Maclaren buggies in the wars A finger of fudge may be just enough to give your kid the digit they’re missing after helping Mummy fold away their pushchair. Is it me or are the middle classes getting madder? The Telegraph asks if parents are overreacting because Maclaren buggies are amputating their children’s fingers. One of […]
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Holy ai caramba! First Gordon Brown and now China. My late communist Dad must be spinning at the news that UK Chinese ambassador Madam Fu Ying has declared herself a fan of The X Factor. Never mind China and human rights, what about Simon Cowell’s crimes against humanity? According to The Independent report: ‘She praised twins
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A comic writes … As Britain goes the same way as the Roman Empire, things fall apart and the cultural superstructure collapses into the economic base, the Big Question is, what happened to our sense of humour? Or as Ian Burrell asks today in his insightful piece in the Independent, Q: When is a joke not
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Which movie are we in? The final act of The Omen? Or maybe Goodfellas? After heroically stalling the advance of Tony Blair by rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, which would (among other horrors) create the role of President of the United States of Europe, the Irish were told to vote again until the required result was
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I hate capitalism, that great big behemoth squishing us all into a greasy smear while a global super-aristocracy floats off into some platinum-plated diamond-studded dimension of their own where hopefully they choke on their million-pound handbags (I kid you not — see pic below). So I welcome those rare victories when you think, yes, there
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That master incarnator of exotic uber-villainy, Christopher Lee (87) — Dracula, Scaramanga (The Man With The Golden Gun), Saruman (Lord Of The Rings), Hammer’s first Frankenstein’s monster, Lord Summerisle (The Wicker Man), Willy Wonka’s scary Dad and Dr Fu-Manchu (erk!) — gets his richly deserved gong at long, long last. No relation to Bruce, Stan, Ang,
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