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August 2011 - Too many issues!

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Like buses, inspiration hasn't come by for a wee while for me, then bang, two come along at once. The Daily Fail Strikes Again As many of you know, I am an avid Daily Mail critic, often not being able to comprehend the levels of poor journalism they allow to slip into their particular brand of schadenfreude. This morning offered a cracker of an example:   Career on thin ice: Former Hollyoaks star Jeremy Edwards is seen working as a builder's labourer to earn extra money Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2028639/Former-Hollyoaks-star-Jeremy-Edwards-working-builders-labourer-earn-extra-money.html#ixzz1VlE54qUI Lifted straight from the Sunday Mirror the previous day, Mail staff decided that spiteful comment was better than proof, whilst reporting that former Holby City star Jeremy Edwards has become a labourer whilst his career has seemingly hit the doldrums. The proof? The guy was wheeling a barrow and emptying it into a skip outside a house in No...

Rantings of a silly Ber-cow

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I am aware, that when I started this blog that it would be covering things of a sci-fi nature. But after reading a certain story in tonight's Evening Standard , I had to speak out. Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker of our House of Commons is clearly bored. Not content with her husband presiding over Parliamentary sessions, she has taken to Twitter to air her views on absolutely everything. This week, failing retailers Carpetright, Thorntons and Jane Norman have come in for some spectacularly ill-timed and wincingly juvenile criticism, a la Bercow. Of Thorntons: 'yuck tasting rip-off' Of Carpetright 'over-rated' Of Jane Norman: only sold 'clothes for skinny minies (sic)' Not only can Bercow, an alumus of independent school Marlborough College, have trouble spelling (minies, anybody?), she also displays breathtaking insensitivity towards the thousands of staff who have lost their jobs as a result of store closures. Interesting to note that Habitat, also in adm...