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Sunday 26 June 2016

The news in brief 26th June 2016



Hey guys, I know we’ve covered this before, but part of democracy and freedom of speech is listening to and accepting ideas that you might not always agree with: Defending tooth and nail the right for some asshole to claim that shredless marmalade is better, when everyone with at least half a brain cell knows that shreds is where it’s at.  So, Remainers, if you could stop calling everyone who voted to leave the EU a tiny-minded bigoted xenophobe (unless they’re being one, then they were probably a dick long before there was a referendum) and Exiters, if you could give the Remainers a few days to mope, moan and take stock before you tell them to suck it up and stop whining, that’d be swell.

To help smooth over the cracks in our temporarily divided little island home, here’s this weeks celebrity news in brief:

Couple caught spending time together

Paparazzi intrudes on obviously private moment

Wild speculation

Family outing is not news

Woman’s cleavage is her own goddamned business

Woman wears bikini

Photographers capture woman doing shit all of interest

Breaking news: woman has bottom

Teenage nipples are not news

Photographing someone’s kid is still pretty fucking weird

Newspaper approves of woman’s appearance

Woman dresses appropriately for the weather

Stop the press:  woman has legs

Woman caught using telephone

Woman fails to conform to media’s narrow definition of beauty

Singer sings

Person with lots of money buys nice house

Woman conforms to media’s narrow definition of beauty

Nudes in brief: Fergie

And finally: people don’t automatically approve of you using a naked waxwork of them in a music video

Reading the news so you don’t have to...

Friday 24 June 2016

The news in brief 24th June 2016



Today’s news in brief:

A nation decided

A nation divided

Voter “didn’t realise it was serious”

Dummies spat

Man quits

Politician surprises no-one

Insensitive cunt has suspiciously short memory

Whole island community pretty hacked off

Economy totally fucked

“Thank Christ we used a pen” says exit voters

Article 50 not the same as General Order 66

Scotland demands a recount

David Dimbleby confirmed as unstoppable perpetual motion machine

In other news: religion’s bodycount continues to mount

Man’s inhumanity to man continues apace

Insufferable git makes an appearance

Breaking news: woman’s vagina not actually public property

Study states the obvious: Scots seldom walk 500 miles (even fewer walk 500 more)

Nudes in brief: Leah Michelle

And finally: There was no Beadle...

Reading the news so you don’t have to...

Wednesday 22 June 2016

The news in brief 22nd June 2016



The news in brief referendum addendum:

IN an effort to REMAIN impartial, we have not shared our personal beliefs. The news IN brief is committed to REMAINing impartial. We take the piss out of the news,  which ever way it goes.

We’re not here tomorrow as we will be out voting. Because democracy is cool. We’ll be back on Friday provided we’re not living in some bleak dystopian hellscape. Before we go, here’s the Summary Squirrel with his take on the week’s biggest story: