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Category: Media Matters

  • Taking The (Brueckner) Biscuit – No Charges Still In Madeleine McCann Case

    Taking The (Brueckner) Biscuit – No Charges Still In Madeleine McCann Case

    As it emerges that the Germans are taking the biscuit and the prospect of Christian Brueckner being charged in the Madeleine McCann case has slimmed further, isn’t it time that this pointless £14 million investigation was closed down?

    After Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times and Alexis Parr and Richard Eden of the Daily Mail shared an appeal for a missing friend, William Cookson, useful leads poured in that helped lead to his location being identified. Wonderfully, William was subsequently found, but meanwhile the Metropolitan Police – a force rightly currently being analysed for its gross incompetence – continue their charade of ‘investigating’ the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann.

     

    With £14 million thrown already down the Thomas Crapper by that incompetent set of officers on a search for a child that would have been found given some nefarious sort would have come forward to trade some other nefarious sort in given the rewards on offer, it wasn’t surprising this morning when The Mirror – one of the few papers to report honestly on this case – shared news that the chances of the definitely vile sex offender Christian Brueckner has slimmed further.

     

    In an “exclusive” article about how the German – referenced in many titles just as ‘Christian B’ – likely faces charges of a number of other sex offences, Patrick Hill and Rob Hill for the paper claimed: “There is no end in sight for the Maddie probe itself.”

     

    Hans Christian Wolters, the head of the inquiry into the ‘disappearance’ of the child of Gerry and Kate McCann in Germany, added: “The investigation into Maddie is still ongoing. A conclusion is not insight. I really can’t say how long the investigation will take. It is also not certain whether an indictment can be made in the end.”

     

    Previously and also writing for the red-top, Jerry Lawton and Ryan Merrifield revealed: “There is no evidence that the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case was responsible for her disappearance, claims an investigator. Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas says the then-toddler’s real abductor will now likely get away with it due to the narrow-minded focus on Christian Brueckner.”

     

    Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers

    Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:

    • Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?

     

    • Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?

    • Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?

    • Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?

     

     

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    Kate McCann – a woman who went running, played tennis and dined on chicken and mushroom risotto and egg and watercress salads washed down with strawberry vodka with the paedophile Sir Clement Freud in the days after her daughter ‘disappeared’ – has a clear touch of the Duchess of Sussex about her. Like ‘MeGain,’ whom banged on that “not many people have asked if I’m OK,” Mrs McCann said in 2011: “Officers walked past us as if we weren’t there. Nobody asked how we were doing, whether we were okay. Our child had been stolen and I felt as if I didn’t exist.”
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    Living it Large – Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).
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    Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late ex-husband Sir Christopher and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
    In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in September 2022, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest.
  • Mind-Blowing, Moaning, Money Motivated Meghan Markle… Or Just A Predictably Petulant Princess?

    Mind-Blowing, Moaning, Money Motivated Meghan Markle… Or Just A Predictably Petulant Princess?

    Is it that mind-blowing that the Duchess of Sussex thinks she’s helping her cause with her latest antics? Isn’t this just instead yet another predictable example of her showing her truly self-serving character?

    Deservedly condemned by Tom Bower in Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors and hinted at as potentially a “yacht girl” for Prince Andrew by Kirby Sommers in July, the mendacious minx formerly known as Meghan Markle has very predictably scored multiple further own goals in recent days. Why, given her past form, anyone is surprised however is quite beyond comprehension.

     

    Aside from condescendingly comparing herself to Nelson Mandela – for which she unsurprisingly got slammed by the late South African president’s grandson Zwelivelile Mandela – the Duchess of Sussex was also called out as not having “an iota of common sense” by the New York Post’s Maureen Callahan.

     

    Going further, in an opinion piece widely saluted titled “Toddler and tiara: Meghan Markle STILL throwing tantrums about royal family,” Callahan added:

     

    “This woman has nothing to say. She has nothing to offer, no original thoughts or guiding philosophy, no earthly reason to be taking so much money from, and so much space in, the mainstream media she so clearly despises.”

     

    Summing her up as “the Greta Garbo of Montecito,” a new “Queen of All Things Sufferable” and “the Petulant Princess,” the award winning “Top 50 Power Women 2016” journalist amongst other things suggested:

     

    “I must concede her lone accomplishment here: Just when you think Meghan Markle can’t get any more delusional, she outdoes herself. Her self-regard runs in direct opposition to her waning relevance. She clearly has no real friends left — or even decent publicists… Meghan is an inveterate liar.”

     

    “What will make Meghan happy? Hell if she knows. The only solace she finds from this existential torment, it seems, is sitting for fancy photo shoots and talking to friendly journalists.”

     

    “Left to her own devices here, Meghan returns to her default mode, perseverating over the Queen’s refusal to give her and Harry everything they wanted: namely, to monetize [sic] their royal status while owing nothing in public service.”

     

    “’I think forgiveness is really important,’ Meghan says, adding that she has ‘a lot to say until I don’t. Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song.’ Meghan Markle, two very weary nations beg you: Please. Be that silent part.”

