Despite causing a potentially fatal split in the coalition government over his handling of the BSKYB bid, Jeremy Hunt remains a popular figure in his local community. Image: CARL COURT/AFP/GettyImages.
Quä Quäger: England Football’s Soundtrack To Success
The England national football team’s supporter’s band was refused entry to the their team’s opening fixture vs. France on Monday. It was presumed that an outcry from England supporters would immediately follow, leading to band becoming a cause celebre and having their status of ‘official’ reaffirmed by the FA, who would heroically force Ukranian football authorities to allow them back in for Friday’s tie vs. Sweden.
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Syria: Sorry, We Cannot Hear You, We’re Kind Of Busy
Explosions in Homs yesterday caught on camera. It has been described as one of the heaviest examples of violence in Syria since the uprising against the government began a year ago. Image: BAMBUSER/HOMSLIVE.
Dear Syria.
Thank you for contacting us. Your call is important, but right now the weight of our own indifference is preventing us from coming to your assistance, sending aid or indeed giving a shit that your children are being tortured and murdered by your government.
Please hold. One of our operators will be with you eventually.
Kisses,
The World.
Lingerie Football League: A Revolution In Spandex
I’m willing to wager that I’m not the first person whose been inspired to action by this picture. Image: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/GettyImages.
While we’ve all been concentrating on the well-intentioned (but ultimately pointless) battle to keep sport out of politics, the US based Lingerie Football League have been working their lacy knickers off on an entirely different project. And to be fair to them, their campaign to introduce porn into American Football has been so successful, it seems pointless to try and stem the inevitable tide of unexpected nudity.
There must be a way to turn this to our advantage.
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Mission To Lars: High Concept Hopes & Dreams
Kate Spicer is a journalist and broadcaster. Her brother Tom suffers from Fragile X syndrome – a form of learning disability – and as a consequence, Kate and her other brother Will felt that they lost touch with him as they grew up. Tom lives in a care home in Devon now, while Kate and Will are both pursuing careers in London.
In order to make up for those years where, as Kate puts it, “we’ve been rubbish with him” with him, they decided to help Tom fulfill his greatest wish – to meet Lars Ulrich of the metal band, Metallica.
What followed was a journey in which their best laid plans began to unravel before they’d even left the UK. Kate and Will filmed it all, and the result of their endeavour is out now.
It sounds like a cross between This Is Spinal Tap and Rain Man. I can’t wait.
FEMEN: Extinguishing Unfairness
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Now FEMEN are emulating UEFA by blowing a lot of hot air around a major football tournament.
If you can’t beat em, join em!
Charlie Brooker: The Final Piece Of The Puzzle
Sebastian Bergman and Torkel Hoglund approach a house, intent on the capture of a smug, subtitle-reading git. Image via moviemail-online.co.uk.
The sense of intellectual superiority available in subtitled entertainment is a wonderful thing. In fact, it’s so good that waiting to see whether a subtle yet contemptuous forehead crease or attack as a form of defence response follows the question “which version of ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ have you seen?” could arguably be broadened into an entertainment format of it’s own.
Seeing both doesn’t count. In order to be a proper intellectual, one eschews the remake as a needless exercise in pandering to the lowest common denominator. But, being a clever sort, you knew that.
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Mario Balotelli: The Finest Of Lines
Image: AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi.
They say there’s a fine line between genius and madness. Mario Balotelli’s off-pitch exploits imply that the Manchester City and Italy striker has one of those areas covered, but is his latest statement a hint of the other?
William Hague: Prayers, Interrupted.
Image: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.
He may appear calm and collected, but you know that at some point in the build up to this photo opportunity, it’s occurred to William Hague that there’s a chance he might be mistaken for Brad Pitt.
Judging by the expression on Angelina Jolie’s face, the same thing occurred to her right around the time the picture was snapped.
Samantha Brick: A New Appointment?
Jessica Ennis. Unfeasibly massive. Image: Ian Walton/Getty Images Europe.
A ‘high ranking person’ at UK Athletics has reportedly stated that heptathlete and Olympic poster girl Jessica Ennis is carrying “too much weight“.
We’ve seen this defiance in the face of logic and sense (not to mention reality bending myopia) before, people. The only conclusion one can draw is that Samantha Brick’s work as a feminist cheerleader has attracted the attention of UK Athletics and they have appointed her Olympic Fat Tsar.
They must have. No sensible person would say such a thing about a young woman who is, without doubt, one of the most positive role models this country has ever produced. That would be really, really dumb. And dangerous.
Georgia Davis – who had to be winched out of her house this week after becoming trapped in her bed – must be feeling super-inspired to crack on with her weight loss programme this morning.
Kelly Welles 