The media vultures are circling high above the rotting carcass that is Britney Spears’ much-vaunted “career”. Her public image has been mashed and trashed by a concurrent series of disasters that has resulted in the family courts ripping her children from her bosom and placing them in the care of her trailer trash ex mate […]
How boy David downed mighty Goliath Gordon. – Cameron accused Brown of indecision and weakness, saying he had put the Labour Party’s interests before those of voters. – Brown Falls Behind in Polls as He Rules Out Election Game to Cameron. Cameron leads one game to love in the first set. RAIN STOPS PLAY
The Guardian puts Labour and the Tories on 38 per cent, an eight-point drop for Mr Brown’s party, and a six-point rise for Conservatives. The surge follows Mr Cameron’s unscripted conference speech at the annual party conference in Blackpool 40 – 15
It was a sad day when the TV world lost Ronnie Hazlehurst, who died in Guernsey on Monday 1st October. Ronnie Hazlehurst, the composer behind some of the television’s best loved theme tunes – from Blankety Blank to Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em – has died at the age of 79. The former BBC musical director […]
A friendly journalist sent me this press release this afternoon which he received from a PR agent. Its content surely heralds a new phase of celebrity hell. The journalist commented that it was probably one of the most unpleasant press releases of all time, but that it contained some zen wisdom about our celebrity age. He is right. […]
David Cameron has challenged Gordon Brown to call an immediate general election and “let the people decide”. 30 – 15
When you are up to your neck in crap and some one with a head cold spits at you what do you do – duck? Perhaps the worst but therefore the most lucrative account must be the Countrywide Financial (CFC). Mauled by the financial media for its questionable lending practices, announcing it will lay-off 12,000 […]
Tories to lift inheritance tax threshold to £1m 15 – LOVE Gordon Brown announces that UK troops in Basra are to be cut by 1,000 by the end of the year 15 – ALL
I spotted this “promotional tool” in today’s Independent. It’s a piece about a rather bizarre artist who paints portraits with his penis. Pricasso (ahem), as he calls himself, has recently demonstrated his talents at the Sexpo exhibition in Johannesburg. But I’m afraid he has all the hallmarks of a publicity stunt – one of the […]