Monthly Archives: July 2010

Goodbye for now

Tweet Well, it is approaching midnight and I’m getting married in the morning so this is just a quick goodbye as I’ll be on my honeymoon for the next two weeks. This is just a short post to say thanks for reading, commenting and linking to this blog; and also thanks to all those people [...]

‘Outrage’

Tweet A favourite tabloid word, and rarely used in its proper context – for example, when over 24,000 people complained to the PCC about Jan Moir’s Gately article the word was not used by the Mail or any of the tabloid press. However, if the BBC has 7 complaints out of an audience of over [...]

It is not a question of taste

Tweet This is the last time I will be writing a post on this subject so I hope it is definitive enough for some visitors to this site to understand. The visitors I am referring to – or people on Twitter or message boards or wherever – who shrug their shoulders and tell me that [...]

The Daily Star: Capable of blocking toilets

Tweet A dose of Youtube can sometimes be just as nauseating as browsing the Daily Mail website; and in many ways it is actually worse because Youtube is the place where all the tabloid reading dullards pick up a video camera and film themselves regurgitating their confused interpretation of the world around them. They are [...]

News of the World pays damages to Brad and Jolie

Tweet The BBC have reported that: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted an undisclosed sum in settlement of their privacy claim against the News of the World. The stars sued the newspaper in January over a story saying they would separate and had agreed custody arrangements. Appearing in London’s High Court, the couple’s lawyer [...]

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