‘Children as young as five were forced to labour fruitlessly on the windswept beach for up to 8 hours a day with nothing but a bucket and spade.’
Posted: Nov 17th, 2009
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The glittering wedding of Tabitha and Gordon Fitzroy was tarnished yesterday after the presence of a cloud shaped like an enormous penis literally cast a menacing shadow over the family photographs.
The wedding ceremony in Shanklin, Isle of Wight itself had gone beautifully, and the guests were in jubilant mood leaving the church, only to be greeted by a gigantic phallic cumulo-nimbus rearing obstinately and unmissably in the otherwise perfect blue skies above them.
Posted: Nov 7th, 2009
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‘I must say, I can’t see what all the fuss was ever about,’ gushed a stupidly grinning Jack Straw at a press conference in the gents’ toilets of Soho’s Groucho Club.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2009
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In a bid to update its image, the Scouting movement has taken the radical step of replacing old-style sew-on merit badges with a far more modern system of permanent and disfiguring tattoos.
Posted: Oct 14th, 2009
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The classical music world was plunged into discord last night as noted composer Ferdinand Glucklich-Pierre was arrested by riot police in emotional scenes immediately after the controversial first performance of his infamous ‘Symphony for bassoon and naked dwarfs’.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2009
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