I notice Nike is encouraging people to “sponsor” one of the 22,850 steps they have worked out Paula Radcliffe will need to complete in order to finish the Olympic marathon, promoted via a text message-backed campaign in halfwit’s comic the Sun this week. The reason I notice this is because my dad has put [...]

Now I wasn’t there and so I probably have no right to comment on the subject. But isn’t the purpose of a blog to prattle amateurishly about subjects one has no right to prattle amateurishly about? Well, exactly.
To this end, I feel I must take issue with renowned man of letters Gordon Smart and his [...]

If Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Wankbiscuit Johnson wins today, would the last person to leave London please turn out the light? (To paraphrase the Sun.) Obviously, it would help with the carbon footprint. Not that Boris knows what one of those is.
How come only Londoners get to vote, anyway? It’s my London too! I’ve been [...]

Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone talking about Shannon Matthews, on the One Show tonight:
The media reflects the public mood, and the public just haven’t taken to Shannon’s family as they did to Kate and Gerry McCann.
Yes, it’s the fault of the public - the scum who read newspapers rather than the nice people who write [...]

The Sun reports today that “Junkie Pete Doherty has been banned from a PRISON gig - because he is a bad influence”.
It’s an “EXCLUSIVE by Danielle Lawler”. Or, at least, it’s an EXCLUSIVE in the sense that the same story was in the Independent’s arts section last week. It was also here, and here and [...]

Is it fair to say that coverage of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the South East has been overblown as a result of the so-called “silly season”? According to Peter Wilby in the Guardian yesterday, the excitable tone of coverage, especially in the Daily Mail - which, a fortnight ago described a [...]

In which the Sun offers Pete Doherty some of the most ill-considered financial advice of all time in an effort to “rescue” him from financial ruin.
Sticks and stones won’t break his bones, but smoking could kill him. It doesn’t help his cashflow and Pete could save nearly £2,000 instantly by kicking the habit.
Removal men [...]