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21st, March 2012 Books

Book of the Day: Glamour and the Hostess: A Guide to Canadian Table Settings

Book of the Day: Glamour and the Hostess: A Guide to Canadian Table Settings -by Marie Holmes, Director Chatelaine Institute ---in the Original GIFT BOX... More »

21st, March 2012 Reviews 5

The Sun protects its own: Virginia Wheeler and John Kay are no Gazza and Shirlena

Why did the Sun not report on Virginia Wheeler and John Kay (more on him here), the alleged subjects of the London Evening Standard's story of March 6?.. More »

21st, March 2012 Politicians

David Cameron fiddles with your ice-creams

So. What has Dave down to reduce regulation on ice-creams..? More »

21st, March 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - I gave myself to Jesus (but now he never calls)

Jesus never calls, the big sheep?, doggy poo, human bikes, and how Germany owns Greece... More »

21st, March 2012 Technology

How Google Plus works - and other visons of hell

Does anyone really know how it works? More »

21st, March 2012 Flashback

The 10 best Superman comic book covers ever - Superman being a dick

The ten best vintage comic book covers of Superman behaving like a dick... More »

21st, March 2012 Money

This Budget Day, let us remember, we must kill all the bureaucrats

Our tale for the day comes from New York City, but the same basic principle applies... More »

21st, March 2012 Reviews

Mohammed Merah in photos - a history of violence

Merah, 24, is suspected of having murdered four Jews, three of them children, as they arrived for class at the Ozar Hatorah secondary school in Toulouse.... More »

21st, March 2012 Key Posts 24

Did UN worker's anti-Israel tweet provoke Mohammed Merah to murder?

Did Mohammed Merah murder Jewish children because little over week earlier, on March 12, UN worker Khulood Badawi posted a photo of a cloodied child on @KhuloodBadawi? More »

21st, March 2012 Key Posts 1

Falkirk streaker Lewis Fraser trips over his pants (video)

Ross County scored. Fraser seized the moment. He vaulted the fence. He ran. And then he fell - his feet became entangled with his pants. .. More »

21st, March 2012 Strange But True

Fully aroused man in sheer tights seeks bikini wax

To Detroit, where a man dressed in a backwards baseball cap, a shirt inside out and backwards, slippers, and sheer pantyhose cut off at the ankles is looking for a bikini wax at salons in the region.. More »

21st, March 2012 Reviews

Win a mousetrap game, and see how the sneaky pests get in your home

Just exactly how smart are Britain's rodents? More »

21st, March 2012 The Consumer

The fish singer of Queens Market, Upton Park - video

Meanwhile at Queens Market, Upton Park, east London, fish is going very, very, very, very cheap-cheap... More »

21st, March 2012 Sports

England's Congo-born Fabrice Mumaba stuffs the Mail's 'Plastic Brits' story

The Daily Mail has been harping on about "plastic Brits", athletes and sportsmen who were not born in the UK but who represent the country... More »

21st, March 2012 Celebrities

Mickey is looking his age - photos of Disney's old rodent

Mickey made his screen debut in November 1928 in the cartoon Steamboat Willie. To operate a boat even then, Mickey must have been at least 12. By conservative estimates, Mickey would be 81 in human years. .. More »

21st, March 2012 Key Posts 1

Fabrice Muamba: Richard Littlejohn says Muamba is the infection that triggers an English disease

Anorak's look at the Bolton Wanderers' footballer in the news: Richard Littlejohn's spite in the Daily Mail and the Sun's cynicism in trying to own Muamba and his illness... More »

20th, March 2012 Reviews

Husband's sudoku sex with a sodomised iPhone

"Hapless Eric Ferguson was supposed to send a message to his missus Olivia saying: “Loving a bit of sudoku with Big Mark from work." But the iPhone had other ideas... More »

20th, March 2012 Sports

The Hans of Singapore's Liverpool-themed wedding - video

English football is the envy of the world. (More here.) So, then, to Mr & Mrs Han's wedding in Singapore.... More »

20th, March 2012 Key Posts 4

We are all Azhar Ahmed now - State control online will hurt us all

Ahmed, 19, was in the dock at Dewsbury magistrates' court today. Azhar Ahmed was there because he posted an odious badly written Facebook comment that allegedly breached the rules of the Communications Act 2003... More »

20th, March 2012 Photojournalism

March 20 2012 in photos - Azhar Ahmed to Peyton Manning

Today's news in photos... More »

20th, March 2012 Royal Family

Prince Harry's heart breaks alongside Fabrice Muamba

As Fabrice Muamba lies in a hospital bed recovering from cardiac arrest, the Daily Star leads with him and new that Prince's Harry's heart has been broken... More »

20th, March 2012 Reviews

The funeral of Pope Shenouda III in photos

The leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church sought to protect his flock from Muslim extremists, who have in recent years renews attacks the Christian Coptic community. He was 88. His funeral was spectacular... More »

20th, March 2012 Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth signs new five-year deal with Team UK

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 has rededicated herself to the service of Britain. Her decision to remain on the throne and take herself off the transfer list was down to the “resilience, ingenuity and tolerance” of the supporters... More »

20th, March 2012 Celebrities

George Michael reschedules tour now that Heather Trott is dying

One of the more peculiar elements of EastEnders is the subplot that Heather Trott really, really, really likes George Michael. She once hid in a garden and sniffed a yoghurt lid that she fished out of a bin. Yes, that's primetime British television there. More »

20th, March 2012 Celebrities 1

Ashton Kutcher is being sent into space, away from humanity

Space is the final frontier apparently. It is also destined to be the resting place of imbecilic goof factory, Ashton Kutcher who is probably going to end up dead and orbiting our Earth... More »