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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The Great Peanut Butter Escape Of 2017

(National Public Radio)
Escape

The Great Peanut Butter Escape = Better put a Great Escapee Hunt
Anagram: Pinchas Aronas
Image: Fox Wu

'Hire more staff' UK union berates "failing" EU airports for making Brits queue for HOURS

(The Daily Express)

Hire more staff ~ Safer for it, meh!
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Monday, July 31, 2017

Mooch lasts ten days

(Huffington Post)
Kattan

Mooch lasts ten days = A sly smooth cat's end
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: FolsomNatural

Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89

(The New York Times)
Untitled

The iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau has died = Such an enchantress. "Je t'adore, ma chèrie," I confide.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: bswise

Trump's lies are the Republican playbook

(Daily Kos)
Republican Party Bends Knee to Trump

"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - that writer and a political satirist, P.J. O'Rourke
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Just look at the old, elite institution of the US Republican Party, starring foul Edgar Hoover, psychotic roue President Donald Trump, doleful Gerald Ford, Spiro Agnew, Dwight Eisenhower, Rick Santorum, etc. O leer at voters too. What woeful, useless fools. (No offence!)
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Mike Licht

A Dysfunctional White House

(NBC Los Angeles)
trump, you're fired

Dysfunctional White House = I fault NYC's White House Don
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: doubichlou14

General John F. Kelly

(Washington Post)
John F. Kelly - Caricature

General John F. Kelly = JFK? Hell, nearly gone!
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Caricature: DonkeyHotey

'You're all over the place' Channel 4 host roasts Labour peer over party's Brexit disunity

(The Daily Express)

Vocally, let Europe hear ~ you're all over the place
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Passchendaele, 100 years on: a final great act of remembrance

(The Guardian)
Passendale: Passchendaele New British Cemetery (West-Vlaanderen)

"A more sacred place for the British does not exist in the world," said politician Winston Churchill = I adopt ironic criticism of Passchendaele (this horrendous, hellish World War I battle) in context.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Michael Day

Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci

(The New Yorker)


Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci ~ oh, caustic crony, macho man
Anagram: Russ Atkinson

End of the EU? Wave of populism takes over bloc

(The Daily Express)
Gone with the wind...

End of the EU = The one feud
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Theophilos Papadopoulos

Trump tells police: 'please don't be too nice' when arresting gang members

(The Daily Express)
DRIVE OUT TRUMP/PENCE FASCIST REGIME -- trans protest rally/march in the castro, scott richard

"Please don't be too nice!" says President Trump = Needs testy police to beat up damn prisoners
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: torbakhopper

Saturday, July 29, 2017

'Sturgeon's the only winner!' SNP politician who LOST HER SEAT hails snap election result

(The Daily Express)

'Sturgeon's the only winner' ~ yet the running losers won
Anagram: Robert Jordan

President Trump replaces White House chief of staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly

(USA Today)
Reince Priebus - Caricature

Reince Priebus has gone = Curbs espionage in here
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Caricature: DonkeyHotey

Hammond's Brexit plan REVEALED: Chancellor wants to keep UK 'tangled in EU free movement'

(The Daily Express)


Hammond's Brexit plan REVEALED = Leave? Next PM's bold hard Remain
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Charlie Gard's parents say their 'beautiful boy' has died

(The Guardian)


The infant Charlie Gard dies = Life is hard, then a tragic end.
Anagram: Julian Lofts

Friday, July 28, 2017

Scaramucci blames Reince Priebus for White House leaks as Trump chaos escalates

(Vox)
The Mooch, after Matt Groening

Reince leaks ~ like a screen
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Illustration: Mike Licht

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

'Do you REGRET it?' Nick Robinson SLAPS DOWN Jeremy Corbyn

(The Daily Express)
Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, UK

"Do you REGRET it?" Robinson = Young sorrier; in debt too
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Chatham House

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

'Test-tube rhino' a last-ditch bid to save species from extinction

(The New Zealand Herald)
Angalifu the Northern White Rhinoceros male (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)

Can farm a white 'test-tube rhino', uh? = I manufacture the beast with horn
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Heather Paul

Monday, July 24, 2017

Our Earth is Becoming a Plastic Planet

(Frack Check WV)
Waste Collects on the Shores of Timor-Leste

Our earth is becoming a plastic planet = A brochure image? Canal is not spelt t-i-p*
*tip = dump (British English)
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: United Nations Photo