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The stench of homophobia hanging around this story is vile.
All today's newspaper front pages (except The Star that ran something about Klingons travelling to Mars?) decided this is the biggest thing going on in the cuntry today. Meanwhile, Bank of England tells us that 1 million households will be paying an additional £500 a month on their mortgages and that it's ok because the banks will be able to deal with all the defaults on payments.
This cuntry has lost the plot!
What's this about Klingons??
Not sure if I can embed images in a post so I'll just link to the page:
https://www.frontpages.com/daily-star/
Wow, even for the Star that is pretty moronic. They must assume their readers are idiots, although it may be based more on in-depth marketing research.
The Star has become what the Daily Sport used to be...
Full of shit.
Not that the other rags are much better. Even the Times has gone to shit since Murdoch bought it.
At least the Daily Sport was open that they were just making it up -the Star looks like some kind of AI news filter for the concussed.
Seems to now occupy the place that The Daily Sport once held. It's a weird example of the state of modern UK.
You what? Was there a new twist I missed?
The Sun... that virtuous newspaper that used to pay 16 year old girls to leave school so they could pose naked for Page 3... made it clear this was a male "star" and a boy. It's a re-run of the Phillip Scofield nonsense. This wouldn't be front page of all the papers and radio stations if it was an older man and a teenage young woman. Sure, they'll be some coverage but not as much as this homophobic stuff
Oh I totally missed that. I thought the story was that he paid a girl for explicit photos. Not a boy.
@tenebrisnox @Flax_vert The plot is by groups including the newspaper proprietors.
(Other plots are also available)