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16th, December 2011 Royal Family

Duchess Camilla meets centaurs at London International Horse Show at Olympia

To the London International Horse Show at Olympia, where the fabulous Duchess of Cornwall was meeting centaurs... More »

16th, December 2011 Reviews 2

Occupy London: Jesse Jackson knows Jesus better than Rowan Williams does

The irrepressible Reverend Jesse Jackson showed his face at the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest at St Paul's Cathedral in London. In a fist fight, or indeed any kind of fight with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, the bankers would bet on Jackson... More »

16th, December 2011 Sports 3

Liverpool's Luis Suarez is innocent: 'negro' wasn't in the contract

Meanwhile, while the IRC charges by the hour, The Telegraph reports that Suárez admitted using the term "negro" to Evra once... More »

16th, December 2011 Key Posts

The Most Women Hating And Mocking Adverts Ever: Before PC

Sex sells. This much we know. Today, sexiness, nay, sexual availability, is used to sell anything and everything. But before political correctness arrived to make porn a feminist statement, and make it no longer socially acceptable to call a black man "Sooty", misogyny ruled... More »

16th, December 2011 The Consumer

London's new open platform double-decker buses upset Labour

The new double-decker buses - the ones with hop-on and off platform - are here. Thank f**k. Is there anyone out there who likes the one-man operated buses?... More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

Christian Bale gets roughed up in China

KAPOW! Batman met his match in China as government security goons decided to rough up Christian Bale while he was trying to visit a blind lawyer. That's right, a blind lawyer. Bale, star of the Dark Knight, said to unified Chinese officials in funny hats... More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities 2

Tariq Ali hammers the tin lid on Christopher Hitchens coffin: audio

Hitchens has died. The journalist's brother, Peter Hitchens, has written a moving eulogy in the Daily Mail. It's well worth a read... More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities

Courtney Love to be evicted but she'll shoot her weird mouth off first

Courtney Love picks on her own fans at shows, she lambasts the living members of Nirvana, she's fallen out with her own band, she's hated by her own daughter... it's little wonder that her landlord hates her as well... More »

16th, December 2011 In Pictures

Imogen Thomas 2012 Calendar Photos

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16th, December 2011 Sports

Olympics now worse than war in Afghanistan: official

Get us all committed to the London Olympics and then over the years reveal quite how much more it was all going to cost. Current numbers seem to be running at £12 billion or more... More »

16th, December 2011 Reviews

Still no proof Gravesend baby was raped

THE story of the baby "raped" in Gravesend has failed to stir the national news media since the Mirror reported on it. More »

16th, December 2011 Reviews

Error of the week: The Daily Mirror says you won the lottery

"On December 6 under the headline Xmas dinner Is On £1m Lotto Win Coach, we wrongly reported that Mr Paul Trainor (right) had won a £1million Lottery prize. In fact the prize was won by another person..." More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities

Tamara Ecclestone finds a new way to spunk her dad's money: the dog's lover

Ecclestone's thought of the day, and possibly the week. The rallying point for a revolution against greed contemplates her chihuahua Duke and tells Hello!... More »

16th, December 2011 In Pictures

Top 10 Toys Of The 1990s - Gak Attack

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16th, December 2011 Strange But True

Manchester United fan floods French villa in failed seduction

Anyone know the name of the 31-year-old British Manchester United fan who broke into a home in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Nice, and attempted the fill the roof-top pool with water only to fail and flood the property?... More »

16th, December 2011 Reviews

Escaped gibbon attacks boy at Malacca Zoo (Video)

Was it a good idea house a gibbon on a island at Kuala Lumpur's Malacca Zoo? No... More »

16th, December 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: It's WTF Friday

WTF? One of these people is making defecating into a spectator sport... More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities

Mark Wright is man of the year

In interview, Louise Gannon seems determined to get Mark come on out and admit he's gay... More »

16th, December 2011 Celebrities

Has Justin Lee Collins Been Harassing His Ex-Girlfriend?

Seen Sesame Street? Seen Barkley the Dog who hangs around with Big Bird? Ever seen it in the same room as Justin Lee Collins?.. More »

16th, December 2011 TV & Radio

A penguin fetches a newspaper

What's black and white and read all over? More »

16th, December 2011 In Pictures

2011: A Year In Brilliant Mug Shots

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15th, December 2011 Key Posts

The best Christmas present ideas ever

Christmas is coming fast. You need a gift. But what to get… What to get? Panic ye not More »

15th, December 2011 Politicians

Twitter and Facebook earn Julia Gillard massive pay rise

What you British politicos want to know is how she managed it - and what they need to do. Well, get in twitter. That stuff pays big... More »

15th, December 2011 Sports

Jerry Sandusky was teaching children how to shower says his lawyer Karl Rominger

Want to hear why Jerry Sandusky is innocent..? More »

15th, December 2011 Strange But True

Minnesota school gives students an incest practical

Minnesota school Rosemount High - now twinned with schools in Motherwell - has been encouraging mums and dads to get off their children... More »