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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The news in brief 8th December 2015

Today’s news in brief:

Donald Trump (allegedly) believes that parts of London are so radical that the police are afraid to go there.  

We think parts of London are radical too. I mean the Natural History Museum is pretty wicked.

Here's a few more ‘facts' that the 45th President of the United States probably thinks about our fair capital:

There are corgis everywhere

It's actually in Scotland

The ghost of William Shakespeare can be seen most nights wandering aimlessly,  despairing at all the foreign types

Big Ben is just a clever optical illusion

It is all downhill

The river is actually on loan from Wolverhampton

There almost no white people still living above ground

The Queen converted to Islam in 1983

Almost everyone has been murdered at least once

The capital’s first language is ‘Muslamic'

In some rougher areas The Great Fire of London is still burning

No-one dares drink tea anymore

Wombles are the number one killer of god-fearing, gun-owning republicans

Crumpets

Winston Churchill still stands on London’s sandy beaches, single handedly fighting off non-Christians

Thanks to the lack of handguns, there's a home invasion every 4.1 seconds (and that's just the SW1 postcode)

Everyone is dead from Obamacare

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Monday, 7 December 2015

The news in brief 7th December 2015



Today’s news in brief:

Product placement isn’t news (even if it’s jolly festive)

We’re still having some weather

Surprise, surprise it all comes down to oil…

e-readers killed the paperback star

Economy still pretty shit

Country has pretty neat idea (but it probably won’t catch on)

Pro tip: don’t take toy bombs onto planes

Man’s inhumanity to man continues apace

Want to overthrow western democracy? There’s an app for that

Ad campaign kinda misses the point

Shop forgets how to capitalism

Religion’s bodycount continues to mount

Man’s shed is better than yours

People act like cunts on the Internet

River eats bridge #badflood

Waterfall returns from beyond the grave #goodflood  

Newspaper scrapes the bottom of the barrel for news

Other newspaper reports newspaper scraping the bottom of the barrel for news

Satirical news blog points out other newspaper reporting newspaper scraping the bottom of the barrel for news

Stars in their bras: Selena Gomez

And finally: shopping centre Santa gets it absolutely right

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Sunday, 6 December 2015

The news in brief 5th December 2015

This week's celebrity news in brief:

Game Show results inexplicably news

Wardrobe malfunction

Woman wears dress

Newspaper approves of woman’s clothes

Stop the press: woman not wearing a bra

Woman has legs

Cleavage is not news

Woman conforms to media's narrow definition of beauty

Newspaper doesn’t like woman’s clothes

Pregnant woman looks a bit pregnant

Man wears hat

Celebrity breakup somehow our business

Woman updates social media

Parent caught parenting

Paparazzi intrudes on family day out

Woman dresses appropriately for the weather

Pro tip assholes: James Corden probably isn’t ‘playing' the doting dad…

Stars in the bras: Paris Hilton

And finally: after approximately 40 weeks of gestation,  pregnant woman gives birth

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The news in brief 4th and 5th December 2015

Friday and Saturday’s news in brief:

Human race still pretty shit

Economy marginally better than it was (in the 1920s)

Government remembers that the North of England exists

We’ve totally had some weather

Army sent to sort out Cumbria (it's about fucking time)

Europe apparently can't learn from history

Man's inhumanity to man continues apace

Business doesn't give two shits about it's employees

Bigots surprise no-one

Religion's bodycount continues to mount

Product placement still NOT news

Beatles still not on Spotify

Collector probably has more money than you

Mad suggestion that politicians should act like grownups

Man really likes whacking it

Pro tip: positive discrimination is still discrimination

Bishop suggests TV not actually evil

Scaremongering speculation

Attention-seeking hyper-bitch swears she'll be back

Hungry enough to eat a horse? Well now you totally can!

Nudes in brief: 80s Madonna

And finally: Lenny Henry and Ainsley Harriott are NOT the same person...

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Thursday, 3 December 2015

The news in brief 3rd December 2015

Today’s news in brief:

Oh my. It's truly a terrible world sometimes isn't it? We're not doing The news in brief today. Here’s a picture of a kitten I drew instead:

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

The news in brief 2nd December 2015

Today’s news in brief:

War, huh? What is it good for?

Stopping ISIS says PM

Indiscriminately killing with no real end in sight says opposition

It suffices to say that man's inhumanity to man continues apace

Bile-foaming hatemonger still oddly popular

Mindless ignorance caught on camera

Environment still pretty boned

Elves probably not a government conspiracy

Winter wonderland surprises no-one

Study states the obvious: healthy diet and exercise good for you

Pop drinkers cry nanny state

Actual science suggests men and women both from Earth

Pro tip: don't fucking drink and drive!

Right to die taken to new extreme

Man really hates his fucking job

Charity does some damned fine shit

People act like pricks on the Internet

Bum bras inexplicably a thing

Just so we’re clear - not wanting to bomb people does NOT make you a ‘terrorist sympathiser ‘

Nudes in brief: Gigi Hadid

And finally: baby ducklings freak out when they first see water

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Tuesday, 1 December 2015