     

    Though outrage at the conduct of the Duchess of Sussex and ultimately also her drip of a husband towards the Queen and other members of both the House of Windsor and her own birth family is understandable, this ridiculous woman is simply incapable of accepting that it is her that is at fault. It seems that ambitious and audacious ‘MeGain’ will stop at nothing to achieve her next goal – the keys to the White House.

     

    Banana
    Known for slipping on proverbial bananas – as well as writing patronising messages on them to prostitutes – the wife of Prince Charles’s second son is clearly on a path where she will create more embarrassment and bring yet more havoc to both her marital and birth families. It is an outrage that nobody urges her to see sense and teaches her to behave with a modicum of decorum and an ounce of decency.
    Here is a woman who won’t stop until she next seizes high office. It is clear that a political career is very much on the agenda of this self-obsessed ex-D-list actress.

    Can anyone solve a problem like ‘Mind-Blowing MeGain’?

    • In November 2021, the duchess was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement in her privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.
    • Her very own father, Thomas, has called out her many untruths about him and others again, again and again.
    • Of her claiming having got married the day before she actually did, Mr Markle stated: “Lying about the archbishop? How can you say: ‘We’ve been married three days before we got married’? Her lies are so obvious, I don’t know why she says them.”
    • Her very own half-sister, Samantha, who is currently bringing a defamation case against her, has called her out as a liar on multiple occasions also. It has been proven that the duchess’s claim that she hasn’t seen her sibling in over 20 years was proven untrue when a photo of the pair 13 years ago emerged.
    • Her very own half-brother, Thomas Jr., said of her: “I told Prince Harry, I think she’s going to ruin your life. She’s very shallow… She’s a phony, a bully, a jaded, shallow, conceited woman.”
    • The former Meghan Markle has been called out on multiple occasions for spinning stories against other members of the royal family, most especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
    • Staff who’ve worked for her have complained that she is a bully and investigations into this remain ongoing.
    • The Duchess of Sussex is a known manipulator of the press and paparazzis and it has been claimed that she’ll “twist the truth” to get any headline she wants.
    • Questions remain as to how many times she’s actually been married in total. Some say twice, some say thrice.
    • “Would you trust this woman with a bargepole?” is something often asked of this money motivated minx.

     

    Twitter reacts to ‘MeGain’s’ latest antics…

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  • Getting Johnny Depp’s Goat – Ridiculous Rabid Ranter Arwa Mahdawi

    Getting Johnny Depp’s Goat – Ridiculous Rabid Ranter Arwa Mahdawi

    Rabid ranter, author and brand strategist Arwa Mahdawi’s enthusiasm for goats and dislike of Johnny Depp shows her as ridiculous suggests Matthew Steeples

    “It’s time we stopped telling women to act like men and started telling men to lead like women” reads a banner on Strong Female Lead author and New York based brand strategist Arwa Mahdawi’s Twitter handle.

     

    Bizarrely, next, in her description of herself on the aforementioned social media site – which also includes a Linktr.ee promoting her book that is said to contain “incest in Iceland, garbage trucks in Taiwan and cuckoo clocks in Texas” – Mahdawi bangs on about “goat jokes” but claims her book is “not about goats.” She doesn’t, however, say whether she’s ever had an encounter with the Capreolus Club or whether she’s ever joined them to “take a break from deer” to slay such ruminant mammals in the north of England or Scotland.

     

    Now, this morning in an opinion piece for The Guardian, in spite of Johnny Depp clearly having been very much victorious in his American libel battle against Amber Heard, Mahdawi declared that “misogyny is more alluring to many people than facts” and suggested that a “lot of unpleasant new information about Depp” has recently been revealed.

     

    Going further, in a clearly biased rant against the Pirates of the Caribbean star, the columnist added: “It’s important to note that’s as if he looked like a boy scout in the first place… Depp has a well-documented history of toxic behaviour.” She then added: “There was a very long line of people ready to dismiss his bad behaviour while jumping on any excuse to paint Heard in a negative light.”

     

    Though Mahdawi contined: “Heard endured merciless mocking and walked away with her reputation in tatters, while Hollywood largely rallied around Depp,” I will again stand by my article of 4th May and again repeat that “though Depp clearly has issues and is far from perfect,” it is, as his own lawyer Benjamin Chew pointed out, Heard who is the abuser in this story.

     

    After all, as I remarked then of Heard: “Here indeed is a woman who supposedly chopped off part of her husband’s finger, stubbed out cigarettes in his face and relieved herself in their marital bed. Reportedly ‘jealous’ of her husband’s fame and prone to ‘experiencing increased agitation… anger and rage’ according to her own personal nurse Erin Falati, here also is a troubled bisexual drug user with a ‘familial history of substance abuse… anxiety, eating disorder[s], Attention Deficit Disorder, bipolar disorder, codependence issues and occasional insomnia.’”

