North Korea takes ceremonial decoration to another level

Those who deserve them get the odd decoration or two. Sometimes those that don’t get them too. Fred got shredded of his ‘K’ yet a certain person got a CBE for “services to children and families” despite uproar following a series of articles in the Daily Telegraph and elsewhere about the finances of the very charity they ran.

 

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Picture of the Week – Mistress May

Theresa May rebranded in Hackney Wick; it might put you off your lunch A group named ‘Shit London’ on Facebook has over 68,000 members and regularly features images of the sublime and the ridiculous taken in Britain’s capital. This week, one, in particular, shared there caught our eye. An image, taken by an […]

The world's most decorated?
The world’s most decorated?
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Our picture of the week, kindly supplied by one of our favourite readers the restaurateur Rex Leyland, features military personnel in North Korea and their decorations. There’s not much more to say but frankly, have you ever seen anything so ludicrous?