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Celebrity Big Brother – is a celebrity Madam a step too far?
6th January | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
And so the final series of CBB is upon us and so the C-listers emerge from the woodwork (sorry Vinnie). In Boy George’s absence, it seems the producers went in search of another celebrity criminal and returned with ‘Madam to the stars’, Heidi Fleiss. I always think it’s dangerous to get overly worked up about popular culture: it can so easily get out of hand and result in good people...
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Sexualising kids is a problem - shag bands are not.
11th November 2009 | 7 comments | 3 people like this
So the BBC's latest manufactured controversy is the shag band. Anyone who grew up in the '80s or at any point thereafter really will have some vague recollection of these plastic bangles. For those of you that don't recall, they are a collection of plastic wristbands sold for about 75p per bunch in a variety of colours, each supposedly associated with a different sexual act. The implication is that once...
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Alexandra Cocksworth
Twenty-three years old: 13 years in the Kentish countryside chasing bunnies. 5 years next to the Canterbury Cathedral. 3 years in Cambridge. 1 year in limbo 1 year in London...Staying put for now.