     

    Aside from the kind of bag of bilge written by her this morning about the deserved victor in the Depp v Heard case, Mahdawi has penned many other columns that have been equally ludicrous. In 2019, she wrote a piece about air conditioning titled: “Is your home constantly set a ‘sexist’ temperature? You’re not alone: A new study finds men tend to get their way in household temperature discussions while women must compromise.”

     

    Strong Female Lead
    ‘The Guardian’ columnist begs people to “plz buy my book” on her Twitter feed. She has 17,700 followers but whether each and every one of them has actually bought ‘Strong Female Lead’ is unknown. The clearly patronising book was “published in paperback [on] 26th May 2022.”
    Capreolus Club goat slaughter
    What this somewhat crackpot crazy author’s views are on goat slaying and the Capreolus Club are also unknown, but what is sure she does like to bang on about these ruminant mammals rather a lot. God only knows why.
    Ivanka Trump
    It’s not just Johnny Depp that uspets the columnist, brand strategist and author. She also declared “Ivanka Trump’s new haircut should make us very afraid” in one of her especially strange features. Of the daughter of the 45th POTUS, Mahdawi ridiculously declared: “If her family cares about anything, it is image. Her political bob (pob) may be an attempt to get us to take her ambitions more seriously.” Off-the-scale nonsense, clearly.
    Violence is the only answer left
    In suggesting “violence is the only answer left” when attempting to “end racism,” surely this rambling ranter went too bloody far? Nobody rational would sanction attacks upon others surely and that this gibberish got published is beyond ridiculous.
    Sexist air conditioning
    Illustrating herself as nothing but a wack job, this woman – described online as a “gargantuan hypocrite and the stereotypical media hack whose sole objective is to peddle propaganda” – wrote about air conditioning in November 2019. In it, she argued that “the thermostat dictator is normally a man.” Whatever will she argue next? Will she blame Hitler for climate change or will she suggest that Cilla Black is responsible for a rise in divorce rates?
  • Moron of the Moment 2022 – ‘Angry Man’ Owen Jones

    Moron of the Moment 2022 – ‘Angry Man’ Owen Jones

    In attacking Waitrose customers, batshit bonkers rent-a-gob Owen Jones just yet again proves himself Britain’s ultimate irritating ‘angry man’

    It’s common knowledge that rotten ratbag and raging rent-a-gob Owen Jones hates many things, but it emerged yesterday that he especially loathes Waitrose and its customers.

     

    Aside from sharing his intense dislike for the shopping public, Jones took to Twitter to urge people to harass the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer whenever and wherever they see him. In a tweet, the reprehensible little squirt declared:

     

    “If you see Keir Starmer out and about, call him what he is – a conman and a liar – and film it. Enough of letting our politicians getting away with this grotesque level of dishonesty.”

     

    Going further after effectively urging attacks upon a democratically elected politician in a rambling rant shared with his 1 million nutty followers on Twitter, but not with the millions of others he’s no doubt spent hours blocking, Jones later stormed:

     

    “You Keir Starmer, are a liar, a conman and a joke. Keir Starmer is a professional political conman. I don’t use those words lightly.”

     

    “In order to become the leader of the Labour Party, he made a series of solemn commitments; pledges, he called them – which were radical domestic policies and party unity.”

     

    “Now, he didn’t just slightly break that mandate, or mostly break the mandate. He has brazenly, overtly delivered the exact opposite of what he said he would be as Labour leader.”

     

    “Now, I know most of the media have let him get away with this because they’re view is lying your way into crushing the left and conning your way into crushing them, that’s good politics.”

     

    “I know his army of supporters online. The most tedious, ridiculous Waitrose customers that you’ll ever come across. They think it’s all fine because they don’t believe in anything. They made their entire political identity Brexit and stopping Brexit for years and now support someone who advocates the hardest form of Brexit possible.”

     

    “Stockholm syndrome does not cover it for these people. The fact is, that is the truth.”

     

    “Keir Starmer is a conman. He is not someone anyone can trust. He is somebody who lies as a matter of course in order to secure power. “

     

    “He’s not fit to be leader of the Labour party and he’s not fit to be Prime Minister of the country and I don’t care how much that annoys the most tedious people on the Internet because it’s the truth.”

     

    This time, like or loathe Sir Keir Starmer, eternally ‘angry man’ Owen Jones has most definitely gone far too far. In an era when politicians including the late Sir David Amess MP and the late Jo Cox MP were stabbed to death, The Times’ Janice Turner rightly responded: “Has he lost his mind?” We’d counter: “He did that long ago” and we today urge this noxious nitwit to learn the art of silence; of course, however, he most definitely won’t.

