Sainsbury's poignant WW1 Christmas Truce advert raises money for Royal...
The Christmas advert contest has had an unexpectedly emotional new entrant. We all know the way it goes by now: every year, a bunch of different retailers put a lot of money into their Christmas...
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Pro-life pressure group asks two men to debate whether "abortion culture...
No, but really, though: what about the men?Timothy Stanley and Brendan O'Neill have strong opinions on your uterus, female readers. We thought you'd be pleased.So, the above is an actual debate about...
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Mail Online indulges in horrific ebola clickbait
Absolutely no downside here, nooooooooooo.Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. From Mail Online:Homeopathy could have cured Ebola if the World Health Organisation had not stepped in to prevent a trial,...
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Which MPs have the fewest vowels in their name? One man and his computer's...
MP I O U.Vowels. Photo: Flickr/kumsval Burrowing away through Twitter yesterday evening for a political story, sifting very respectfully through the forests of St George's flags, of course, this mole...
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Watch: the bizarre Band Aid behind-the-scenes video
The Band Aid participants have done a behind-the-scenes video, in which they get helicoptered to lunch at PR guru Matthew Freud's enormous mansion, which has "strawberries - everything".Do they know...
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What happens if you display six months of The Sun's pictures of every man and...
Wall of shame.Wall of shame. Photo: YouTube screengrab What happens if you collect The Sun for six months, cut out every picture of every man and every woman, find a wall, and start sticking? Well,...
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Ed Balls successfully zings Sarah Vine in best Ed Balls-related gag since Ed...
This is politics, Britain. You're welcome to it.Ed Balls. Photo: Getty Images Sarah Vine is a columnist for the Daily Mail (formerly of the Times) and one of the founders of beauty site Get The Gloss....
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Alan Rusbridger stepping down as Guardian editor-in-chief
Longstanding head stands down.Alan Rusbridge arrives at Portcullis House to face questions from the Home Affairs Committee on December 3, 2013 in London, England. Photo: Getty Images Alan Rusbridger,...
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Who will replace Alan Rusbridger at the Guardian?
We break down the runners and riders to be the next Guardian editor, as Alan Rusbridger announces his resignation after 20 years.Could Janine Gibson, left, succeed Alan Rusbridger as editor of the...
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READ: 32 statements the government rushed through and hoped you wouldn't read
Here are those ministerials statements they hoped you wouldn't notice. Kind of. It's a classic government technique: dump a load of ministerial statements out on the last day before recess in the hope...
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Belgian PM doused with chips and mayo in the most Belgian protest ever
Takes it in better humour than John Prescott getting hit with an egg.Belgian PM Charles Michel (left) being covered with chips by a LilithS protester (centre). Photo: Getty Images Charles Michel, the...
View ArticleWATCH: BBC reporter gets high during a report on burning opium
"Don't inhale." BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville has released a clip filmed four years ago of him being too high to complete a news report. It has never been aired until now. He was...
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What is the Independent editor's mystifying explanation of his paper's...
"Neo-Aristotelian, Whig radical".A radical Whig publication. Photo: Getty Have you ever looked at this country's mainstream newspapers, sighed, and wondered to yourself over a pensive breakfast why...
View ArticleWatch: "Rudeboy" John Humphrys attempts urban slang on Radio 4
"Blud." It has become an almost daily early-morning inevitability that radio grouch-cum-cantankerous dinosaur interrogator John Humphrys will wake us all up barking his way through a Today programme...
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Louise Mensch thinks Charlie Hebdo was one person
Former Tory MP believes strongly that "his" work should be celebrated.The Twitter logo. Photo: Getty Images Never let it be said that Louise Mensch lets ignorance get in the way of having opinions:...
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Question Time versus Newsnight on Charlie Hebdo: how to get it right (and...
Panel flannel. The perennial panel problems of the BBC's flagship political debate fixture, Question Time, were starkly revealed last night. In a week dominated by the terrifying news from France of...
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Rupert Murdoch had a thought about "Moslems" following Charlie Hebdo shooting
The media mogul says the world's 1.4 billion Muslims are "responsible" for the massacre of Charlie Hebdo's staff because they have not rooted out the "jihadist cancer". Rupert Murdoch has given his...
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"Err... Socrates didn't write anything": Mary Beard burns Culture Secretary...
Classic put-down.Mary Beard comprehensively burned Sajid Javid via Socrates. Photos: Getty What do you get when you pit a top classicist against our Secretary of State for Culture? A depressing...
View ArticleAl Murray announces he's running against Farage in South Thanet
"Let it be known, like many of the parliamentary hopefuls in the upcoming election, I have no idea where South Thanet is. But did that stop Margaret Thatcher from saving the Falkland Islands? No."...
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The pope on free speech: if someone was rude about my mother, I would punch him
The papal raging bull.Pope Francis. Photo: Getty Pope Francis has weighed in on the free speech debate prompted by the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Speaking from the papal plane (who knew he had...
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