8th, July 2011
Key Posts
Rebekah Brooks revealed she isn't having a great time in her on-the-burning-bridge speech to News of The World staffers this afternoon at 4pm, where she explained the decision to close the paper and kill 160 jobs. More »
8th, July 2011
Film
Naturally, she's isn't some raging gay-basher, but rather, it is something she's said in character... More »
8th, July 2011
Celebrities
"I LOVE my privacy," says Alicia Silverstone in OK!... More »
8th, July 2011
Gifs
The kitteh stays in the picture... More »
8th, July 2011
Celebrities
The advice centres around this: Keep your friends close, but your waistband higher... More »
8th, July 2011
TV & Radio
I got a chance to watch David Walliams, the UK’s official gay-for-pay ambassador (after Russell Brand) hosting his new tabloid panel show, Wall Of Fame on SKY 1 HD... More »
8th, July 2011
Key Posts
"We already know the kind of cushy life that they have behind bars, with their satellite telly, computer games and a full programme of entertainment to make sure they're kept amused.Prison has long since stopped being a form of punishment for the people who have wrecked the lives of their innocent victims..." More »
8th, July 2011
Technology
The space shuttle Atlantis is on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is scheduled to take off for the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA... More »
8th, July 2011
Money
Andrew Marantz has worked at an Indian call centre. He's been to Delhi waiting for an Indian "culture trainer" to teach me how to act like an Australian to better empathise with the callers... More »
8th, July 2011
Money
So this is how we should solve those pesky government debt problems: the trillion $ coin... More »
8th, July 2011
Key Posts
To Australia, where a female rugby league fan can't stand to leave her seat at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane for even a moment... More »
8th, July 2011
Celebrities
Tom Ford: "I find it refreshing that everyone [who is] Chinese is slim"... More »
8th, July 2011
Reviews
Casey can then sell her story. There can be a film. A range of T-shirts. Hawkers were selling them outside the Orlando courthouse... More »
8th, July 2011
Key Posts
Rupert Murdoch is lauded for his dark genius in pressing the nuclear option and distracting us for a few seconds as we mouth silent shock-horrors and wonder what will happen to Carole Malone and her 'hell' tropes. This is not genius but guile... More »
8th, July 2011
Key Posts
Where she will be found wanting is the stupidity of allowing hard-pressed journalists, who is turn worked for her, to use outsiders to gather the information. That will be her Nemesis. Murdoch will order her dismissal because she was caught out... More »
8th, July 2011
Strange But True
On June 19, the man and a pal stole a dinghy to get them over the River Blyth. The dingy was undamaged and has been returned to the yard. But police say one of the men damaged a CCTV camera... More »
8th, July 2011
TV & Radio
Lay-deeeesssss 'n' gen-talll-meeeennnn... weighing in at £11/pound... presenting the PAXO Christmas weight champion of the worrrrrrrl... Turkey Lurkeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.... More »
8th, July 2011
TV & Radio
Why can't we call get along like otters and dogs..? More »
8th, July 2011
Royal Family
The Duke and Duchess sported white ten gallon hats, and cowboy shirts and boots. Williams then tossed a small stove into the back of a chuck wagon...
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8th, July 2011
Photojournalism
Parents aren't all like Rupert Murdoch, who lets his boy James sack lots of News of The World journalists to save Rebekah Brooks' job. Some parents are stupid... More »
8th, July 2011
Reviews
Ladies and gentlemen, you have been watching the death of the News of The World. Now it's going, you'll miss it. Here's what the others are saying... More »
7th, July 2011
Film
The Irony Lady will tell the story of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power in the manner of The King's Speech. This one's called The Iron Lady's Ankles... More »
7th, July 2011
Key Posts
The churnalists are up in arms. The carefully constructed media narrative has it that the News of the World, and by extension the entire Rupert Murdoch empire, has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of journalism... More »
7th, July 2011
Politicians
Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn a victim of tabloid journalism? Can he get a fair trial after headlines like these? More »