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Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here...

Here's an interesting headline from Rolling Stone which I spotted the other day. Nothing so weird about that one, you'll probably b...

Is it just me who has trouble parsing this headline I saw the other day? OK, so let's start at the beginning: "I'm a Wimbledon ...

My views on the monarchy as an institution are fairly well-known , and as much as I am a terrible arsehole in a general sense I do recognise...

Generally I like the Headline Of The Day candidates to be freshly-minted and just plucked at the moment of perfect ripeness from whichever ...

Picture the scene: YOU, a hardworking professional helicopter pilot for hire, get the call to deliver a BOAT to a HOSPITAL, pronto. But WHY ...

Just as with the William Shatner one from a month or so ago, today's headline pretty much picks itself (with the caveat that I haven...

Not much competition for this title today: it pretty much has to be this one. It's unclear from the article whether Shatner just e...

From Twitter , and not a crash blossom for once, this is just a bit....well, see for yourself: It definitely has a bit of a Day Today...

I spotted this on Twitter earlier today: This turns out to be from 2014, but I imagine the principal protagonist (who is from Taipei...

Here's one for the file of What Does Any Of This Even Mean headline-parsing challenges : In order to have any chance of understa...

I can't quite remember what got me into watching rock-climbing videos on YouTube - I suspect I might have followed a few links after inv...

I know there's much speculation about the composition of the squad for the upcoming Ashes series in Australia, and England have a few he...

Here's another example (from the Daily Mail ) of a phenomenon you might call "subject slippage" or something similar - a bit ...

Attempt, if you will, to parse this gem from the BBC News website today: Corpse sex kill threat man gets 45 years . So who was making the ...

The day in question being yesterday, actually, but I'm a busy man and I can't always leap into blogging action at the drop of a dang...

A bit of unfortunate slapdash photo-captioning in this match summary of France's slightly unexpected 10-9 win over Ireland in the first...

Just as with my unseemly (for a fortysomething father-of-two, anyway) chortling over the contents of children's books here , the amuseme...

This (although it's from the BBC website ) is one of those tabloid-esque pack-as-many-nouns-in-a-row-as-you-can-and-see-if-it-still-make...

Just a bit of textbook blithering tabloid innumeracy for you - today's Daily Mail contains this headline: That image is from the...