I heard the news today, oh boy..

[Brendan]

It is an illustration that the British idea of ?class? doesn't really apply anymore.

[citizenED]

Nice work if you can get it. Banksy Wall

[mockney piers]

I loved this tale of aspirations in perspective.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/what_we_have_vs_what_we_want.html

[mockney piers]

Even London's sporting events affected by gang violence and gun crime

[Brendan]

And from the news desk for the bleeding obvious:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7201874.stm

When I read this I though it was a Daily Mash headline.

[mockney piers]

Ha ha, yes I thought the same this morning.

My colleague and I have noticed that it's increasingly difficult to tell the two apart!!

[mockney piers]

"The world has been brought to the brink of depression by a ridiculous consumer spending spree fuelled by cheap credit and home makeover shows. So let's keep it going."

Once again a quote from the Daily Mash is news masquerading as satire.

[lozzyloz]

LOL.

I laughed early yesterday morning when the "expert" financial pundits said, "Oh no, the Fed won't bring in rate cuts early. That would signal a panic."

Isn't it also amusing how the so called highly paid, hugely bonused, financial experts in the worlds big banks have all screwed up big time to the tune of billions being written of as bad debt and billions being wiped of the stock markets. I reckon the average housewife would do a better job.

[Brendan]

In a world beset with tolerance, finally a guilt free prejudice. Apparently the bus company Arriva is gothist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7204543.stm

[mightyroar]

Brendan that is genuis.

[East Dulwich Angst]

Three Little Pigs 'too offensive' ::o:-S(6)

[barrymarshall]

daft, isn't it?

thing is, no-one's actually asked any Muslims if they think it offends. I somehow doubt it does ...

[Huguenot]

I knew it!!

They've got to stop pushin' so hard....

[mockney piers]

This makes for disturbing reading

I knew my fear of flying was rational and not a phobia.

Some comfort that this is in the states I guess, but not alot.

[SeanMacGabhann]

spooky, Piers - I was just about to post this

The Airline Pilots forum - Guardian 1st Feb

[mockney piers]

and me this

Geeks, the modern Butlers, did it

spooky cross posting indeed!

[atila the gooner]

I read a story in one of the freebies given out at the train station this morning regarding the young woman murdered in Croydon and the trial of her alleged killer. He is claiming that he had sex with her dead body but didn't kill her. I don't know which is the more heinous crime, and why he would think that one is less despicable than the other. It makes your skin crawl.

[Keef]

Yeah I heard that on the radio last night, pretty twisted stuff, and if you are using that as your "defence", then chances are you don't have much of an alibi... Guilty as sin me thinks.

[atila the gooner]

That's the thing he seems to think that it will be helpful in his defence, makes you wonder what the inmates will make of this guy if he gones for a stay in one of HM's hostels.

[Keef]

Well maybe it's a masterstroke. His lawyer gets them to believe this story, and he does up in a secure psychiatric hospital instead of a prison where he'd probably receive regular kickings.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

if he can convince them he's a corpse shagger, it would better than getting a mandatory life sentence for murder, I would imagine.

[Keef]

Who is going to believe he just stumbbled acroos this girl dead on her doorstep and thought he'd get his jollies?

[Asset]

Trip to Cornwall anyone?

[mockney piers]

With so much 'informed' opinion in the press coming from briefings in hotels or armchair pundits *ahem, wouldn't know about that* it's good to see good journalism can still get into the mainstream.

It's long at 11 pages but worth the effort

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/magazine/24afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[SeanMacGabhann]

Thanks so much for that Piers - top notch stuff

that line "We?re all to the point of ?Lord of the Flies." is lingering with me