Archive for December, 2007

Radio 1 censors Christmas Classic

Tuesday, 18th December, 2007

According to the Register and the BBC itself, BBC Radio 1 has taken on itself to partially censor the Christmas classic “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues and the late Kirsty MacColl.
The line is question is “You scumbag, you maggot you cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your arse I pray God It’s our last”. […]

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John Darwin falls short of enacting Palindrome

Sunday, 9th December, 2007

No doubt most people are aware of the current story regarding John Darwin faking his own death in a canoe in the North Sea five years ago, and his wife moving to Panama on the proceeds of the life insurance.
Now if only he’d tried faking his death on a canal boat, he would have been […]

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