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6th, December 2011 Key Posts 1

Madeleine McCann: The Sun Uses Our Maddie To Look Good

The Sun's front-page headlines screams: "New move over kidnap - MADDIE COPS JET TO BARCELONA"... More »

5th, December 2011 Reviews 2

Zac Goldsmith Compares The News Of The World To Auschwitz

It would hard to beat "privacy is for paedos" at the Leveson Inquiry, but Zac Goldsmith ( wot no superinjunction?) wants to share his views on phone-hacking... More »

5th, December 2011 Key Posts 1

Campaigns To Get Cultural Institutions To Say No To Big Oil Money Tarnishes The Arts

A top TATE galleries official has sided with critics of the organisation's sponsorship deal with BP, saying "When activists protest at, for example, events like the Tate summer party, that is a thoroughly good thing. It allows me to say: BP is a disgrace."... More »

5th, December 2011 Madeleine McCann 5

Madeleine McCann: Scotland Yard Detectives Hit Spain

Officers form Scotland Yard are in Spain... More »

5th, December 2011 Reviews

News In Photos: December 5 2011

The news in snap shots... More »

5th, December 2011 Flashback

On This Day In Photos: December 5 1952 - Smog Kills Thousands In London

December 5 1952: A cold fog hit London. It trapped the air pollution. A Ministry of Health report estimated that 4,075 more people had died than would have been expected to under normal conditions. Other estimates say the pea souper killed 12,000 people.... More »

5th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

Mark Wright's Night Of Tabloid Sex With Emily Scott (Photos)

One problem with McFly bassist Dougie Poynter winning I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! is that he's not Mark Wright, star of The Only Way Is Essex and an OK!'s abort 'n' tell. The Sun presses on regardless... More »

5th, December 2011 Key Posts

Reading The Riots: A Vain And Futile Exercise For The LSE and Guardian's Elite Social Therapists

The LSE and Guardian aim to be the authority on all things riots. It's pathetic and desperate.... More »

5th, December 2011 TV & Radio

Cats Watching Ice-Skating In The Style Of Mystery Science Theater 3000

A reader sends us this video of cats watching ice-skating. Who knew they were such fans. It reminds us of the Mystery Science Theater 3000, featuring the silhouettes of a man and his robot sidekicks watching films of debatable quality on a space station... More »

5th, December 2011 Sports

Madonna To Play In Superbowl, Quite Possibly As A Wide Receiver

The gig has been rumoured for some time now and it's clear that the NFL and associated TV stations want to get someone properly famous with a decent back-catalogue on the show after last year's awful Black Eyed Peas debacle... More »

5th, December 2011 In Pictures

Mars: Incredible Photos of The Red Planet

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5th, December 2011 Money

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies: The Buma/Stemra Model For European Pirates

QUIS Custodiet Ipsos Custodies. Or to translate that into modern English, how do we make sure that the people we ask to make sure that bastards don't steal from us aren't bastards who steal from us?... More »

5th, December 2011 Sports

Football Dive Of The Month: Sunderland's Seb Larsson Penalty-Conning Swan Dive vs Wolves

Good news: Larsson duly missed the penalty he won by foul means and 25 seconds later Wolves scored... More »

5th, December 2011 Sports

Learn To Bat Like New Zealand Legend Chris Martin: The Video

Learn to bat like Chris Martin - star of 32 ducks for the New Zealand rugby team... More »

5th, December 2011 Sports 2

Euro 2012 Outrage: England Team Showers Invaded By Tubby Sun Journalist

"We're gutted - England training camp is a dump," announces the Sun's front page. England's training base for Euro 2012 at Poland's Hutnick stadium is not up to scratch. Maybe the Poles should import some English workers to show them how to do the plumbing?... More »

5th, December 2011 Key Posts 13

Mourn Porn And Orchestrated Grief At The Gravesend Raped Baby Show

In Gravesend, Kent, a baby has been raped. Well, so they say. The baby was beaten so badly that his heart stopped beating. Well, so they say. An infant is in a terrible way at King's College Hospital. But the facts are sketchy... More »

5th, December 2011 Key Posts

The Best Photos Of 2011: From Riots To Beyonce And A Royal Wedding

The best images from 2011... It was quite a year... More »

5th, December 2011 In Pictures

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Is A Meme (Photos)

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5th, December 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day: The Ice Toddler Cometh

Because you need a laugh... More »

5th, December 2011 Celebrities 3

Miley Cyrus Shows Off Her Art To The Adult World

“The press seems to think that I’m trying to make this big turn and become a bad girl, and really I’m trying to be more connected with the Earth..." More »

5th, December 2011 Reviews 3

Parents Should Thank Leatrice Eng For Killing Santa Claus

Leatrice Ann Eng, 58, has told her class full of 7 and 8-year-olds at George W. Miller Elementary School in Nanuet, New York, that Santa Claus does not exist... More »

5th, December 2011 Reviews 2

Greeks Sue Germany's Focus Magazine For Defamation: The Venus De Milo Finger

Deutschland Uber Hellas! But the Greek are fighting back... More »

4th, December 2011 The Consumer

Sanitary Towels Are The New Curves

"I'm not curvy and I have no hips, so I pin sanitary towels on the side of my knickers, then out my clothes on over the top. Instant curves..." More »

4th, December 2011 Music

Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball Photos 2011: Rihanna Does The Barbara Windsor Two-Step

The Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball starred do-wop bands One Direction (hair), JLS (torsoes), The Wanted (Irish) and Rihanna, bumping and grinding way under the hair Barbara Windsor wore in Carry On Camping… More »

4th, December 2011 Strange But True

Efit Of The Day: The Salisbury Mugger Has Hair Like Chewbacca's Arse

Efit of the day take us to the scen of an attempted robbery in Wilton. The Salisbury Journal carries an efit of the wanted man... More »