Terror babies: the latest in insidious Muslim plots
There is, quite literally, a new breed of terrorist on the loose in America, and they’ve seemingly got the whole country quaking into its Stetson boots. The threat? Terror Babies.
Neither an infant black metal band nor a gothier sort of stuffed toy, the Terror Babies are, if certain US politicians are to be believed, a [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 18 August 2010 at 12:45 pm
Germany vs England: The misappliance of science
Remember when we were beaten by Germany at the World Cup? Yeah, you do, we got spanked like naughty children. There was something about it in the papers the day after, I think.
Anyway, apparently, ze Germans are claiming that they didn’t beat us just by being better than us – they won with science. According [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | Sport | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 1:35 pm
Why is this news exactly, Daily Mail?
On page 4 of today’s Mail is an interesting little think-piece about motherhood and ethnicity in modern Britain.
A shy headline bellows: ‘Baby divide: Where just 1 in 10 mothers is white and British’, above a helpful map demonstrating the areas of Britain with the largest numbers of non-white or non-British new mothers.
The article continues in [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | Eagle Eye | Monday, 9 August 2010 at 4:42 pm
Germany terrorised by swarms of radioactive boar
Do not adjust your set, that headline is not a joke. It may sound like the premise for a particularly insipid Arts Council movie, but it’s true: hundreds of thousands of crazed, glowing, mutant boars are at large in Germany’s forests.
They’ve always had a problem with sounders of boar terrorising their countryside, and the mild [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Saturday, 7 August 2010 at 12:39 pm
Boris Bikes and the UN plot to take over the world
In today’s gentle look at the American lunatic fringe, we will be examining the sinister links between cycling and the impending one-world government of the New World Order.
You’ll be familiar, probably, with Boris Johnson’s brand new London cycle-hire scheme: 5,000 brand new bikes docked around the capital, available to all-comers to hire for a nominal [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 6 August 2010 at 11:00 am
The Impeachment of President Obama, Mark II
It is not a revelation to suggest that certain elements of the American political spectrum hold a dislike for their president. He is, in some circles, quite unpopular even.
He comes in for a degree of criticism. Fair enough, the US is a polarised place, politically, and George W Bush copped his share of abuse from [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 3 August 2010 at 2:53 pm
Is President Obama actually a harbinger of the Apocalypse?
Well, according to a couple of the US’ most prominent religious wingnuts, he might well be. In the following video – excerpted, of course, from America’s last bastion of sanity, the Fox News channel – Tim LaHaye, an extremely successful evangelical preacher, actually drops the A-bomb. Watch it and weep.
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 30 July 2010 at 1:03 pm
Florida Church planning to burn Qurans on 9/11
A Florida church is planning to burn a stack of Qurans on 11th September this year, in a tasteful effort to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre.
The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville, is charmingly trying to rebrand 9/11 as International Burn A Koran Day. If [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 28 July 2010 at 12:56 pm
I should have cocoa‘d: dark dealings in the chocolate world
Brace yourselves chocolate fans, because you could be in for a bit of a bumpy ride this year – there’s a feller trying to buy up the world’s supply of cocoa.
Hedge Fund manager Anthony Ward is looking ominously like a Bond villain for the modern era, with the news that he’s bought up 241,000 tonnes [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | Notebook | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 2:56 pm
Has the US right-wing media finally gone too far?
There’s quite the scandal brewing across the Atlantic at the moment, and for once it’s not one Liberals are having to watch through the cracks of their fingers.
It all started a couple of days ago, after right-wing doyen and Internet loudmouth Andrew Breitbart claimed to have uncovered damning video of a (black) Department of Agriculture [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 11:30 am
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