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Handbagged by Meghan – Meghan Markle handbag for sale – Handbag created by Louis Vuitton to “celebrate” the marriage of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry to be auctioned for a crazy sum. Fellow Auctioneers are selling the lot in their online 8th June 2020 sale and have set an estimate of £12,000 to £18,000 ($15,100 to $22,700, €13,500 to €20,200 or درهم55,500 to درهم83,300).

Wally of the Week – Stephanie Pratt

June 3, 2020

Shoplifter Stephanie Pratt fulfils her prattish surname in urging urges cops to shoot shoplifters.

Beautiful Bolehyde

June 2, 2020

Wiltshire manor house once owned by the Duchess of Cornwall and considered as a home by the Duchess of Cambridge’s parents again for sale. Bolehyde Manor is offered for £3.75 million.

Wigan Wanderer Whacked Out

June 2, 2020

Woman from Wigan named Deborah Barlow wins latest round in the long-running case of ‘walk in a park ruined by exposed tree root’ at the Court of Appeal.

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EDITORIAL

Editorial comment from Matthew Steeples

EDITORIAL

Distraction Dom

May 24, 2020

Matthew Steeples suggests devious Dominic Cummings might actually be the best asset bungling Boris Johnson has got left; the king of distraction has made Jennifer Arcuri go away.

EDITORIAL

Locked Down Archers

May 9, 2020

Matthew Steeples suggests BBC Radio 4 has truly let itself down in having run out of episodes of ‘The Archers’ during the...

EDITORIAL

On Yer Bike Nige

May 5, 2020

As Nigel Farage ludicrously suggests Britain is “a country of doubtful democratic legitimacy” (in spite of it giving him the Brexit he...

THE ROLL CALL

A list of influence

OBSERVERS

CAMPAIGNERS

Barbara Smoker (1923 – 2020)

April 24, 2020

A promoter of “causes many of us now take for granted,” Catford born campaigner and humanist activist Barbara Smoker believed in surviving “on her...

Emily Bolton

CAMPAIGNERS April 18, 2020

A Shackleton Award winning campaigner who “fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform,” practicing solicitor Emily Bolton is married to Reprieve founder and one...

Jessica Jackson Sloan (born Jessica Hurst)

CAMPAIGNERS April 6, 2020

Born in Alabama in 1982, Jessica Jackson Sloan has morphed from a high-school dropout with a baby and a drug addict, jailbird husband in...

Dame Louise Casey DBE, CB

CAMPAIGNERS April 1, 2020

In 2018, Tony Blair’s former ‘homelessness tsar’ Dame Louise Casey “blasted” Theresa May’s government as anything but “kind.” A former director of Shelter and...

PERSONALITIES

CHARACTERS

Luke Durbin

May 6, 2020

Luke Durbin from Hollesley, near Woodbridge went missing aged just 19 after a night out with friends in Ipswich. After after being unable to...

Steve Cotten (AKA ‘Britain’s Grumpiest Landlord’)

CHARACTERS April 28, 2020

Alongside a cat (yes, a cat) named ‘(Frederick Albert) Hitler’ as his barman, the landlord of the “maddest pub in Britain” Steve Cotten is...

Alan Holmes (1943 – 1996)

PERSONALITIES April 18, 2020

Attacked for just £1,000 in his own home in Parkway, Camden, NW1 on Christmas Day 1995, Derry born police mechanic Alan Holmes was left...

Mike Posner

PERSONALITIES April 6, 2020

Detroit born singer-songwriter Mike Posner became best known after the remixed version of I Took A Pill In Ibiza went viral. Whilst that single...

CREATIVES

Susie Steiner

April 20, 2020

“I’m sorry I still love him” unabashedly declared author, journalist and “stationary addict” Susie Steiner of Tony Blair on Twitter during the coronavirus lockdown...

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

CREATIVES April 13, 2020

Described in The Telegraph’s obituary of him as a “publisher, wit and author,” Michael Russell is best known for writing the spoof memoirs of...

Evelyn McHale (1923 – 1947)

CREATIVES April 11, 2020

Little is known about what drove Evelyn McHale to jump from the Empire State Building and be captured in the “most beautiful suicide ...

Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE (1930 – 2001)

CREATIVES February 10, 2019

A resident of a Chelsea houseboat named ‘Undine’ from 1953, Dame Dorothy Tutin was “one of UK’s most versatile actresses” and someone whom “bridged...

BUSINESS

Penny Streeter OBE (née Penny Stiff)

April 29, 2020

A classic ‘rags to riches’ tale is that of Penny Streeter. Born in what was then Rhodesia, this police superintendent’s daughter came to England...

Lawrence Stroll (born Lawrence Strulovitch)

BUSINESS April 21, 2020

Montreal born “archetypal billionaire,” “fashion mogul” and “Ferrari fanatic” Lawrence Stroll arranged £536 million of funding to save Aston Martin, much of which came...

Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)

BUSINESS March 29, 2020

New Haven, Connecticut born Sarah Winchester became one of the wealthiest women in the world after the death of her Winchester Repeating Arms Company...

Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)

BUSINESS December 31, 2019

“The greatest miser” and “richest woman in America” during the Gilded Age, Hetty Green lived by the rule of “buy cheap and sell dear.”...

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EDITORIAL

Editorial comment from Matthew Steeples

EDITORIAL

Distraction Dom

May 24, 2020

Matthew Steeples suggests devious Dominic Cummings might actually be the best asset bungling Boris Johnson has got left; the king of distraction has made Jennifer Arcuri go away.

EDITORIAL

Locked Down Archers

May 9, 2020

Matthew Steeples suggests BBC Radio 4 has truly let itself down in having run out of episodes of ‘The Archers’ during the...

EDITORIAL

On Yer Bike Nige

May 5, 2020

As Nigel Farage ludicrously suggests Britain is “a country of doubtful democratic legitimacy” (in spite of it giving him the Brexit he...

OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Luxury and the arts

OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Handbagged by Meghan

June 3, 2020

Handbag created by Louis Vuitton to “celebrate” the marriage of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry to be auctioned for a crazy sum.

OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Beautiful Bolehyde

June 2, 2020

Wiltshire manor house once owned by the Duchess of Cornwall and considered as a home by the Duchess of Cambridge’s parents again for sale. Bolehyde Manor is offered for £3.75 million.

OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Are We Nearly Redundant Yet?

May 31, 2020

Travel writer Sarah Tucker shares news of her latest novella – it’s timely and its titled ‘The Redundant Travel Journalist’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

The snakes and ladders of society

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Wally of the Week – Stephanie Pratt

June 3, 2020

Shoplifter Stephanie Pratt fulfils her prattish surname in urging urges cops to shoot shoplifters.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

A Really Useful Angelis

May 31, 2020

Matthew Steeples remembers the Liverpudlian actor and voice of ‘Thomas & Friends’ Michael Angelis (18th January 1952 – 30th May 2020).

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Mixed Up McGee

May 26, 2020

Dippy Debbie McGee yet again confirms her status as the ultimate airhead in boasting about her connections to ‘Randy Andy’ and is met with a denial from a royal source.

TIPPLE & FARE

Food, drink and fine dining

TIPPLE & FARE

Beer is Very Good For You

May 30, 2020

Dutch scientist Professor Eric Claassen confirms a beer a day “would be very good for you” and suggests drinking such protects against insomnia, dementia and obesity.

TIPPLE & FARE

A Magnum Muckup

May 22, 2020

Unilever ludicrously forced to “urgently” recall Magnum ice cream because it contains MILK. Health and safety busybodies at their finest.

TIPPLE & FARE

Hero of the Hour – Adrian Chiles

May 21, 2020

BBC presenter Adrian Chiles’s delight in the simple pleasures of a pint in a park during lockdown reflects how so many feel.

THE SPORTING LIFE

From playing the field to buying a team

THE SPORTING LIFE

Moron of the Moment – Larysa Switlyk

May 20, 2020

“Bitch of the first order” Larysa Switlyk takes to Instagram during the coronavirus lockdown to brag about her latest massacres; this moronic monster previously paid to shoot sheep in England.

THE SPORTING LIFE

Lockdown Lunacy

May 20, 2020

Aleks Walker examines what famous folk have been doing at home during the coronavirus lockdown and identifies some quite bizarre examples.

THE SPORTING LIFE

Strategic Gambling

May 14, 2020

Peter Niven suggests some of the best gambling strategies that punters can use to counter “the house always winning” “The house...

THE FOG

The economy, politics and current affairs

THE FOG

Wigan Wanderer Whacked Out

June 2, 2020

Woman from Wigan named Deborah Barlow wins latest round in the long-running case of ‘walk in a park ruined by exposed tree root’ at the Court of Appeal.

THE FOG

Justice for James Scurlock

May 31, 2020

Power of social media proven after senseless killing of James Scurlock in Omaha, Nebraska allegedly by a controversial bar owner named Jake Gardner who has been photographed with Donald Trump.

THE FOG

Boris Johnson’s alleged ex-mistress Jennifer Arcuri has slammed the NHS coronavirus tracking app and suggested: “There is no way I would download that!” Separately, it’s claimed she’s going on ‘Hunted’ on Channel 4.

BRAINSTORM

The comings and goings of the entrepreneurial classes

BRAINSTORM

Nasty NestSeekers

June 1, 2020

Entitled Hamptons brat Jonathan Davis exposed for allegedly squatting in Sag Harbor during the coronavirus lockdown; it turns out he’s a realtor with NestSeekers.

BRAINSTORM