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15th, November 2011 Film

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Premiere Photos: Los Angeles Red Carpet - (Kristen Stewart And Taylor Lautner Shake A Leg

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Premier Photos are brought to you by Kristen Stewart's leg, Taylor Lautner's teeth, Ashley Green's cleavage and Robert Pattinson's look of bemusement... More »

15th, November 2011 TV & Radio 1

Dalston Superstars Is A Parody?

Dalston Superstars is a parody. It has to be. It is... Isn't it? More »

15th, November 2011 Money 1

What's Really Wrong In The Eurozone: The ECB-Triggered Depression Looms

For a financial system to work you've just got to have someone who both can and will print money when it's needed. The eurozone was built so that the ECB was specifically banned from doing this... More »

15th, November 2011 Reviews 1

Leonardo DiCaprio's Occasional Use Of Aviation Fuel Takes Him To Remote Sydney By Private Jet

Leonardo DiCaprio has followed his occasional use of aviation fuel over the South African skies to fly from New York to Sydney on a private jet... More »

15th, November 2011 Music

Can's Tago Mago Is 40 This Week: Duncan Fallowell Enlarges

Lovers of krautrock awake! Spoon Records and Mute are bringing out a 40th anniversary edition of the classic, 'genre-defying' Can album Tago Mago this week... More »

15th, November 2011 Politicians

Herman Cain's Brain Freeze On Gaddafi In Libyastan

presidential candidate Herman Cain is talking to the Journal Sentinel editorial board on the matter of Barack Obama handling of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya. More »

15th, November 2011 Sports 3

Cynical Barcelona Begin The Long Job Of Tapping Up Spurs Gareth Bale

Already the club are tap-tap-tapping Bale up. Here's president Sandro Rosell... More »

15th, November 2011 Photojournalism

Photos of The Day: Sandusky's Ass Coach

To brighten your day... More »

15th, November 2011 TV & Radio

X Factor: Amelia Lily Wants To Be A Manufactured X Factor Star

The World according to Amelia Lily, the X Factor contestant who went and then returned... More »

15th, November 2011 Sports 2

Oldham Athletic, Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United And Hull City: This Is Ian Dowie

"Gary speed sees Gareth Bale week in, week out, every eight weeks"... More »

15th, November 2011 Sports

Football Figurine Of The Day: Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos Does A Poo

Catalonians hide the shitty widgets in their Nativity scenes and invite friends to find them. Kind of like ‘Where’s Wally?’, but with turds... More »

15th, November 2011 The Consumer

eBay Item Of The Day: Erotic Ass Print

Here's how to save the economy: the Erotic Ass Print. C'mon Cherie and Tony Blair - you owe us... More »

15th, November 2011 In Pictures

Awkward Wedding Photos (Volume 1)

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15th, November 2011 Celebrities

Pete Doherty's Christmas Carol Panto: WIth Cold Turkey And Amy Winehouse's Ghost

Having outlived Amy Winehouse, pop f**kwit Pete Doherty is seeing ghosts... More »

15th, November 2011 Key Posts

Peter Roebuck's Suicide Dive: Sun Buries Neil Manthorp's Flawed Genius With Nudge And Wink

Roebuck committed suicide. The Somerset cricketer who became a journalist "dived six floors to his death from a South African hotel room after he was questioned by police over an alleged sexual assault against a young man he met on Facebook".... More »

15th, November 2011 Money

Sign This Treaty or the Treaty Gets It: Merkel Makes Demands

We have two options here. The first is that Britain signs up to anything that everyone else wants. No regard to national interests, what we might want to get out of it, just sign here and we'll tell you what you've signed later... More »

15th, November 2011 Sports

John Terry Race Row: The Sun Turns Chelsea Captain Into Mad Dog Gaddafi

The Sun does it's best to make the Chelsea captain appear delusional - football's answer to Colonel Gaddafi just before his capture... More »

15th, November 2011 TV & Radio

I'm A Celebripty: Freddie Starr Turns Japanese On Coco Austin's Bootiful Camel Toe

Freddie Starr has been rushed to a nearby hospital. The hamster-muncher has suffered a severe allergic reaction something - most possibly to Lorraine Chase's vest and Mark Wright's smirk... More »

14th, November 2011 Politicians 1

Chelsea Clinton Works For NBC: Hillary's Pimped Out Daughter Turns Gamekeeper

This is how the elite work - the SADOS (Sons and daughters of stars) - get the easiest, most delicious jobs. They do not watch Dr Who and dream of meeting a star. They are already in the TARDIS... More »

14th, November 2011 Politicians

Christian Michele Bachmann Wants To Make The US Like Totalitarian China: Jesus Wept

"If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. They don't have the modern welfare state, and China's growing..." More »

14th, November 2011 Key Posts 1

Odd And Unsettling Erotic Images Of The Day

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14th, November 2011 The Consumer

Vintage Advert Of The Day: The Burlington Mid-Length Sock

Nothing...nothing...nothing can make the mid-length sock fall down... More »

14th, November 2011 Celebrities

Jessica Biel's Organic Striptease Defies Her Looks: Photos

Biel would like to explain that her striptease in Powder Blue was more than just a striptease. People can be so judgemental... More »

14th, November 2011 Key Posts 2

Suicidal Jerry Sandusky's Sympathetic Judge Leslie Dutchcot Worked For Accused Penn State Child Rapist's Children's Charity

Penn State child rapist Jerry Sandusky has been granted unsecured bail. It has been deemed that the man whose alleged sex crimes went unreported by Joe Paterno, his former superior at Penn State, is not a flight risk. Says who..? More »

14th, November 2011 Money

Does The SEC Let Warren Buffet Win In A Two-Tier Stock Market? We aRe The 99.99999999%

Buffet bought $10.7bn of IBM stock though his Berkshire Hathaway fund without making the markets notice. How? Well... More »