Hazlegate

Ronnie Hazlehurst did not co-write the song “Reach” by S Club 7. Someone, however, amended his Wikipedia entry mere weeks ago to say that he did. Whether they knew he was shortly to die is open to speculation but, intentionally or not, that otherwise pointless hoax has functioned as a barium meal highlighting other people’s lazy research:

The Hazlepedia Hall of Shame

Racist e-fit

It’s 18 months since the shop down the road was fatally firebombed. At the time the police released this e-fit picture of the suspect:



It was based mainly on descriptions given by police officers since he had, perhaps rashly, decided to firebomb a shop opposite the local police station.

Here’s what the man responsible, who is a paranoid schizophrenic and will be detained indefinitely, actually looks like:



It’s odd, he doesn’t seem to be quite such a racist caricature in real life.

Racist e-fit #2

This is, honestly, a picture the Met have presented to the court as a central pillar of their defence; a composite shot of two men who don’t really look very much alike but who do admittedly have short black hair.

The defence is taking the robust line that the prosecution hasn’t a clue about actual policing and that everything was done as well as it could have been. Presumably that includes falsifying transcripts by inserting the word “not” and submitting a false report to Menezes’s post-mortem. Are you reassured yet?

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Next time you hear anyone getting excited about the new inclusive media age, “360-degree content platforms” and the increasing involvement of the audience, just remember that what they’re encouraging in effect is contributions like this:

Watch on YouTube

EDIT: Tragically this brief shower of inanity, along with all her other videos, has been pulled from YouTube “due to terms of use violation”. Shame, really; she was the future, once.