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3rd, October 2011 Key Posts 2

How The Islamophobic Daily Mail Spun A Lie About The BBC Banning BC And AD

Have you been following the Daily Mail's news that the BBC has banned the use of BC and AD on dates? Did you know that the BBC has changed BC and AD to the more "politically correct" CE and BCE?... More »

3rd, October 2011 Money

Richard Desmond's Health Lottery Drives Prudes Up Walls And Undermines His Editors

Richard Desmond's Health Lottery is on the cover of Richard Desmond's Daily Star and Daily Express. In both places the wonder is illustrated by a photo of a smiling Simon Cowell... More »

3rd, October 2011 TV & Radio 3

More Video Emerge Of Mike Tindall's Night Out

More great nights out with Mike 'wild boar' Tindall... More »

3rd, October 2011 Key Posts 1

X Factor Victim Day: Luke Lukas Is Not Robbie Williams' Son But Nu Vibe Might Be

News is that Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are not cynical middle-aged stars using the X Factor to further their own careers as they snigger up their sleeves at hapless pop pretenders in a money-driven contest.... More »

2nd, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Occupy Wall Street In Photos: Police Kettle Protesters And Newlyweds On Brooklyn Bridge

Occupy Wall Street In Photos: the revolution against corporate greed and other things will be televise, tweeted and posted on Macs... More »

2nd, October 2011 Flashback

On This Day In Photos: Gutsy Neil Kinnock Becomes Labour Party Leader

On this Day in History: October 2, 1991 - Neil Kinnock becomes Leader of the Labour Party. At the Labour party conference in Brighton, the "dream ticket" of Kinnock and Roy Hattersley take the plaudits... More »

2nd, October 2011 Film

Harrison: Living in the Material World - Scorcese's Focus On The Quiet Beatle Is A Joy

Was George Harrison the best of The Beatles? Was he a better singer than Paul McCartney and better songwriter,than John Lennon? Could he play the drums better than Ringo Starr. Ok, the last one's a given - but... More »

2nd, October 2011 TV & Radio 2

Gary Neville Pundit Masterclass: Spurs Van Der Vaart Is A Cheat

Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal quote of the Day - presented by Sky Sports' Gary Neville on the oscasion of Van der Vaart's goal... More »

2nd, October 2011 Reviews 1

Occupy Wall Street: Fighting Greed And Global Warming With An Apple MacBook But Not Radiohead

Occupy Wall Street is a movement stopping movement on the Brooklyn Bridge and other streets in New York City. It does not feature Radiohead.. More »

2nd, October 2011 Money

Women Who Take Their Husband's Name Earn Less

Even after controlling for education levels and work hours, a woman who took her husband’s name earns less -- €960 compared to €1156... More »

2nd, October 2011 Strange But True

Six Swedish Drag Queens Sought For Lincoln Pub Fight

1Are you one of the six men dressed as Swedish women * who fought at the Jailhouse Rock pub in Silver Street, Lincoln? In the course of the fight, one of the drag queens had a chair smashed over her his head... More »

2nd, October 2011 Strange But True

Alex Karpenko's Shaving Spade Enters The Bathroom Arms Race

Meet Alex Karpenko. The 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with a sharpened metal shape... More »

2nd, October 2011 TV & Radio

Why Goldie Cheung Left The X Factor: A Village Reacts

We hear form a "neighbour who lives close to Goldie, her husband David Webb, 52, and two sons aged eight and ten in Lathom, West Lancashire". Can it be that Goldie is banned from talking to the media? And get a load of the language uses by his neighbour... More »

1st, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Thieves Stab Hedgehog To Burgle Animal Rescue Centre

In Melnik, Czech Republic, crooks stabbed a hedgehog. They then called the Melnik Animal Rights Association refuge and reported seeing a stabbed hedgehog... More »

1st, October 2011 Strange But True 1

Hughes Brothers Lift The Criccieth Feat Stone

To Criccieth, Gwynedd town, where brothers Reuben and Dafydd Hughes, are passing the hottest day of the year lifting a massive stone weighting between 25-28 stones... More »

1st, October 2011 TV & Radio

Take It Easy On That Goop It'll Give You And Gwyneth Paltrow Nightmares

I think we can take this advice to heart... More »

1st, October 2011 Money 1

Guardian Reveals What It Will Costs You To Poach George Monbiot

Want to know what George Monbiot earns? The Guardian oput the news on its front page. He published a "registry of interests". Tim tells us that Monbiot earns £75,000 a year gross or thereabouts. More »

1st, October 2011 Reviews 1

Can The October Heatwave Be Linked to Climate Change?

The temperature of 29.9c (85.82f) in Gravesend, Kent was the hottest October day recorded since its records began in 1910, beating the previous record of 29.4C (84.9F) recorded on 1 October 1985, in March, Cambridgeshire... More »

1st, October 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Swiss Beauty Pageant Fail Is Over The Moon

PHOTOS of the Day: presented by the Swiss Beauty pageant fail (light the fuse and step well back).... More »

1st, October 2011 Reviews

Edward Steel's Cumbria Holme House Farm Is No Dale Farm: It's Not Ethnic Enough And It's Too Far From London

The 15 homes made from recycled static caravans on Edward Steel's Holme House Farm near Kendal in Cumbria have to be demolished. They do not have planning permission. Mr Steele tried to get it retrospectively, but was denied. Nineteen people still live in the homes. But they have to go... More »

1st, October 2011 Politicians

Michelle Obama Is A Normal Person Who Shops At Target: Photos

What odds that when Michelle Obama went along to a supermarket to stock up on vaseline, chips and dental floss an Associated Press photographer should just happen to be there to capture her ordinariness in high resolution images?... More »

1st, October 2011 Key Posts

Tom Ford Pulls Fragrance Strips From A Woman's Bum: And Other Sexy Sexist Adverts

What does Tom Ford's new scent smell of? Well, the advert in Russian GQ suggests it smells of rose petals and bum crack.,... More »

1st, October 2011 Key Posts 3

Andrew Bolt Prejudices: When Political Correctness Becomes Oppression In Racist Australia

Anyone who visits Australia can not fail to be shocked and even mortified at the outright bigotry and vile racism which many (many, not all) Australians repeatedly show in private when talking of "blacks, Abos, drunken boongs... More »

1st, October 2011 Reviews

China Launches Tiangong 1 Space Lab To Strains Of America The Beautiful

To mark the launch [of the Tiangong-1 space lab], the Chinese space agency and China Central Television (CCTV) released a proud animation, set to rousing orchestral strains, of the "Heavenly Palace"... More »

1st, October 2011 TV & Radio

Boy Hangs On For Dear Life: Video

Don't worry - if the little lad falls off the bike, the car filming the ride will be on the scene - and on him - swiftly... More »