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18th, December 2012 Reviews

Irish Jesus lynched in Bethlehem

On the Israel Embassy, Ireland (Facebook) page, a message about Jesus and Mary in Bethlehem "being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians"... More »

18th, December 2012 Royal Family 1

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Jacintha Saldanha is buried with full media pomp

Day 16... More »

18th, December 2012 Celebrities

Kelly Osbourne on the sin of eating what you want

This is the Kelly who called Christina Aguilera a "fat bitch"... More »

18th, December 2012 The Consumer

Parents outraged by chocolate salty Big Baws cereal

Get a load of those loveable characters on the back of the Weetos cereal box. One is called Big Baws... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews 6

Charlie Brooker writes the worst article on the Sandy Hook massacre

"...the best way to improve media coverage of massacres is to prevent massacres"... More »

17th, December 2012 Politicians

That Global Warming Policy Foundation letter to the BBC: the 'notorious seminar' of 2006

“We refer to the now notorious seminar on global warming held in 2006, involving 28 senior BBC staff and 28 outsiders..." More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews 4

The Sandy Hook massacre: guns kill liberty

On guns and liberty... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews

The Sandy Hook massacre: The Mishnah and the reasons for evil

It is a natural tendency on the part of most human beings, when confronted with great evil, to want to do something about it... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews

Employer pays compensation to woman injured during sex on business trip

The Australian Federal Court says the woman who injured herself during sex on a business trip is entitled to compensation... More »

17th, December 2012 Celebrities 1

What killed Amy Winehouse? Death inquest to be reheard

The 'bogus' coroner... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews 5

Six year old girl survived Sandy Hook massacre by playing dead for God

Does the media corrupt the story?... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews

Chasing Ice baptises climate chance sceptics to the new religion

It's a new religion... More »

17th, December 2012 The Consumer

Balding Post-It Notes

Post-hair... More »

17th, December 2012 Money

How the Government has decided to throttle shale gas

A 0.5 earthquake is about the same power as the explosion of a hand grenade... More »

17th, December 2012 The Consumer 1

In photos: Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea

Hair styles reflect the wave of change... More »

17th, December 2012 Reviews 1

Electrocuted dog used wee to detect Liverpool cannabis factory

To Liverpool, where a dog taking a leak was electrocuted on a live metal shutter... More »

17th, December 2012 Strange But True

Woman abused Wang the dog to torment neighbour

To China, wehre Hu Lin has been ordered to pay £500 compensation to her neighbour Wang Sun... More »

17th, December 2012 Key Posts 1

The Sandy Hook massacre: Obama makes martyrs of the dead as media fetishises grief and fear

This fetishising of grief, the mourn porn, is not universal.... More »

17th, December 2012 Celebrities

Donna Zittelli in photos

They call her flipper... More »

16th, December 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Lord Kevin Bacon and Diana's hair

Day 15... More »

16th, December 2012 Reviews 4

Computer games made Adam Lanza do it - not guns, then

"In just minutes, Lanza — a withdrawn, emotionally detached 20-year-old who lived with his mother and is said to have played graphically violent computer video games.." More »

16th, December 2012 Reviews 1

Adam Lanza gets debated: who speaks for these, the victims?

Amidst all the talk, a terrible silence... More »

16th, December 2012 Reviews

Sandy Hook Elementary School: Rupert Murdoch's wants better gun control - his bodyguards agree

Bodyguards for everyone... More »

16th, December 2012 Reviews 12

Sandy Hook Elementary School: the gun lobby are child killers

"After the Aurora killings, I did a few debates with advocates for the child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby.." More »

16th, December 2012 Reviews 1

Sandy Hook Elementary School: blame global warming

The children were sacrificed... More »