Apparently, the Labour party leadership contest frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn, wants to dredge the decomposing corpse of Osama bin Laden from the seabed and then marry it. And he wants to live with the dead body of Bin Laden in Islington, as if it were his gay-zombie husband, in a sick leftwing pantomime of the heterosexual…
As Observer-reading ABC1 cultural consumers, our carefully cultivated tastes in film, in literature and in oak-aged cheeses are the exquisite hand-crafted carnival masks that we wear as armour in the awkward middle-class dinner party of life. But the tragic consequences of last week’s Spotify data hack continue to unravel. And we wonder privately what could…
Hair, teeth and ears all present and correct: is Iain Duncan Smith too good to be true? Photograph: ITV/REX Shutterstock Last week, the Department for Work and Pensions tsar, Iain Duncan Smith, was revealed to have fabricated a pamphlet featuring two entirely fictitious former benefit claimants, using Conservative party stationery cupboard scissors and an adhesive…
Last month I was in Languedoc, formerly the fabled Cathar country, a remote outpost of heroic resistance to oppressive distant rulers. This month I am in Edinburgh. Plus ça change. I don’t feel happy away from home at the moment. Like you, I have a terrible feeling that in the last three months the society…
Due to its legendary nose for news, last week’s Sunday Times was first to reveal the “eight experts” chosen by culture secretary John Whittingdale to “help decide the BBC’s future”, the Murdoch empire barely able to wait to share its horror at the venerable institution’s latest humiliation. And what a golden shower of talent Whittingdale…
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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John Robins, Comedian
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter