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6th, September 2012 The Consumer

Paralympics ad agency mocks people on benefits

IRIS, the advertising agency the brought the world 2012 Olympic and Paralympics mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, have published their internal staff benefits booklet... More »

6th, September 2012 Celebrities 4

Naomi Wolf gets slaughtered on Mumsnet (best and worst comments)

Wolf has been chatting about her new book Vagina - A New Biography to the women on Mumsnet. Wolf says things like... More »

6th, September 2012 Fashion

Austerity denim by Adele Fado

For all your hipsters with short arms and deep pockets... More »

6th, September 2012 Key Posts 4

Richmond Magazine editor Richard Nye says 'the only good cyclist is a dead one'

Editor wants Bradley Wiggins dead... More »

6th, September 2012 Celebrities 1

Amy Childs sells diamante vaginas and chafe-proof underwear in Brentwood (photos)

Once Amy Childs was famous for appearing on The Only Way Is Essex on ITV2 and having a hobby that involved sticking shiny beads onto her vagina (aka The Sugar Hut nightclub)... More »

6th, September 2012 Technology

Billionaires can live forever with the 2045 project

Itskjov has written to the 1,266 riches people on the planet (according to Forbes). He will disembody their conscious minds and upload them to a hologram -an avatar.... More »

6th, September 2012 Flashback

1948: the Hard Skin Club convenes in Japan

FLASHBACK to August 29, 1948... More »

6th, September 2012 Politicians

Vladimir Putin flies with cranes

Putin will fly at the head of a flock of previously captive cranes. The Flight of Hope will feature Putin clad in a white robe, helmet and optional beak at the birds' head... More »

6th, September 2012 Key Posts

Coroner implicates Call of Duty in Teenager's suicide

The inquest into the death of Callum Jordan Green, 14, is a bit odd. The teenager from Stockport took his own life... More »

6th, September 2012 In Pictures

Bansky graffiti in gifs

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6th, September 2012 Celebrities

Who stole Simon Cowell's head No. 34b?

MISSING: Simon Cowell's head. Have you got it?... More »

6th, September 2012 In Pictures

Cartoon logic - it's like they make it up

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6th, September 2012 Reviews 1

Crete rounds up Mandolin players

Musicians play mandolins in a bid to be the world's largest mandolin ensemble in the city of Iraklio on the Greek island of Crete... More »

5th, September 2012 Fashion

How to Magazine Modeling, with Parick Sulentine and Parch

How to be a magazine model... More »

5th, September 2012 Flashback

Naked Royals: Czar Nicholas II and Courtiers bathe in the nude at Tsarskoye Selo

Prince Harry wasn't the first Royal to go naked.... More »

5th, September 2012 Celebrities

So, Michael Jackson was a hopeless drunk was he?

Everyone pretty much thought of Michael Jackson as a troubled child trapped inside a troubled genius' body... More »

5th, September 2012 Sports

When Alastair Campbell interviewed Lance Armstong David Walsh was missing

As the Times titles go after Lance Armstrong, and writer David Walsh is listened to anew, the paper might reflect on the decision to let spin doctor Alastair Campbell interview the cyclist in 2004... More »

5th, September 2012 Reviews

Juxtaposed headline of the day: The Killers and a 'Clubland Murder' in Liverpool

The Liverpool Echo reports... More »

5th, September 2012 Reviews 2

The Times uses interns to write in as the paper's readers

What do readers think of The Times? You can find out in the paper's You The Editor section, which "invites readers to pass judgement on the previous day's newspaper"... More »

5th, September 2012 Celebrities

Chantelle Houghton is dying to talk to her Dolly

"I always say to her: 'We're best mates, Dolly!' And she gives me the nod." And then she falls faces first into her mushed up banana... More »

5th, September 2012 Flashback

1953: The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips

FLASHBACK to 27/2/1953 - The wife of an Ainu chief displays tattoo around her lips in Hokkaido.... More »

5th, September 2012 Celebrities

Nicki Minaj is voting for Mitt Romney, which he'll be pleased about

To paraphrase, the Republican Party aren't racist, but they are number one with racists... More »

5th, September 2012 Politicians 1

Mitt Romney likes to sing about boys: Phil Lynott's Thin Lizzy and the Barry O'bama question

Thin Lizzy is providing Mitt Romney with some walk on music... More »

5th, September 2012 Money 1

The stupidity, it hurts - the mainstream media gets it wrong on food speculation

I find it to be actually physically painful when I see some ghastly lefty nonsense being picked up as the obvious truth across the political divide.... More »

5th, September 2012 In Pictures

People on the edge

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