
The front of this morning’s London Independent and inside today’s Guardian.
You know what they say about liberal newspapers: they’re the ones that fire you on Christmas Eve.
(Guardian Twitpic via Sinead Degan)

The front of this morning’s London Independent and inside today’s Guardian.
You know what they say about liberal newspapers: they’re the ones that fire you on Christmas Eve.
That’d be Frank Fahy, below, in happier times, preparing to talk a pile of shit.
That’d be George Osborne, below pictured when he was auditor of The Enoch Powell Youth Wing at Oxford University.
And here’s that ‘much to teach us’ article.
Tumblr, 9eyes is a collection of productivity-sapping WTF Streetview images from around the globe by Jon Rafman. The third one down is from Limerick.
Giant images make for an (occasionally) slowish load but it’s well worth the wait.
To Cowen in the Dail this afternoon:
“You have betrayed the people of Ireland. You Have betrayed your party. You have betrayed the founding fathers of your party.”
That’s got to hurt.
OK., it took 35 years (this week). But still.
Cyanide and Happiness, one of Broadsheet’s favourite web comics, is mostly the work of 25 year-old cartoonist David McElfatrick from Coleraine. The jammy young pup recently emigrated to Texas on a notoriously hard-to-get 0-1 visa in order to work more closely with his three American co-creators.
Such is the popularity of the strip, 140,000 US fans signed a petition to get him in.
‘CYANIDE & HAPPINESS’s’ Dave McElfatrick tackles visas, viscera & American humor (Washington Post)
Previously: Repulsel (a C&H animation); Hypochondria and the Hat, Twist and F**k Trilogy.