SNEWSLEYPIES

Yeah, that got a double-take out of me too. Hell, "Lord Pickles" alone is quite the concept to be reminded of in itself.

What is happening?

Already answered your own question there chum:

have the Tories just given up

...they're literally just sitting and running down the clock at this point.

Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.

Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.

No "it was a different time" excuses wash yet.

Oh!

Vielen dank - jetzt fühle ich blöd :D

Ja, ich verstehe so viel (memes are the same all over the world ;D ) - aber habe ich noch keine Ahnung was "ich_iel" bedeutet :)

Ah, ich höffte daß diese Frage über die weiter Meinung von "ich_iel" Posten war...

(mein Scheißdeutsch entschuldigen, bitte :D )

Okay, that's fair, they do have another scandal to weather (contrived though it appears). Sorry, I thought I read a slight undertone of "filthy BBC got anuvver nonce innit" :)

I've still got no idea who people think it is.

Nor do I care to, because it ain't remotely sodding important.

Seems like the BBC may have another one on their hands.

Another... what, exactly? Rude, unpleasant person who happens to be either gay or bi? (I think I get this message from the reporting, but I'm not certain that I've specifically seen the gender of the original "young person" mentioned now that I think about it)

This is such an obviously confected story to fling shit at the BBC. It disappoints me that so many otherwise articulate and sensible people seem to be swallowing it hook line and sinker.

on par with Private Eye

...dear god man. I mean, it's great at what it does, but comparable to the Eye? No. Just... no XD

We have been contacted by George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ lawyers

This, though, may as well be a straight-up admission of truth.

I mean, let's be real - it's totally inconsequential. We've known for years who he is and how he fills his days waiting for his inheritance, and more importantly, none of this stuff, even if true, will actually affect him in any meaningful way.

But I can't claim for a second that I'm not chuckling at his misfortune today.