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By Jack Riley | Notebook, Sport | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 7:14 pm
Alarming Cliché Count
David Mills draws Nick Clegg’s article for today’s Sun to my attention, saying, in the tone of Obi-Wan Kenobi when Qui-Gon Jinn tests Anakin Skywalker for midi-chlorians, that it contains “more clichés per 100 words than any piece of political copy I have ever seen.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 6:13 pm
Ashes heroes, Hodgson gone, and how to bring back the magic of the FA Cup
So I’ve clearly been celebrating the Ashes victory out in Aus for far too long, and haven’t got around to writing a blog for a few days, although I do have a reason, turns out you can get something called “Sprinklers Elbow”, a terrible condition which can strike at any time, if you happen to have been doing the Sprinkler dance to every Australian you see for about a week!
By Luke Wilkins | Sport | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 5:36 pm
It’s a hoax! The Great Twitter Pro-ana Experiment…
We all knew it anyway. Here lies the explanation behind the ridiculous behaviour of a cretin named Kenneth.
By Ilona Burton | Notebook | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 5:32 pm
The FA are the only joke in the Ryan Babel tweet saga
Liverpool winger Ryan Babel posted a mocked-up picture of Howard Webb on Sunday on the social networking site Twitter.
The image showed the referee wearing a Manchester United shirt, along with the words: “And they call him one of the best referees? That’s a joke. SMH (shaking my head).”
Babel apologised for the post later that same [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 2:58 pm
The Diamond loses its sparkle
Diamond also kept stating that Barclays was a well managed bank that came through the crisis in good shape. This is a myth. Barclays had made $22.9bn in write downs by the first quarter of 2010.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 1:59 pm
The Greatest Literary Moments in Film (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Film)
The upcoming release of Never Let Me Go, adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s widely acclaimed novel, will doubtless prompt a familiar anxiety in cinema audiences. Palms will sweat over plot deviation, expletives will be uttered about the casting of Keira Knightley. The fear that a film will butcher a beloved book is so widespread that you [...]
Inflammatory political rhetoric: a musical view
Inflammatory rhetoric is something that, recently, I’ve been thinking about a great deal; about its capacity to drown out more reasoned political debate, and to give rise to rage. Following the shooting of the Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the death of six members of her audience at a public meeting, the Republicans are currently [...]
By Musa Okwonga | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 12:33 pm
Lionel Messi teaches us that being selfish is good
The old adage which you hear on the training ground that the ‘team comes before the player’ needs to be thrown out of the window.
If you think that you are the best, don’t look for your semi-talented, occasionally good but generally mediocre team mates to support you, but just take that ball and run like [...]
By Varun Mathure | Sport | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 12:26 pm
A word in defence of Eric Illsley
There is no excuse for the crimes to which Eric Illsley has pleaded guilty to day. He compounded the offence by standing for re-election in Barnsley Central last May when he should have known that this was how his career would end.
Even so, I can’t pretend to be glad to witness his self-destruction, because of [...]
By Andy McSmith | McSmith | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 at 11:54 am
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