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Interesting that the website of that noble and upstanding journal, that backbone of Britain that is the Daily Mail, today has stories on Jade Goody not wanting to die, Katie Holmes getting thinner whilst the waistlines of ‘celebrity slimmers’ apparently ‘yoyo’ and boys as young as TEN (sic) are caught roasting live puppies over an open fire.

So what else is happening in the World? Well Gordon Brown accidentally mentioned the word ‘depression’!,  Kelly Brook was caught in trainers with no make up! and Amanda Holden braved the chill with plunging neckline ‘plunging faster than the icy temperatures’. So far, no surprises there. What IS surprising perhaps, is that there is no mention at all of a chap called Trevor Hemmings.

Trevor Hemmings is a businessman – owns Blackpool Tower and one of his horses won the 2005 Grand National. He is also big in slot machines. Turns out that 4 companies owned by him, donated between them the princely sum of £200,000 to the Conservative Party last year. The strange thing is, it was just after they had called for softer rules on arcade gambling. Hmmm, now there’s a coincidence. Seems to me there is definite whiff of fish in the air on reading that, but obviously not to the Daily Mail. Wonder why?

Perhaps there was no room left after they had written about the heroic grafter who had walked through 18 miles of snow (for 8 hours) to get to work, or about the Japanese underwear model driving Jenson Button wild.

That’s it Mail – keep the nation informed

Iggy Plop

First I whinged about the surprising sight of John Lydon (nee Rotten) telling all about some brand of English butter that we should all be covering ourselves in for the cold snap (something like that!)  Now, horrified viewers are looking on with horror as Iggy Pop, disporting himself about the TV screen in a carefully choreographed display of wild wackiness, looking like nothing other than a CGI crispy duck, tries to sell us car insurance. Somebody, somewhere, obviously thought that this, in some strange way, was a good idea. I wonder if they still have their job?

What with all this snow stuff that’s been falling, causing half of the UK to down tools and hibernate, I reckon all this strangeness on our TV screens may be caused by global warming. You read it here first

Whatever next? … A holocaust-denying Catholic Bishop??

…You’re kidding me!?