murdered James Bulger, aged 2, is the subject of the Sun's front-page story... More »

4th, July 2013 TV & Radio

Wendy Hurrell is the BBC weather forecaster who did something unpredictable

Let's thank Wendy Hurrell, who following her BBC London forecast on Monday night pulled a face like thunder. Her sunny disposition changed in a flash... More »

4th, July 2013 Celebrities 1

Jennifer Aniston is a born again virgin

How's life treating unmarried middle-aged mum-of-none Jennifer Aniston *. This week, she's eaten a McDonald's... More »

4th, July 2013 Reviews

Fist fight in church after family save pew seats

To Utah's Meadows Ward, where at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a missionary farewell and a baby blessing. A family there to see the blessing were sat in a pew... More »

4th, July 2013 Key Posts 3

Egypt deposes the Muslim Brotherhood: the best Anti-Obama banners

Looks like the Arab Spring is over in Egypt. President Morsi has been toppled by the military. The Muslim Brotherhood must be a tad disappointed that a secular dictatorship is back in charge. Will they back any new Government? Or will they try to usurp it? ... More »

4th, July 2013 Strange But True

Family lock dad's head in helmet cage to stop him smoking

Once they put the smokers in a room, it would not be long before the put them in cages. You're looking at pictures of 42-year-old İbrahim Yücel... More »

4th, July 2013 Key Posts 1

Robert Samuelson's Internet repeal

WaPo veteran Robert Samuelson is a Very Important Pundit who became an online laughingstock this week after publishing a Very Serious Column suggesting life would be safer and better if only humanity would abandon this newfangled dad-blasted “Internet” thingy... More »

4th, July 2013 Sports

Spurs fans can thank Daniel Levy for keeping Garth Bale

Spurs fans can thank Daniel Levy for keeping Garth Bale... More »

4th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer Balls: Wayne Rooney vows to stay at Manchester United in a sit-down stand-off

WAyne Rooney Transfer Balls: Will the Manchester United and England striker be leaving Old Trafford. Anorak's round-up the news in the media over the past 24 hours... More »

3rd, July 2013 Fashion 1

Teacher Dale Irby wears same outfit to school for 40 years

Dale Irby is the gym teacher who found a look that worked and went with it... More »

3rd, July 2013 Reviews

Face of the day: Antonio Lopez Chaj

Face of the day: Antonio Lopez Chaj... More »

3rd, July 2013 Reviews

James Kingston's Cambridge parkour tour underlines how hopelessly inadequate we all are

There's no hiding from the fact that people who can do Parkour are really, really cool. It is dangerous, dynamic and makes us all look like wobbling, wheezing pedestrians in every single way... More »

3rd, July 2013 Money

Starbuck balls: they're becoming insane over this corporate tax dodging

Two stories that show quite how insane people are becoming over this corporate tax dodging stuff. Both, of course, from the Mail. The paper that can indeed read the zeitgeit but never quite get the details correct... More »

3rd, July 2013 Sports

Bournemouth v Real Madrid is the Chairman's gift Cherries fans pay £60 for

One of Anorak's favourite football chairmen, AFC Bournemouth's Eddie Mitchell, is understandably excited about his side's match with Real Madrid on the sunny south coast... More »

3rd, July 2013 Reviews 2

Banning EDL fans Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer also means the Boat Race streaker and honest Jews are refused entry to Britain

WHO gets into the UK? Pamela Geller (above) and Robert Spencer have been from entering Britain to speak at an EDL rally... More »