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20th, February 2012 Celebrities 3

Robert Pattinson quits Twilight franchise (Berlin photos)

TWEENS! Prepare to cry all the water out of your body. Why? Robert Pattinson - officially the dullest human on the face of this Earth - is not going to play Edward Cullen anymore in the Twilight films. Cut THAT into your arm with your Hello Kitty geometry set.... More »

20th, February 2012 Politicians 17

Andrew Lawnsley: Do you know what it's like to mop up my mother's piss?

Health Secretary Andrew Lawnsley being asked by a member of the public if he knows what it's like to mop up her mother's piss... More »

20th, February 2012 Reviews

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad breaks the UN - Germany carnival season photos

It's carnival season in Germany... More »

20th, February 2012 Reviews 1

Charlene Downes: parents want Lancashire police reprimanded

Anorak's look at Blackpool's missing teenagers in the news... More »

20th, February 2012 Celebrities 3

People want compensating for Whitney Houston's death

There's another group of people who feel particularly aggrieved by it all - those are the guests staying at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the day Whitney Houston died. They want compo... More »

20th, February 2012 Celebrities 3

Michelle Duggar's tips for women who want to keep their man: give him sex on demand

Duggar has created the tip sheet "Seven Basic Needs Of A Husband". In readiness for a new series of her TV show 19 Kids and Counting (after 20, she's pout of fingers and toes and counting genitals) , Duggar has tops on how you can be like her... More »

20th, February 2012 Flashback

A Brief history of dance on British TV - from Haka horrors to would-be Travoltas

Daren Gough was the top English bowler of his generation, but since retiring from professional cricket, Barnsley’s favourite Tory has hit even greater heights... More »

20th, February 2012 Technology 1

Eternal Copyright: Adrian Hon's argument is for his use only

On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law."... More »

20th, February 2012 Money 1

So what's going to happen to Chinese manufacturing? There's been a run on peasants

I know, I know, all those jobs we packed up in boxes and shipped off to China. The Ruin of the North, as bad as anything Willie the Conq did a millennia ago and all due to this neo-liberal globalisation shite.... More »

20th, February 2012 Key Posts 1

Party faces - because you looked good last night

Because you looked sooooo good at the club last night… More »

20th, February 2012 Key Posts 2

Mormons baptize Jews murdered in Holocaust

Did you know that Mormons baptize Jews murdered in the holocaust? The victims of Nazis genocide don't even get to own their souls. They get nothing... More »

20th, February 2012 Sports

Dereck Chisora and David Haye could work for Team Luis Lazarte - video

Chisora and David Haye have betrayed British boxing with their graceless hooliganism... More »

20th, February 2012 Sports 5

In search of an Olympics scandal - IOC kills NHS patients

There are 158 Days to go until the London Olympics. The race is on to find a story that will shame the IOC and expose the greed and corruption that lie at heart of the Games. So. The Observer presents... More »

20th, February 2012 The Consumer

Why the Sun on Sunday will trash the opposition

Anorak will be buying the Sun on Sunday? Why? Well, today's puff pieces for the paper is brilliant... More »

20th, February 2012 Key Posts

Basketball's big heads: a gallery of a sporting craze

Basketball is not sport that has gripped Anorak - until now. The fans are winning us over by holding aloft giant faces when the opposition goes to shoot.... More »

20th, February 2012 The Consumer

The Sun on Sunday - exclusive launch photos and video

The Sun is to publish on Sunday. The greatest secret in media since news that Katie Price sleeps on her back is out... More »

20th, February 2012 Strange But True

Mum keeps son trapped in world of Smurfs and aliens

The boy's mother has been reported for allegedly "holding her son prisoner for years in a fantasy world inhabited by Smurfs and space aliens". In Sweden... More »

20th, February 2012 TV & Radio

A slinky on a treadmill (video)

It's Monday. As you slink back to work, here's a slinky on a treadmill... More »

19th, February 2012 Reviews 60

James Bulger: Robert Thompson gets compensation for News of The World hacking his phone

Bulger is back in the news. Denise Fergus, mother of the toddler murdered by Jon Venables an Robert Thomson in 1993, is upset that Thompson may be due a pay out for, reportedly, having his phone hacked by the News of The World... More »

19th, February 2012 In Pictures

Whitney Houston - funeral photos

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19th, February 2012 In Pictures 1

Monica Lewinsky - rare photos that shocked the world

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19th, February 2012 Key Posts

Shadow sculptures made of rubbish are brilliant (photos)

Tim Noble and Sue Webster have gone to work and created these fine monuments to rubbish... More »

19th, February 2012 Reviews 8

Telegraph's hatchet job on Richard Dawkins: he is descended from slave owners

This is of course in a long tradition of hacks generating pseudo-news rather than actually reporting anything of interest.... More »

19th, February 2012 Sports

Jeremy Lin: Chink In The Armour headline gets ESPN writer sacked

The ESPN hack who created the headline "Chink In the Armor" in reference to New York Knicks basketball player Jermy Lin has been sacked... More »

19th, February 2012 Reviews

Forest Boy Is Raymond: English speaking boy who lived in German woods awaits Tom Cruise

Who is ‘Forest Boy’, the English speaking youth found living in a German forest? Well, you're going to have to wait a while. A spokesman for Germany's youth protectorate says... More »