The UK Independence Party (UKIP) get a bad rap in the media for essentially being the BNP, but with members who look less like fascist Millwall fans and more like used car salesmen. But are they really all that extreme? Aren't they just the old boys who would otherwise be Tory backbenchers if it...
Last Friday, while you were out spilling fluids and clattering haphazardly around dark rooms, Moody's ratings agency downgraded the UK’s cherished credit rating from a once-heralded AAA to a not full-blown scrub but still slightly shittier AA1. Basically, this means we’re now slightly less trustworthy in a financial sense than we were this time...
What if Quentin Tarantino had taken the bait and discussed the link between movie and real life violence in Django Unchained, rather than shutting Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s butt down? In the wake of the Newtown massacre, a wrong-footed remark on violence is akin to lowering the spring of a thunder drum toward a squawking nest...
If you're reading this on Wednesday morning, David Cameron is about to set out his views on how we should deal with the EU, raising the prospect of a colossal pram-toy-throwing exercise if and when the continent doesn’t bend...
It takes a lot to make Piers Morgan look like a reasonable, maligned man. It takes even more to make the audience feel sorry for him, but Alex Jones’ vitriol-spliced CNN rant went a long way to achieving that. Jones answered the first question with a three-minute long tirade that had nothing but wild gesticulations...
In 2012, I pitched 22 editors of magazines, newspapers and websites that I haven't worked with previously and two that I work with sporadically. Some of these contacts were sent several ideas, so we're probably talking about 30-something potential columns, features...
Is it really any wonder politicians hate every last one of the sniffling meat sacks they rule over? We’ve only got ourselves to blame. It’s our fault for pummelling these once-regular folk until they turn into monsters that wince at the prole-stench on the West Coast Main Line’s cattle cars.
MediaSpank's monthly column in Crack magazine is illustrated by the brilliant Lee Nutland (@LeeNutland). As an ode to his work over the last two years here's a gallery:
Spending seven days in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the run up to the US presidential election meant witnessing an endless parade of political adverts, banners, news coverage and bar talk about the two candidates, then this advert appeared telling viewers to vote Romney... and reminding everyone why socialism's a bad idea.