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  • Eek! Evil EU ban our traditional way of light!

    Chris Applegate’s life work is without purpose. Why? Because the Daily Mail is unspoofable. What satirical mind could have come up with this pile of nonsense for instance? Revolt! Robbed of their right to buy traditional light bulbs, millions are clearing shelves of last supplies Millions of Britons are finally waking up to the fact…

  • Charlie Brooker says it for me.

    If I had had an opportunity over the weekend, I was planning to write an essay on my view of the whole Russell Brand / Jonathan Ross episode. Having read Charlie Brooker this morning however, I now realise I don’t need to: The sad, likely outcome of this pitiful gitstorm is an increase in BBC…

  • The Daily Mail: the paper for pervs

    I’m struggling to avoid writing about the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand affair, but it has to be said that the Daily Mail really do take the biscuit on this one. In it, Georgina Baillie calls for Brand and Ross to be sacked for leaving her grandfather ‘utterly horrified and disgusted’ after ringing him up…

  • Karma Police and the fashion failure of fascism

    Karma police, arrest this girl, her Hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill And we have crashed her party This is what you get, this is what you get This is what you get, when you mess with us Radiohead, Karma police For reasons that may (or may not) become clear, the Daily Mail made…

  • Is time travel the new porn?

    The Daily Mail’s Science Editor Michael Hanlon has a pop at the trend in physics towards ever more outlandish theories in the New Scientist this week: Fun yes, but is it harmless? Scientists, and people like me who stick up for science, are happy to pour scorn on astrologers, homeopaths, UFO-nutters, crop-circlers and indeed the…