“Racist” cake leaves a bad taste
Controversy over an art event held at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet featuring a cake shaped like a black woman leads to calls for Sweden’s culture minister to resign
News of the Screwed
The closing of the News of the World looks less like a cleansing of the Augean stables than it does a smokescreen for a cost-cutting exercise
Mail in Nazi slur on Clegg
The Daily Mail takes the press coverage of the 2010 General Election away from the politics and into the mire of personal attacks
Murdoch takes pay-per-view from football to websites
For the first time, a News Corporation newspaper website puts up a paywall
It’s The Sun wot lost it for Gordon…?
An examination of The Sun’s decision to switch political sides – again
Swindon’s speed cameras – politics over policing
Swindon’s fixed speed cameras are turned off – to a mixed reception
The ultimate freedom of choice
The assisted suicide of Sir Edward and Lady Downes provoked a good deal of press comment and controversy
Situation vacant – must have own broom
The owners of the Wookey Hole Caves tourist attraction are advertising for a part-time witch!
Poor and want to start a business?
Sorry, you’re staying on benefits
Attempts to extend a Bangladeshi micro-credit scheme to Glasgow’s poor risk falling foul of benefit rules
Mind that MOT…
4.7m British motorists have no MOT, and thus no car insurance
Is Ramsay “bag” to rights this time?
The Mail and the Sun blast Gordon Ramsay’s pre-prepped meals
Scottish Sunday Express exposes sick filth
The Scottish Sunday Express publishes a sensationalist, privacy-invading article against Dunblane survivors
Former KGB officer takes over Tory tabloid
A Rothermere newspaper, the Evening Standard, has been taken over by Russian oligarch Aleksandr Lebedev
Parity – time to ditch the pound?
As a Somerset village accepts euro cash payments, is the UK any closer to joining the eurozone?
Pratchett petition for Alzheimer’s research
Author Terry Pratchett petitions for more government funding for Alzheimer’s research