Archive for October, 2008

Becks signs for Milan in search for more caps

David Beckham has signed a two month loan deal with top Italian club AC Milan as he continues his quest to become England’s most-capped outfield player ahead of legendary World Cup captain Bobby Moore on 108 (Becks is currently on 107).

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Sienna Miller takes on the paparazzi

Well good luck to her but this is a bit like trying to herd cats.

Actress Sienna Miller is suing Darryn Lyons from Big Pictures (UK), accusing him of “physical and verbal intimidation and abuse”, which sounds a bit more than “ere …

Will Bill and Al deliver for Obama?

Democrats Barack Obama and Bill Clinton appeared on a platform for the first time yesterday in Orlando, the killer punch or just too triumphalist?

Labour supporters in Britain still wince over Neil Kinnock’s ‘coronation’ rally in Sheffield shortly before the 1992 general …

WAGS before wicket, Stanford’s cricket match is in the balance

Sir Allen Stanford’s 20/20 cricket match between England and his private team of West Indian players is in the balance as the players seethe over him cuddling their wives and girlfriends and various big guns, like former England cricket supremo Sir …

What a waste of taxpayers’ money (also known as the BBC)

There is no organisation on earth that is more committed to layers of management, form-filling and endless away days about how to “deliver value” from the preceding than the BBC.

Yet every time it has a crisis it loses someone important; …

Brown searches for a Whitehall warrior

PM Gordon Brown is looking for someone to take over from Stephen Carter (booted upstairs to the Lords) as his chief PR man to take on the Tories’ Andy Coulson.

Names in the frame so far include Google’s UK head of communications …

Blondes are more fun shock

Mr Blatherskite is thinking of launching a competition for the most successful (in terms of media gained) statement of the bleedin’ obvious.

Hairdresser Andrew Collinge has put in an early bid with his firm’s survey of 3000 men who decided that …

Serge is on the line to Carla Bruni

Serge Poniatowski (Blatherskite’s chief celebrity interviewer): ‘Allo Carla, nice to hear from you

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: It’s been a long time Serge, I thought you didn’t like me any more

Serge: Not at all Carla, it’s just that I’d been listening to your …

‘Arry’s bandwagon rolls on

You can’t keep that man Harry Redknapp out of the headlines and last night, in the game of the season so far, the previously woefully underperforming Tottenham Hotspur came back with two goals in the last two minutes of added …

Dr Who rides to the BBC’s rescue

By quitting?

In a way yes because actor David Tennant’s decision to quit the show after this year’s Christmas special and four more ’specials’ next year is a salutary reminder of one thing the BBC does very well - good old family …

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