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28th, November 2011 TV & Radio 14

Gigantically Ungrateful Janet Devlin Slams X Factor As 'Karaoke': Amelia Lily

Imagine further, if you will, you're Janet Devlin who ticks all the above boxes. You'd be grateful wouldn't you? Not so. In fact, you'd chide the show for being little more than a karaoke show... More »

28th, November 2011 Politicians

Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback Demands Emma Sullivan Writes Lines As Punishment

When schoolgirl Emma Sullivan placed the hashtag #blowsalot on Twitter by the name of Republican governor of Kansas Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback, the politician's team tracked her down... More »

28th, November 2011 Key Posts 12

My Tram Experience: One Mum's Racism On London Transport

In a video called My Tram Experience, a British woman on London transport dandles her toddler on her knee and complains that Britain is full of non-British. The language is NSFW... More »

28th, November 2011 Money 1

If An NGO Goes Bust Without Government Money Is It Really An N- GO? Environmental Protection UK It Not Independent

The definition of NGO is Non-Governmental Organisation. Supposedly those nice people outside politics with ideas about how to make the world a better place who campaign to make the world a better place... More »

28th, November 2011 Reviews

Leveson Inquiry: Charlotte Church's 15-Year-Old Breasts And Chris Jefferies Hair

At the Leveson Inquiry into media standards, Charlotte Church and Chris Jefferies have been giv ing evidence. Jefferies was given the Full Murat over the murder of Joanna Yeates... More »

28th, November 2011 The Consumer

Passion For Fashion Auction Photos: Bid For Amy Winehouse's Dress And Hepburn's Oscar Gown

At the Passion for Fashion Auction, you can bid for the dress Audrey Hepburn wore to collect her Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday Oscar in 1954. It's expected to go for £60,000... More »

28th, November 2011 Sports

Blackburn Rovers: Steve Kean's Numbers Don't Add Up

Rovers manager Steve Kean, the man who signed a long contract to manage the club and then didn't, reacts to his side's defeat to Stoke... More »

28th, November 2011 Key Posts 1

Kate Middleton To Join Public Sector Strike: Official Royal TUC Strike Fridge Magnets Raise Millions

Public sector strikes are coming on Wednesday. And the big question is: will anyone who works notice? The right-wring press warn of queues at Heathrow Airport, pupils learning nothing in school and the country's borders being porous. Again we ask: will anyone notice the difference?... More »

28th, November 2011 Celebrities

Miley Cyrus Smokes 'Too Much F***in' Weed Over Her Bob Marley Space Cake

Cyrus will now make older readers feel very old indeed... More »

28th, November 2011 Reviews

When Poets Buy Guns, Tourist Season Is Over

The Middle East and Europe explained... More »

28th, November 2011 In Pictures

Ken Russell: A Life In Photos

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28th, November 2011 Reviews

Daily Mail Apologises For Blaming Cancer On Immigrants And Attractive Women

The Daily Mail has apologised for saying that immigrants give you cancer and slamming attractive young women for being slappers and older women for being old ... More »

28th, November 2011 Reviews

Policeman Arrests Ill Five-Year-Old Michael Davis At School And Takes Him Handcuffed To A Psychiatric Hospital

To California, in The Land of the Free, where five-year-old Michael Davis has been handcuffed by police and charged with battery. His crime is to have allegedly kicked a police officer in the knee during a meeting at his primary school... More »

28th, November 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: Jack Nicholson's Deformed Persons

Photos to brighten your day... More »

28th, November 2011 Reviews

Santa Bans Fat Children From Sitting On His Knees

Your child is not allowed to sit on Father Christmas' knee. The Criminal Records Bureau has decreed... More »

28th, November 2011 Strange But True

Mug Shot Of The Day: Woman Uses Toy Penguin To Rob Petrol Station

Mug Shot of The Day: Andri Lynn Jeffers, 26, attempted to rob a Chevron petrol station whilst armed with a toy penguin... More »

28th, November 2011 Music

The Nigerian Scam Artists Release A Greatest Hits Album - For Charity

Those Nigerian scam artist and their 419 caper have relesaed an album of their greatest hits. And it's all for charity!... More »

28th, November 2011 Key Posts 17

Tabloids And Twitter Wallow In The Death Of Gary Speed: It's Not All About Football

How do you report on the apparent suicide of Wales manager Gary Speed, dead at 42? His wife found him hanged at their home in Huntingdon Hall, near Chester. The Mail opts for the investigation into a private life... More »

27th, November 2011 The Consumer

Black Friday Shoppers Stepped Over Dying Fallen Herd Member

The story goes that other shoppers at a West Virginia branch of Target failed to help Mr Vance. Doubtless they thought it a ruse cooked up by Mr Vance and a gang to delay the competitors' gallop to the games consoles... More »

27th, November 2011 TV & Radio

British Academy Children's Awards 2011: Photos

On a school night, it was prize giving... More »

27th, November 2011 In Pictures

Gary Speed: A Career In Photos

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27th, November 2011 Reviews

Guido Fawkes Summoned To Leveson Enquiry To Explain Alistair Campbell's Leaked Evidence

Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes,has scored himself an appearance at the Leveson Inquiry for publishing a "leak" of former Number 10 spin chief Alastair's Campbell's evidence to the inquiry on his order-order.com website... More »

27th, November 2011 Key Posts

Photos Of The Day: Adele's Wa*k In The Park

Photos of the Day are brought to you by Adele, a Wa*k in the park, Eleganza clothing and Mick Jagger mooning a nose picking Keith Richards... More »

27th, November 2011 TV & Radio

Julie Chang Is Upset By A Lurker: TV Gold

Julie Chang, of MyFoxNY, loses her cool in a local news story. She tells the lurker - a adolescent boy waving behind her - to stop it. Chang has toiled for years to be on the TeeVee and will not allow some upstart to muscle in... More »

27th, November 2011 Reviews 1

Leveson Inquiry: The Sun Delights In Marina Hyde's Clanger While Biased BBC Ignores It

The WAR being waged right now is between the Guardian (the paper every internet journalist wants to write for but which loses £500,000 a day) and the Sun, which can be a fantastic read, makes money and employs the country's best subs and TV reporter Ally Ross, a writer worth the cover price alone... More »