Hacking

July 19, 2011 at 8:11 am

With every newsreader and lazy journalist in the world apparently ignorant of what the word ‘hacking’ actually means, it’s about time that some of the real gurus in the field made themselves available. LulzSec have taken down a raft of News International sites, including The Times, the Sunday Times, the […]

Watch Your Language

July 15, 2011 at 6:56 pm

The thing with being mugged by genuine muggers is they only get away with your wallet, and don’t make you say sorry. In Canada we have someone hitting the Compensation button because a stewardess didn’t speak Frog. What’s the only difference between Sprite and 7Up anyway…apart from the fact that […]

‘Ang On!

July 13, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Oh now ‘ang on, I’m not ‘avin that Following Andy Hayman’s extraordinary outburst yesterday (YouTube) in front of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee when asked if he took bribes, a photographer at The Times has grabbed one of those perfectly juxtaposed snaps. Worth re-posting as it will be […]

Mother Doesn’t Know Best

July 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm

The Express has only three headlines on continuous daily revolution: Diana, Immigration and BureaucracyGoneMad. If they had a sister paper in Colorado it would need a pull-out colour supplement to fully take the piss out of the recently released Colorado Department of Human Services Proposed Child Care Center Rules. It […]

Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

July 12, 2011 at 11:27 am

In a poll released today by polling organisation Angus Reid (who, to be fair, made a complete hash of the General Election percentages so maybe we shouldn’t pay too much attention) it seems that half of Britons would vote for freedom and an escape from the EU. The level of […]

July 12, 2011 at 8:02 am

Question Time LiveBlog 7th July 2011

July 7, 2011 at 7:48 pm

Question Time comes tonight from Basingstoke, which is twinned with Isengard in Mordor. Locally known as Gaysinblokes it is a marginally stylish buffer between the twin dumps of Southampton and Reading. It only features a swimming pool, two instantly forgettable colleges and a massive nightclub called Liquid which is populated […]

The Word “Inmate” Is Hurtful

July 7, 2011 at 5:33 am

In a rather entertaining lawsuit just filed in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), a woman is demanding that the State stop using the word “inmate“…because it is offensive to inmates the unenthusiastically liberty-inhibited. The court action has been started on behalf of her brother and claims that he has suffered […]

More Eco-Stupid Products

July 5, 2011 at 7:14 pm

Glasses made out of human hair. Who thinks up this nonsense? Is cos it will save the polar bears, innit… Two Royal College of Art graduates have discovered a way to turn human tresses into sustainable eyewear. Not all of us are blessed with 20/20 vision, which means that petroleum-based […]

The Politics Of Spinning A Crime

July 5, 2011 at 1:18 pm

The ever-breathless Nick Robinson is leading the joint Labour – Al Beeb charge to pin as much blame as possible on David Cameron for fact that a private investigator working for a newspaper listened to (and deleted) some voicemails of a murdered child eight years ago. TheEye has been keen […]