     

    Responding to the reprehensible suggestion, winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2020 Janice Turner, a columnist and interviewer for ‘The Times,’ rightly told her 85,000 followers on Twitter: “Owen Jones is seriously encouraging his 1 million followers to harass a politician in the street, maybe outside his home, less than a year after David Amess was stabbed. Has he lost his mind?”
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    Another Twitter user, Caitlin Houlbrook, took up the mantle for shoppers and observed of the cat-loving, people-hating pillock: “Owen Jones labelling Starmer supporters as Waitrose shoppers. Can confirm, it’s Lidl or Aldi for me hun.”
    Taking umbrage at the deserved criticism he received after being accused of being “quite jealous” of Sir Keir and rightly told he “never achieved anything in life,” the ‘Chavs’ author chirped: “Better to be a failed writer than a professional conman!” Miaow.
    Suck cock for Socialism
    There’s lowbrow and tasteless, then there’s this particular specimen that will say or do anything to provoke and upset others. Frankly, ‘The Guardian’ can and could do a lot better than to employ a cretin who likes to sport T-shirts with captions like ‘Will Suck Dick For Socialism.’ They truly ought to fire this firebrand fanatic and do so pronto.
    Aside from his tirade against Waitrose customers yesterday, the squeaky voiced nitwit told his Twitter followers: “The crew now running the Labour Party are just genuinely horrible people.”
    The ‘Chavs’ author is incapable of engaging in rational debate. He blocks anyone who dares disagree with him and @M_Steeples and @SteepleTimes are delighted to be amongst the cancelled number. Next!
    Illustrating his obsession with attacking Sir Keir Starmer, Jones shared a 12:10-minute video on YouTube in May this year. In it, he called the Labour leader “a dishonest man” and called out his “rampant dishonesty.” He then begged for donations via Patreon to “help us take on the right-wing media.”
    Jones is regularly deservedly called out for attacking others. Has he ever got anything positive to say about anyone other than Jeremy Corbyn? It seems not.
  • Revenge – Meghan Markle v Tom Bower 2022

    Revenge – Meghan Markle v Tom Bower 2022

    Is Tom Bower’s latest tome ‘Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors’ actually going to be that revealing? Will it actually pull any punches or is it just a rehash of old news?

    Dubbed on the cover of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors as “Britain’s top investigative journalist,” Tom Bower is known for his punchy unauthorised autobiographies of the likes of rambunctious rotters including Mohamed Al-Fayed, Sir Richard Branson, Boris Johnson and Robert Maxwell.

     

    Sued for libel unsuccessfully for Lord (Conrad) Black prior to his being sent down for fraud yet cooperative and seemingly very friendly with Bernie Ecclestone, “Witchfinder General of contemporary biographers” Bower’s book has – in extracts shared thus far by The Times – focused on information such as that the Queen supposedly did not want the Duchess of Sussex at her husband’s Prince Philip’s funeral and that both Prince Harry and his wife have been repeatedly “hysterical.”

     

    Hardly new ‘news’ in the sense that these “bombshell stories” have previously been repeatedly discussed online previously, such information as that “Meghan Markle ‘threw a cup of tea in the air’ and was ‘abrasive’ during [a] royal tour” is now doing the round. Of this, without naming the victim of the char chucking, Bower opines:

     

    “Meghan was allegedly abrasive towards her four female staff and even towards the local British diplomats.”

     

    “According to one report, Meghan allegedly threw a cup of tea into the air. Her anger may have been partly fuelled by Harry.”

     

    “Every night he trawled social media, searching for snide comments on the internet. Every morning he and Meghan turned on their phones to surf the Internet.”

     

    Speaking of his book to Times Radio two days ago, Bower added:

     

    “H&M have set themselves up as judge and jury of the RF. Everything they do is to provoke and undermine and to challenge. My book is not gossip and speculation because it is sourced. You can’t imagine how much I didn’t print. The sources are identified, nearly 1000 sources are listed.”

     

    “I have worked really hard to make sure it everything is accurate. There is very little in this book which is gossip and where there is, it is headlined as gossip.”

     

    “I think the reader will come away with a vision of Harry and Meghan which is very different to the one they are accustomed to so far.”

     

    Today, as self-proclaimed “global humanitarian” Prince Harry is set to give another no doubt self-serving speech at the United Nations in New York to mark Nelson Mandela Day, his wife is said to be “dreading” publication of the book in three days. Coming after her attempt to stop her half-sister suing her for defamation was unsuccessful, one, however, is left wondering whether Bower’s really will turn the screw or whether it’ll be left to another biographer to finally expose the truth about ‘Meddling MeGain’ and her drip of a husband’s ridiculous antics.

     

    Tom Bower’s Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors will be released on 21st July 2022 in hardback form.

