Hmmm, right, another one of these cases. Well, let’s hear from the student and the police and… Wait. What’s this? Chris Ward said he was at Tattenham Corner station last week when he heard about the alleged arrest. A third party is reporting this? And where did ‘alleged’ come from? It certainly isn’t in the headline! “I was queuing at Tattenham Corner railway station this morning for a ticket.”A…
If you answered ‘This’, congrats! If, on the other hand, you read this headline in the ‘Evening Standard’, you could be forgiven for wondering if it was still the 1st April: Because it now seems that the new definition of ‘starvation’ is this: At least, according to Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and chief executive (and inveterate self-publicist) of charity Kids Company: “The number of children coming to us with hunger problems…
Dorian Lynskey (music writer for the Guardian) cheers on the rude, bite-the-hand-that-feeds ‘artiste’: Ten days ago a concert-goer at the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis made the mistake of shouting out a sarcastic request for the Knack’s 1979 hit My Sharona towards the end of a show by Georgia indie-rocker Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound project. For his sins he was rewarded with a dissonant, hour-long, “death trance” version during which…
Police are investigating the ‘malicious’ destruction of a pagan stone circle destroyed in what they fear was a religious hate attack. Shocking! Police believe the attackers could have used crow bars and pick axes, with speculation that the attack could have been religiously motivated. Awful! Lampeter PC Richard Marshall told a town councillors meeting last week the site had been ‘maliciously taken apart’ and is now unsafe to use.He said:…
Roz Kaveney gets into a right old strop: In lots of ways, it is the ideal human interest story. It is the story of heroism in the face of the unthinkable. Yet we did not get to hear about it until a week later, and it is worth asking why. Maybe it just took that long for the fuss over the killer and his possible accomplices to die down enough…
Well, the sentence has been handed down, according to the ‘Echo’, and as promised, here’s the result: A GP will spend two years behind bars for hitting and killing a pensioner in his sports car while his eyesight was “severely impaired”. Will he? You see, two years was his sentence, and the ‘Echo’ assumes – maybe, or maybe hopes its readers will assume – that that’s the amount of time…
Er, no. He may have had to shut down the News of the Screws (though as pointed out here that just means a lot of P45s to people who had absolutely nothing to do with the phone illegal-but-really-not-hacking scandal) in much the same way as Ratner’s infamous ‘crap’ gag made his own store’s name so toxic that they all had to close, Gerald Ratner himself had to go and the…
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