Porkie Pies

Much has been made of David Cameron’s decision to stand down from Parliament. Is he too lazy to help his constituents? Too greedy to turn down lucrative speaking gigs? To proud to serve under another PM? Or could it possibly be that Cameron is finally looking to take revenge for that pigfucking stuff?

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All Mapped Out

It may not have set the charts alight when it was first released in 2003, but it’s entirely possible that Maps by New York art-punk outfit Yeah Yeah Yeahs has been the single most influential song of the 21st century so far. How? Let’s look…

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The Perils of Celebrity Murder Fiction

After helping get Popbitch off the ground Neil Stevenson went off to edit the legendary style magazine, The Face. When things didn’t quite go to plan there he decided to write a novel about it. Twelve years later, he realised that hadn’t gone to plan either. So he wrote an article about how not to write a novel instead.

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A Fresh Set Of Eyes

There’s all sorts of services available to help you date in the modern age, but if you’re a celebrity there’s only one effective way to sort out your matchmaking. Get the people who have been tailing you for years – and hire them for yourself.

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The Caged Bird

Prison may cost you your freedom, prison may cost you your dignity, but prison needn’t cost you your Twitter followers. It seems you can be as despicable as you like IRL, it doesn’t seem to harm your #numbers. Here’s how some of the worst offenders are faring…

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The Disrapture

Tech has been toying with media for many years now, but Peter Thiel’s recent multi-million dollar attack on Gawker is the clearest sign yet that Silicon Valley might be ready to unleash a cataclysmic assault on the fourth estate. Is Thiel the final horseman? And, if so, who rode in before him?

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Helping Hands

Another question you may have asked yourself in the course of this whole celebrity injunction is: “How on earth does one go about setting up an olive oil paddling pool sex party?” If you’ve been curious about the logistics of putting it all together and then pulling it all down, we asked the industry people who would know…

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Between The Spreadsheets

Perhaps you heard the details of PJS’s trysts – in particular that extremely exotic-sounding olive oil/paddling pool ‘wrestling experience’ – and thought “Ooh, yeah. I could be up for that.” How much would a thing like that set you back exactly? What are the costs involved? We crunched the numbers for you…

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Primary Urges

Politics, in general, is a deeply unsexy business. Yet it seems our appetite for porn parodies is so great that people are even willing to script, shoot and sell political filth of all stripes. With the presidential primaries now in full thrust, who’s pulling ahead in the smut stakes?

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Latent Registration

Modern psychologists don’t put a great deal of stock in Sigmund Freud’s five-stage theory of psychosexual development anymore. It’s widely considered to be ‘pop-psychology’. So what happens when you apply it to actual pop? Can Freudian analysis explain Kanye West’s anal fixation? You bet your bottom dollar…

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