Let’s start with the good news. Alexa Ray Joel, the 23 year old daughter of Billy Joel, isn’t dead. She wanted to be. She attempted suicide by overdosing on homeopathic medicine, without realising that the pills didn’t actually do anything. Alexa Ray Joel, 23, was rushed to the hospital after […]

Found this fascinating map today of the USA in the Economist showing the GDP’s of each of the 50 states of the USA (or 57, if you are Obama) as compared to other countries around the world. It gives a very interesting perspective on how the US fits together as […]

It’s safe to say who will come out best here. The lawyer for Julian Assange is making noise about prosecuting Sarah Palin if she ever goes to Australia. In a Facebook post in December, Sarah Palin wrote that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be “pursued with the same urgency as […]

So if Guido (repeated by the Telegraph) is right, the wife and the bodyguard isn’t the main story but a useful distraction. They think Alan Johnson himself is guilty of wick dippage into out of bounds wax buckets. But, exclusively here, we can reveal that it was in fact a threesome and […]

Tonight Question Time comes from Burnley, best known for the fact the more Bénédictine is drunk in one bar there, the Burnley Miners’ Club, than anywhere else in the world. LibDem Gordon Birtwistle, elected in 2010, is the first non-Labour MP for the area since the Great War. On the […]

Forget cross-hairs on maps and blaming Sarah Palin for murdering nutters. In Russia, political debate is much more civilised. This speech, for example, is interrupted by …..a helicopter dildo….

Those completely demented Taiwanese amimators have been let loose on the Chinese leader’s state visit to Washington. It’s as off the wall as usual. Also, mocking Obama’s tendency to bow to foreign leaders The Donald poked fun at him on Fox News. Speaking as Hu was about to arrive on […]

Taiwanese man has sued his neighbours claiming that they trained their mynah bird to swear at him and that the bird’s relentless taunting caused him serious emotional distress and injuries. It seems that Wang Han-chin had previously complained to police that his neighbours were too loud, and he claimed that […]

From across the Pond, a CBS poll has found some disturbing results. Apparently 16% of the US public thinks it is sometimes justified “to take violent action against the government,”. A greater proportion of Republicans, 28%, subscribe to that point of view. But that’s not the worrying part. What’s really […]

As that the original version of the Dire Straits classic “Money for Nothing” has been banned in Canada for being politically incorrect, here’s an updated version of it for the modern era. Might as well burn YouTube’s bandwidth to embed this, but in case the video is pulled there’s a […]