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Note to terrorists. If you’re trying to make a political point, don’t waste time with bombs and guns and violence.
There’s a much more effective way to threaten the very fabric of the civilisation. Get your boobs out** and run around. Even better, hurl yourself at expensive trinkets held so dear by the hierarchy. The panic on the faces of those paid to look after them hints that it might be a surprisingly rich vein.
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Research conducted by model agency founder Ben Barry suggests that if fashion used models reflecting a more realistic, less idealistic view of women, more of them would be more inclined to purchase their clothing.
I was so pleased when I read this. As one of a new breed of feminists content to complain about the status quo but not actually do anything about it, I was hoping fashion designers would eventually realise we’re not all 6ft tall, size zero creatures who can subsist quite comfortably on a diet of lettuce and nicotine. Surely, when this news broke, fashionistas would immediately dump those ethereal, inadequacy-perpetuating creatures and start throwing ‘real’ women down those catwalks: the ‘just need to shed that last 7lbs and I’d be perfect’ women, who fight a daily battle with chocolate donuts, and will definitely to make it to the gym later today, pinkie swear.
Like Ben Barry’s research says, more people would buy the clothes. We could all eat more cake. The designers would make an even bigger fortune. Have a huge presence.
No losers there.
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It’s all got bit serious here lately.
Let’s lighten things up by looking at this photo of Rebekah Brooks as she frantically tries to remember the penalty for lying under oath.
Remember, folks. No matter how awful your day has been so far, you can be assured that your failure to persuade the photocopier to operate properly is not being watched by thousands of people who are willing you to slip up and bring an entire government to it’s knees.
It’s all about perspective, y’see.
Yulia Tymoshenko waves to supporters from her prison cell. Image via huffingtonpost.
Rumours that several nations are considering a boycott of EURO 2012 games to held in Ukraine have given rise to questions about the role of politics in sport once again. At the beginning of May it was reported that Austria would not be attending fixtures held in the country as they were “concerned … about the prison conditions of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.” Yesterday, the BBC confirmed that the venue set to host the final, the Olimpiysky stadium in Kiev, has received just 50 bookings for VIP seats.
Tymoshenko was jailed last year after a trial condemned for being politically motivated.
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Fortunately for you, Mo Ansar retweeted it and reminded me. You now get the opportunity to witness the spectacle for yourselves.
This kind of proactive behaviour is, of course, why Mo is invited to appear on TV debates about important matters and why I’m scoring smart points off typos.
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Tony Thompson got the giggles during his face-off with Wladimir Klitschko at the Stade De Suisse yesterday. Thompson is due to fight Klitschko in a mandatory bout at the stadium in July – a prospect that shouldn’t provoke uncontrollable laughter.
Maybe he heard that Frank Warren’s opportunism regarding David Haye’s post fight press conference scuffle with Dereck Chisora last May has paid off.
I certainly allowed my head to drop when I heard. Onto my desk. Repeatedly.
A woman reacts with shock as she advised that her green jacket will offer no protection from the long arm of the law. Image: via the Telegraph.
The RSPCA have been accused of pursuing a political agenda after pressing charges against four members of the Heythrop hunt – which in the past has enjoyed the patronage of David Cameron. Vanessa Lambert, Richard Sumner, Duncan Hume and Julian Barnfield are all accused of hunting with dogs in contravention of the 2004 Hunting Act. Aside from Cameron, the hunt enjoys the support of such luminaries as Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson.
The Countryside Alliance, who, according to their website act in the interests of rural people, said:
The RSPCA’s decision to bring such a huge prosecution is a blatant political attack on hunting and an abuse of the court system.
To clarify (just in case any of you reading this are as stupid as the Countryside Alliance thinks you are), they believe it’s an abuse of the court system to prosecute a crime. Does that mean if everyone puts on red jackets and posh accents before committing a crime, they can then dismiss their prosecution as “bad law” and away with it?
Well, it’s no more illogical than the argument that killing animals is a fun way to spend a Saturday morning, I suppose.
Front page of thesun.co.uk, 02/05/12.
It’s looks as though the English press are coping really well with the embarrassment of being blindsided by the FA in the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England manager.
With this kind of support from ‘the nations’s favourite‘ newspaper, England cannot fail to perform at the European Championships.
Suddenly it all makes sense.
AA Gill. You’d be laughing too, if you got paid as much as he does for calling people names. Image: Chris Jackson/Getty Images.
The egalitarian internet. That most open of spaces where comment is not only free, it’s rapidly becoming a bigger talking point than the original prose it responds to.
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