     

    In a poll this morning, editor Matthew Steeples asked if the book will be “a rip roaring romp of a read or a somewhat boring rehash of old news?”
    Times Radio turned to the subject as to whether the royal runaways are “self-destructive or successful?”
    Duke and Duchess of Sussex
    The Duchess of Sussex has been known to pull faces on occasions prior. She now may well find herself chucking more than teacups when she gets to read a book that is released on the 21st July 2022. One can imagine her temper may flare more given she won’t even be able to get her PR peddler Omid Scobie to help her spin this one.
    Lord and Lady Black
    Other subjects covered by Tom Bower previously have included the equally Marie Antoinette-like Barbara Amiel and her husband Conrad Black. Lord and Lady Black tried to stop the author. They, like ‘MeGain,’ failed.
    Sir Richard Branson grabbing
    Equally, Sir Richard Branson didn’t exactly come off brilliantly as a result of being featured in a book by Bower.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell – Master Manipulator

    Ghislaine Maxwell – Master Manipulator

    Apple podcast featuring Matthew Steeples being interviewed by the Irish ‘Sunday World’s’ Nicola Tallant on her ‘Crime World’ channel about whether Ghislaine Maxwell was an innocent servant or a master manipulator goes live

    Earlier this week, after first meeting at CrimeCon UK in London in June 2022, The Steeple Times’ Matthew Steeples was invited onto the award-winning investigative journalist Nicola Tallant’s ‘Crime World’ podcast to discuss whether Ghislaine Maxwell should be considered as “Jeffrey Epstein’s innocent servant” or the reverse, his “master manipulator.”

     

    In a 37-minute interview with Tallant – who has been deservedly lauded for her investigations into Irish crimes for the Sunday World and Irish Daily Mirror – Steeples told of “his own views on Maxwell and how he believes she was the one who wore the trousers in the relationship with Epstein. We talk hidden cameras, a secret address book and a money trail right into the heart of their twisted world.”

     

    Commenting afterwards, Steeples remarked: “Nicola is clearly a lady with an ability to get to the heart of a story and I enjoyed chatting with her about how Ghislaine Maxwell was, in my humble opinion, actually the master in the relationship. She was, I would say, the controller and connector and Jeffrey Epstein was her money funnel.”

     

    “She was certainly a woman abused by her own father, but that doesn’t mean she should have gone on to abuse others and help others abuse others. As many comment on Twitter, she has been convicted of sex trafficking women but nobody has joined her yet who received those victims in being prosecuted. It is time that justice was served on her powerful associates – powerful associates who featured in the address book that was hers and hers long before she met the very man she now vilifies.”

     

    To listen to the ‘Crime World’ podcast on Apple, click here.

     

    Follow Nicola Tallant on Twitter at @CrimeNicola.

     

    Pictured top – Convicted sex offender and mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell, renowned journalist Nicola Tallant and Matthew Steeples.

     

    Podcast
    Nicola Tallant has produced over 125 episodes of her ‘Crime World’ podcast series in conjunction with producer Ian Maleney.
    Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell
    On the show, which is the 126th edition of Tallant’s ‘Crime World’ series, Matthew Steeples discusses the power play between the croaked taxi driver turned conman turned paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the incarcerated mucky madam sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. He suggests the common belief that the former was in charge to be a misplaced conception and that the latter was the especially wicked power mistress. It was, after all, the contacts in her address book to whom their victims were supplied.
    Robert Maxwell
    Prior to moving to New York – supposedly penniless – after the death of her pension pot plundering father, ‘The Bouncing Czech’s’ favourite child considered him the most important man in her life. Once settled there, quite likely with the help of the Ponzi scheming paedophile Epstein, she turned him into a money funnel to draw out the £500 million stolen from the Mirror’s retired workers.
    House manual
    The house manual of Epstein’s Palm Beach residence clearly was written with the input of the clearly socially more adept Ghislaine Maxwell than the rougher Jeffrey Epstein. It is of the style of someone who grew up with privileges rather than someone from the wrong side of the tracks, but it also indicates how very controlling the former truly can be in her demands.
    Ghislaine Maxwell
    Here is an arrogant and entitled woman who used to have access to it all – be it power, parties, privileges, royalty, mansions, islands and yachts. She has now quite deservedly exchanged this for 20 years in a prison cell and also faces further legal suits and eternal shame and disgrace.
    116 East 65th Street, New York Sheldon Barr
    Earlier this month – just after her former home at 116 East 65th Street, New York was sold for £13.3 million ($16 million, €15.7 million or درهم58.8 million) by real estate investor Frederick Rudd and his wife Kim Greenberg on 20th May – it was revealed that the convicted mucky madam sex offender faces further woes relating to that property after an art dealer, Sheldon Barr (pictured), has filed a lawsuit against her claiming he suffered “life changing injuries” outside the property caused by her lack of maintenance in 2015. Maxwell sold the 7,000 square foot Lenox Hill townhouse for £12.5 million ($15 million, €14.7 million or درهم55.1 million) in 2015.
    TedTalk
    When Maxwell gave a speech about the oceans to TedX in Charlottesville, she was accompanied by the caption: “The ocean, the biggest threat.” It turns out that instead she was the biggest threat to young people and a liar and deceiver.
  • Bankrupt BJ – Shame On PM For Taking PJs

    Bankrupt BJ – Shame On PM For Taking PJs

    It is an outrage that BJ enjoyer Boris Johnson flew from Cornwall to London in a government private jet after a holiday with his family at a time when there are now more food banks than McDonald’s outlets in bankrupt Britain

    Blithering buffoon Boris Johnson – whose initials now seem rather apt given his liking for Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky style sexual antics with his latest baby mama in his Downing Street offices – has again disgraced himself by using a government private jet to fly home from a weekend with his puppet mistress and sprogs in Cornwall.

