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Although it didn’t cause much of a ripple in [...]

“Her final humiliation came at the hands of her husband”
- Iain Dale, discussing Jacqui Smith’s decision to quit as Home Secretary (full post HERE)

“They were completely inappropriate for somebody who is a teacher. They were absolutely not pornographic but do you want to see your teacher in that way?”
- Ben Slade, head teacher of Manor Community College in Cambridge, who clearly doesn’t understand hormonal teenagers very well as a PE teacher at his school faces disciplinary action after [...]

“It’s believed that two adult features went on the bill by mistake”
- how sources described the fact that in Jacqui’s Smith Commons expenses for last June, claims were submitted for two adult films that were ordered at home by her husband while she was away.  Jacqui Smith has apologised, saying in a statement that the claim had been [...]

“I want to send a message to all those who mismanaged our savings”
- the message shouted by Laura Perego, an Italian porn actress, as she stripped off in the Milan stock exchange yesterday in a protest at financiers.  She walked into the stock market in a black coat, which she took off to reveal her [...]

“Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses, and we feel we deserve the same consideration.”
- porn baron Larry Flynt, who is seeking a $5 billion bailout from Washington to rejuvenate the industry, which he says is suffering because of the economic downturn.  He has asked the 111th Congress, which convened [...]

Dear Jack Straw,
At first, I thought Andy Burnham’s desire to control everything and everyone on the Internet only managed to squeak through onto the front pages because there was no other news around.  Now I’m not so sure.  All of Labour’s recent covert activities, it seems, are coming to light over the Christmas period and [...]