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Housekeeping 1: What the actual fuck?

I've noticed a couple of pictures on my desktop that I hadn't used for blog posts last week, so I thought I'd tidy them up by posting them up. Here's the first, quite a delightful front page from last week's Daily Express:

So many questions enter your head at once. Why is it 'hooray'? Why does the Express believe in scientists when they're talking about the ozone layer, but not when they're talking about climate change? By using words like 'rotter' and 'hooray' on a front page, are they actually taking the piss out of themselves or are they just trying to sound like the fucking Beano in 1955? Is the nice orange dog going to be deported because it's an immigrant? Who was the benefit cheat who was sent to jail? Why was it 'at last', as if it never happens at any other time? Is the Express losing the plot? Is Richard Desmond trying to make his newspaper a laughing stock? Or is it a laughing stock already?

Hooray!

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