     

    At a time when there are outrageously now more food banks than McDonald’s outlets in Britain and consumers’ energy bills are rocketing through the roof, that a publicly funded public servant is prepared to waste public resources in such a decadent manner when he could quite easily have taken the train is just beyond the pale.

     

    Called out quite rightly by The Guardian’s deputy political editor Rowena Mason as “staggering hypocrisy,” Johnson’s use of ‘PJs’ was slammed further by the Sunday Mirror’s Whitehall correspondent Mikey Smith. Of this  using government aircraft for “a seaside jaunt” with his family, Smith reported that Labour MP Emily Thornberry (AKA Lady Nugee), for once, rightly added:

     

    “While the rest of Britain is struggling to pay the bills, Boris Johnson keeps living the high life at public expense.”

     

    “Once again, he’s been caught treating the government’s official plane as his personal taxi service, regardless of what it costs the environment or the taxpayer.”

     

    “It’s the act of a man drunk on power, who needs to be told he’s had enough.”

     

    Clearly, just like the coffin dodger apologist for Vladimir Putin, Bernie Ecclestone, here we have a leader of once-great Britain who has been on the Kool Aid. It is now finally time for the off his not-so-merry rocker worst Prime Minister of Britain to finally do the decent thing. It is time for this conman, crook and condescending creep to just get on a PJ for yet another BJ with his hideous wife and disappear off into the sunset Jeffrey Epstein style. It is time for Britain to rid itself of both Boris Johnson and the ‘beergate’ bore Sir Keir Starmer also.

     

    Pictured top – The worst Prime Minister in British history with his deviant and clearly deranged £800 a roll wallpaper loving deviant and clearly deranged wife.

     

    Ghislaine Maxwell Carrie Johnson Oceana
    Carrie Johnson – then Carrie Symonds – previously worked for the ‘charity’ Oceana. It had close links to the now quite rightly incarcerated sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. Though both the Prime Minister’s puppet mistress and the mucky madam nonce like the oceans, their links to private jets and gin palaces are as murky as their personally profiteering personas.
    Liz Truss private jet
    Previously, in January, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was slammed after “splashing at least £500,000 of taxpayers’ money on a private plane to Australia. She was accused of “exuding shocking privilege by riding an outrageous source of carbon emissions.” Her journey on the Airbus A321 – which would have cost just £7,700 for an equivalent business class ticket – was catalogued by a taxpayer-funded PR photographer.
    Royal Yacht Britannia replacement
    Of plans for an equally overtly extravagant state funded new royal yacht in May last year, Dame Esther Rantzen rightly observed: “This is to me a crazy idea at a time when our economy has been obviously dealt something of a death blow by COVID, when we have no plans for social care, when food banks are thriving. Do we really think that the taxpayer, let alone the royal family, want £200 million spent on a royal yacht? I think it’s an example of a newspaper starting a campaign which is so out of touch. However, perhaps, I have the solution: Sir Philip Green, do you remember him? He has a knighthood – which some people have questioned. He lives in Monaco, where there’s plenty of other people with yachts. Why doesn’t he donate his boat to the royal family? If he’s got monograms with the words ‘Philip’ on it, that would be suitable for those who feel that the yacht should be named after Philip, Duke of Edinburgh… Prince Philip, you could just add a few, a few, you know…” Shame on the Prime Minister for even coming up with such a Marie Antoinette like idea.
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  • Markle V Markle 2022 – Samantha Markle Wants £61k+ From Sister

    Markle V Markle 2022 – Samantha Markle Wants £61k+ From Sister

    As it looks set to go to jury trial, the defamation case of Samantha Markle against her sibling the Duchess of Sussex in Markle v Markle looks set to make the ‘Wagatha Christie’ case look like a walk in the park

    The public have spent the first part of this year lapping up the ‘Wagatha Christie’ and Johnny Depp v Amber Heard defamation cases, but if it goes to plan Samantha M. Markle v Meghan Markle could become the truly most addictive legal ‘must watch’ of 2022.

     

    Pitching the prospect of the Queen’s grandson’s wife, the Duchess of Sussex, appearing against her very own half-sister in a Tampa, Florida courtroom as a drama most definitely doesn’t require anything other than gleeful gloating and if it does occur, it will, quite frankly, be the ultimate sh*tshow.

     

    Like watching a car crash, the Twitterati will no doubt be addicted. They will love the fact that the “private citizen” plaintiff, Mrs Samantha Markle, wants “in excess of £61,000 ($75,000 €71,000 or درهم275,000) exclusive of interests, costs and attorney’s fees” from her estranged ‘private when it suits’ sibling and that Prince Harry’s wife is being called out for “fake quotes against her sister.” That the pugnacious PR peddler Omid Scobie’s Finding Freedom is also being slammed as full of “false information” will be a veritable bonus.

