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Wound Up The Usual Suspects

Sunday 8th February 2009

Other than that fact that they both have something of a speech impediment, I think that Jonathan Ross and Carol Thatcher seem to be quite different people. The circumstances surrounding their respective media controversies are also quite different. So it comes as no surprise to me that the response of their employers and the sanctions [...]

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Kinder Murder

Tuesday 18th November 2008

The Obscurer can today exclusively reveal yet another appalling case of a child who has been cruelly killed at the hands of their parents. Of the parents themselves, found guilty of manslaughter in court yesterday, there is little that need detain us, so in covering this story our focus will shift immediately to search for [...]

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The Last Noël

Friday 14th November 2008

We’re sunk. The liberal elite has won. According to Private Eye It’s official – Christmas is cancelled at the Daily and Sunday Express. Chairman Richard “Dirty” Desmond, worried about a verbal or physical backlash from the swathes of journos he is throwing out into the snow as the global recession bites, has announced there will [...]

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Bin And Gone

Thursday 18th September 2008

Well you’re due a short post after my recent extended blatherings, so here it is. And I guess I can’t really complain, viewing pay-TV for free via the internet, piggy-backing parasitically on someone else’s football feed. But still and all, it’s a bit annoying while watching a match to find a bit of editorialising suddenly [...]

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Lawn Sausage

Saturday 13th September 2008

Someone kindly left Tuesday’s copy of the Daily Express lying around at work, and I present the front-page story to you now as a kind of public service; for in these uncertain economic times, who knows? Should we find ourselves having been made redundant we may have to consider applying for all sorts of jobs [...]

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