Quote of the Day
From Richard Wallace giving evidence at the Leveson Inqury: Asked about bloggers, Wallace says: “The out and out cowboys – I don’t see in the […]
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Someone Fell for it
Following on from yesterdays cockwaffle about pancreatic cancer being caused by bacon butties, we get the hand-wringing Guardianista peddling their vegetarian religion again. People who’ve been […]
Eat Up Your Greens
Further to Mark Wadsworth’s generic scare story of the day in the comments over at OoL, we get this. Britons are not eating enough fruit […]
Janupause?
One of my managers used to have a month of abstinence. Every February he would go without the juice. As someone who liked a quaff […]
Tweeting Paedos
Another paedophile scare hits the news. I saw it yesterday on the news bulletin and was singularly unimpressed. But, then, the news rarely impresses me. […]
Scare Story du Jour
Today it is scary smart phones that cause us harm. But people become so obsessive about checking their email accounts and social networking sites that […]
Cadets in Schools
NickM covers this one pretty well and says pretty much what I think about the idea. EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove today unveils a plan to […]
Elderly Drinkers
Apparently the latest scare story of the day is that elderly folk are getting pissed up. There has been a sharp rise in the number […]