     

    Of that trashy tittle-tattling tome, the elder sister declares in her latest amended complaint submitted earlier this month:

     

    “The book was used by the Duchess to affirm the false narrative that she portrayed to the Royal Family, that she supposedly lived a rags to riches storybook life. A life that took her from a humble beginning like that of Cinderella, to the wife of a Prince, a Duchess. She did not hesitate to strike back at what she mistakenly believed to be actions of Mrs. Markle, her older sister, against her.”

     

    “She needed to distance herself from Mrs. Markle and to blame any and all issues on her. In the book Finding Freedom, in which the Duchess provided the information through her communications secretary, there is an entire chapter 12, starting on Page 310 entitled A Problem Like Samantha which defamed Mrs. Markle and falsely describes her ‘ploys’ to gain notoriety and money from her relation to the Duchess.”

     

    “It stated as fact: ‘The trouble began with Samantha Markle. Meghan’s romance with Harry had hardly been public a full 24 hours when her half-sister sensed an opportunity. Never mind that she hadn’t seen her estranged half-sister in more than a decade. Samantha – who had changed her name from Yvonne and died her hair a fresh shade of blond…’”

     

    “The false and defamatory statements which follow not only caused harm to Mrs. Markle financially in her professional occupation as a mental health counselor, but also subjected her to incomprehensible amounts of public scrutiny causing her mental health and well-being to deteriorate.”

     

    Going further, the plaintiff calls out other supposed lies and falsehoods and claims her health and reputation have suffered immensely. She adds that the Duchess of Sussex “instilled anger in her fan base against [her]” and that this “caused substantial, irreparable prejudice, injury and harm.” She suggests that she “receives hateful emails and messages on a regular basis, is subjected to ongoing negative media portrayals, news articles, nasty negative press, and her reputation has been so damaged that she has been unable to work as a mental health counselor.”

     

    Aside from having had to “seek and obtain an ‘Injunction for Protection Against Stalking’ in Polk County, Florida against one of Defendant’s zealous fans,” here is a woman who claims to suffer “emotionally from the worldwide hatred, contempt, and ridicule that she is forced to endure” and now she’s quite rightly fighting back.

     

    If the Duchess of Sussex and her decided drip of a husband had any sense, they’d now do one thing: They’d man-up and make amends with both their families and bring them into the fold. That, however, would be too sensible, so, of course, they bloody well won’t.

     

    Pictured top – In times past, the ever so conveniently forgetful former actress was happy to pose for pictures with her the sister she is now at war with both in the courts and via the media.

     

    The ever so conveniently forgetful former actress – a woman who clearly has trouble remembering how many times and when she actually got married – was happy to not only pose for pictures with her papa and to take his money to pay for her education also.
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    The ambitious and audacious wife of Prince Harry would, however, like pictures such as this – and others far worse – erased from the Internet.
    The Duchess of Sussex truly morphed into the ‘Modern Day Mrs Simpson’ for her interview with her and Sarah, the Duchess of York’s crony Oprah Winfrey in March last year.
    A truly dysfunctional family – Meghan, Tyler, Thomas Sr, Thomas Jnr and Samantha in times happier.
    In choosing to be the chief tin banger for the ‘Sussex Squad,’ Scobie will go down in history only for one thing: Being on the wrong side of history. The public have seen through him and they’ve seen through the rotten royals who have done nothing but damage to the monarch, her first born son and Prince Harry’s elder sibling. Shame on him.
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    This is going to be a case that could will send shockwaves on both sides of the pond. It will be nothing but a sh*tshow between a woman clearly incapable of understanding the art of diplomacy and a half-sister she’s most definitely thrown under the bus. Whatever the outcome, that this has even reached this stage just proves that the Duchess of Sussex is nothing but a selfish sleazebag who is very, very, very badly advised.
  • A Pirate Prospers – Victory for Johnny Depp

    A Pirate Prospers – Victory for Johnny Depp

    ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star Johnny Depp’s victory was deserved; it is now time for Amber Heard to be dragged back to Britain to face perjury charges

    Johnny Deep v Amber Heard (Round Two) was always going to be car crash viewing. Like Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney though with a bit of added crack and cocaine, this was a defamation case that frankly should not have been heard but also one that illustrated that self-serving vanity generally leads to self-deserved destruction.

     

    As was seen when Vardy was most definitely kicked into touch in the witness box, the crocodile tears of Heard will now go down in history as representative only of someone of warped mind and wicked motive. Here was a woman whose lies have come back to haunt her and here is someone whose name will now forever be mud.

     

    Supported by amongst others Javier Bardem, Kate Moss, Winona Ryder and Sia, Depp – admittedly a man with flaws that must be acknowledged – was not only the victor in the courtroom.  He won legions of fans on social media and now though The Guardian’s Andrew Pulver suggested that the careers prospects of both will continue to suffer, I’d argue it’ll be quite to the contrary for Depp.

