Peaches Geldof Digs Deep To Continue Bob Geldof’s Work“PEACHES: YOU WILL DIE LIKE YOUR MUM.” The Star’s front-page juice is that Peaches Geldof might have been getting stoned and needs to can it or she will fall from the family tree like her fruity mum Paula Yates. Indeed, dear reader, who cannot read the Star’s front-page headline and wonder: But where’s the pun? It’s much the same on the Mail’s cover where its readers learn: “Police to question Peaches on ‘drug deal’ film.” No pun, although Mail readers may wonder if modern life really has turned into a Clockwork Orange, albeit with fuzz-faced Stoned Peaches running amuck. The Mirror continues the Dadaist theme by saying how “Peaches will be grilled by detectives”. What has become of a country where coppers go to work on toasted Peaches and not eggs or the more traditional kidneys, liver and backs of legs? “Peaches doing her drug deal,” says the Sun, shocked out of a pun but pragmatic enough to transcribe the incredible talking Peaches. (more…)
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Published: 2008-05-05
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Josef Frtizl And Austria’s House Of Horrors: Blame The NazisJOSEF FRITZL has admitted to keeping his family - daughter Elisabeth and their children – in the cellar of his Austrian house. But how Germanic is the crime? And what does it say about us? Now read on… DAILY MIRROR: “THE WORLD’S MOST EVIL DAD” Says police chief Franz Polzer: “We’re not talking about a prison designed to hurt its prisoners, but something built to fulfil their basic human needs. He got planning permission and gradually built the various rooms in which the children were born and lived.” The Oesterreich newspaper wrote in an editorial: “The community of Amstetten should drown in shame.” DAILY MAIL: “Austria: Secrecy, shame and the land of the lost children” Like many Britons whose image of Austria was defined by school history lessons and The Sound Of Music, whenever this landlocked Alpine nation is mentioned certain stereotypes spring to my mind. And the Nazis. And Hitler. And little cakes with pictures of Mozart on them.. Or at least they did, until this week. One would think of mountain vistas shimmering with snow-white swathes of edelweiss, and apple strudels accompanied by cream-topped mugs of hot chocolate. And one would remember that, although modern Austria is little more than a stepping-stone on the road to Eastern Europe, it was once the rock on which the mighty Hapsburg Empire was built, and dominated the civilised world for centuries. What about the Nazis..? As anyone who remembers the plot to The Sound Of Music will recall, during the late Thirties and Forties, Austrian society was riven with fear and mistrust, as some connived with the annexing Nazis and others (like the film’s defiant naval captain Georg von Trapp) sought to remain free of their malign influence. Fact and fiction. The camps are alive with the sound of… The Germans encouraged collaborators to spy on their neighbours and report any dissent, and - much as the Austrians now dislike admitting it - this has produced the sort of
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Published: 2008-04-29
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