Category: Hell in a handcart

  • Going to the pub? You’ll need to pass a drugs test first

    For crying out loud. Pub-goers in Aberdeen are facing a drugs test before entering bars as part of a crackdown by Grampian Police. Officers in the force will be the first in Scotland to use an Itemiser – a device which can detect traces of drugs from hand swabs in a matter of seconds. The…

  • State-sponsored punching

    Hurrah for Ealing Primary Care Trust, which has decided to liven up people’s cigarette breaks by providing people you can punch. At least, I think that’s the idea. ‘Smoking police’ will target people at betting shops, bus stops and shopping centres to shock them into giving up cigarettes… A team of 11 young people have…

  • God help us if there’s a war

    The youth of today, eh? For most people, losing out on the chance of a new job is not something you want to shout about. But rather than keep it quiet, Darren Mirren failed to show up for his interview and then sued the employer when he could not find his way to the office…

  • The “let’s post stupid comments on the Mail website” movement is still going on, I see

    The story: BAA will have to sell some airports. The comment: well said Kieth of Somerset, definetly should be a UK Ownership, but with Nu Labour and PC Brigade, probably sold to El QUADA

  • ASDA wants to edit your magazines

    Bloody hell. Asda has come under fire from independent magazine publishers for proposed alterations to distribution arrangements that include the supermarket being given editorial space in the publications it stocks… Asda’s demands include a request for two pages of editorial or advertising space each month in titles of the company’s choosing. And there’s an increase…

  • Let’s just nuke the planet from orbit

    OK, I know I’m talking about the Daily Mail here, but the comments on this story make me want to kill people. Story first: When Suzanne Richards and Sarah Dobinson decided to sell their £650,000 home, they expected professional service from their estate agents. Instead, they were left feeling ‘insulted and violated’ after a staff…

  • Highway to Heck

    O Noes! AC/DC The Musical!

  • Despicable rags

    Obsolete has written a fantastic post about Robert Murat’s successful libel action against 11 – 11! – newspapers. the truly unprecedented payout to Robert Murat by not just the Express papers but every single one of the daily tabloids with the exception of the Daily Sport, three of the Sunday tabloids and also the Scotsman…

  • Seven-word DVD review: Jesus Camp (documentary)

    Makes you want to punch a nun. Supplemental review: could do without the doomy music. What’s on-screen is scary enough, so the music’s just annoying.

  • “I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that God’s got a sick sense of humour…”

    Remember the attempts by Christian Voice to prosecute various people over Jerry Springer: The Opera? And the £90,000 costs awarded against CV’s Stephen Green? It seems Green is asking for some good old-fashioned Christian charity from the very people he tried to prosecute. The money is due to be paid today, but Stephen Green doesn’t…