     

    Currently enjoying life to the full on a tour of Britain with guitarist Jeff Beck and singer Sam Fender and clearly making the most of life, the Pirates of the Caribbean star is now £6.66 million ($8.35 million, €7.81 million or درهم30.67 million) richer and deservedly headed to a pub in Newcastle to neck a pint or ten last night.

     

    ‘Anxious Amber,’ meanwhile, may now feel “disappointment,” but in falsely claiming this verdict “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.” Instead of accepting the decision and moving on, she ludicrously whinged:

     

    “I believe Johnny’s attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.”

     

    “I’m sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American – to speak freely and openly.”

     

    Ending with a far more dignified statement, Depp simply concluded:

     

    “The best is yet to come and a new chapter has finally begun.”

     

    “Veritas numquam perit.”

     

    “Truth never perishes.”

     

    It is now time for Amber Heard to be dragged back to Britain and charged with perjury for the clear lies she told at the Royal Courts of Justice; it is now time also to remember that Johnny Depp – who showed his positivity and unbeat personality in saying: “Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all – is a talented man who deserves to once again be left to focus on treading the boards.

     

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    On Twitter, Nick Adams joined the vast majority in rightly concluded that this was a victory “for all men who have been wrongfully accused of sexual assault.”
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    Others amended the statement of the haranguer Heard and called her out for what she genuinely, truly, most definitely is – an out and out liar.
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    Mocking the likely next chapter for the mendacious minx, one website suggested this decidedly deviant’s net worth now to be -$10 million. Her career deservedly in tatters, her reputation in ruins and her future prospects panned, here is someone who should have long ago learnt the art of silence. Instead, here was an attention seeker with more front than Brighton who finally got what she deserved. It is time for this wicked woman to now disappear.
  • Markle v Markle – £60,000 Defamation Demand Against Duchess of Sussex

    Markle v Markle – £60,000 Defamation Demand Against Duchess of Sussex

    As estranged half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex demands £60,000 from her for defamation, we remind the ‘Modern Day Mrs Simpson’ that she’d do well to heal her familial rifts in private

    This morning, the Mirror’s Patrick Hill revealed the “latest twist in a bitter legal row between siblings Meghan [the Duchess of Sussex], 40, and Samantha [Markle], 57” has come “days after Meghan filed a 27-page court bid in Tampa, Florida, to dismiss a defamation case brought by Samantha, who wants £60,000 damages.”

     

    Jamie Alan Sasson, a lawyer representing Samantha Markle, told the paper:

     

    “Our intention is to take this case to a jury trial. I feel confident we’ll get past the motion to dismiss. We expect to start taking depositions in this case within the next six months.”

     

    Responding previously on 13th May, the Duchess of Sussex’s lawyer countered:

     

    “This is a defamation case without any merit.”

     

    Referring to PR peddler Omid Scobie’s tawdry tome, they went further and added:

     

    “The authors of Finding Freedom made the statements, and there are no allegations – nor could there be – that Meghan wrote that book or otherwise controlled its composition and editing.”

     

    Frankly, this latest episode reflects very badly on drippy Prince Harry’s American wife. If she had an ounce of sense, instead of continuing this row, this audacious actress would organise a meeting with her estranged father and siblings and put a stop to this charade for once and for all. Instead, by continuing this toxic familial war, all the duchess does is add fuel to the fire and simply shows herself to be what one Twitter user accurately termed a “self-centred, self-serving attention whore.”

     

    Pictured top – The snarling and selfish Duchess of Sussex (right) faces a demand for £60,000 for allegedly defaming her sibling Samantha (left).

     

    This morning we asked the nigh on 13,000 followers of the @SteepleTimes account on Twitter: “Which of these mouthy minxes would you most like to see disappear into obscurity? Which one would you most like to no longer get news coverage?” Quite predictably, thus far with 22 hours to go, the vast majority of respondents have plumped for the Duchess of Sussex with Katie Price in second place, Rebekah  Vardy in third and Amber Heard in fourth.
    The Duchess of Sussex is being “sued as ‘Meghan Markle’” in the case. It has been brought by her sister in the United States District Court Middle District of Florida Tampa Division.
    Elsewhere, another court battle involving Prince Charles’ second son’s wife being called “the dreaded Meghan” is brewing away. It involves the academic Dr Anne Anderson and the Arts Society.
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    In times past, the ever so conveniently forgetful former actress was happy to pose for pictures with her the sister she is now at war with both in the courts and via the media.
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    Equally, the ever so conveniently forgetful former actress – a woman who clearly has trouble remembering how many times and when she got married – was happy to not only pose for pictures with her papa and to take his money to pay for her education also.
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    The ambitious and audacious wife of Prince Harry would, however, like pictures such as this – and others far worse – erased from the Internet.
    Elsewhere this week on ‘Palace Confidential,’ former senior palace aide Dickie Arbiter remarked of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex deciding to do another television series: “It smacks of desperation. It’s a bit rich, two people who left the UK, walked out of the Royal Family, because they wanted privacy, they’ve done nothing else but put themselves up front and a week doesn’t go by when there isn’t some sort of statement coming out of their PR people.”