Bravely Reporting From Every Angle

The BBC embraces recycling reports, May 2, 2008:

Note especially the photo. Apparently she’s just all grown up now and merely behaving exactly the same way she had when she had strikingly similarly “graced” an entirely different story in 2006, on how “Britain’s teenagers are among the most badly behaved in Europe“?

If not, hopefully she’s getting residuals.

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Considering the British girls behaving badly/being drunk/sleeping with anything/eating anything, journalist overkill of late, Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times displays the British sense of humo(u)r:

…I find it hard to believe that British girls are more grotesquely obese than, say, their Austrian counterparts. I saw a gaggle of Austrian girls making their way to school recently and thought at first that it was a queue for auditions for the Viennese stage version of Babe. It may be the case that British girls are on average fatter but that the statistics are skewed by the huge number of very thin Austrian girls locked away in cellars…

An observation of the type which may explain why Mr Liddle no longer works for the BBC.

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Obviously unrelatedly, elsewhere the same Sunday Times profiles the latest British girl celeb to be turned away from the big time, owing to her obesity. More prominently, on the front page of its print edition, just next to the likely award-winning coverage of the royal who will never be king having married a non-British (of course!) woman who, if she had been a member of another major faith and had had to have renounced that faith in order to marry him, one suspects that when word spread there would have been a degree of mild displeasure displayed in certain locales around the world, the Sunday Times also reports:

An MI5 officer has been forced to resign after admitting that his wife was a prostitute who took part in a notorious “Nazi-style orgy” with Max Mosley, the Formula One racing chief…

…Mosley, who is 68 and has been married since 1960, is one of the most powerful men in world sport. His father was a hate figure who led the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. His mother was the society beauty Diana Mitford, a great admirer of Adolf Hitler…

…The F1 boss’s five-hour sex session with the five call girls took place in an underground “torture chamber” in Chelsea, west London. The Oxford-educated former barrister is alleged to have re-enacted a concentration camp scene in which he played the role of both guard and inmate.

The session is alleged to have involved prostitutes dressed as German officers and camp inmates. It was secretly caught on video by one of the call girls, who used the name Mistress Abi. Sources said it was Abi’s husband who worked for MI5 and that she sold the story to the News of the World newspaper for an undisclosed sum. According to the paper, Mistress Abi wore a Luftwaffe uniform…

The Sunday Times tells us also that “Hello” magazine is rumored to have also been given exclusive access. No, no, not to that “Nazi-style orgy”, but to that royal wedding. (Apologies for the cut and paste problem there.) Yes, thus does media coverage of “the European life” continue . . .