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Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Tottenham Court Road ‘bomb’ suspect was BNP candidate
  2. Boris says questions on NewsCorp sponsorship are “fucking bollocks”
  3. Fashion icon: Pakistani fabric stall uses Danny Alexander in hoarding
  4. UKIP candidate: ‘Koran is worse than Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf’
  5. Is Brian Coleman losing it? Tory cllr “goes mad” at shopkeepers
Election week is like a full moon — it brings all the nutters out in force.

Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Subway advertise for “sandwich artist” — paid just £2.60 an hour
  2. Nick Griffin’s sick anti-Muslim joke on Tottenham Court Road ‘hostages’
  3. £120,000-a-year Tory ‘called nurse a “twat”‘ at public meeting
  4. James Murdoch used to hide a gun under his desk
  5. £4.4 billion DWP contractor refuses to delete lies after watchdog ruling
Recession, Leveson and Nick Griffin making racist statements. Just an ordinary week in politics.

Ask Murdoch: the NewsCorp search engine of choice

Murdoch senior’s testimony to the Leveson Inquiry might have finished, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to! Scrapbook presents a new and up-to-date version of the Ask Murdoch search engine, guaranteed to be helpful to government ministers looking to ingratiate themselves with the NewsCorp boss.

Warning: may be prone to convenient memory lapses.

Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Ex-chair of young Tories: “Should the unemployed be able to vote?”
  2. Now UKIP recruit claims it is “dangerous” to let unemployed vote
  3. The moment a Tory minister laughed during asbestos victims debate
  4. Tory MP: gay weddings will lead to child marriages and bigamy
  5. £4.4 billion DWP contractor refuses to delete lies after watchdog ruling
A tour-de-force this week, showing that the nasty party is alive and well.

Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Laurie Penny saved from speeding New York taxi – by Ryan Gosling
  2. George Galloway ‘I never drank alcohol’ claims to be disputed
  3. Brian Paddick publishes personal details along with accounts
  4. Boris Johnson escorted away from naked woman on dawn raid
  5. Now Boris challenged over tax after “f**king liar” lift confrontation
The weirdest story of the week was also the most popular.

Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Cash-for-access lobbyist Sarah Southern had Cameron picture on business card
  2. Grandma 2.0: pensioner launches petition against hated Granny Tax
  3. Committee: Iain Duncan Smith broke the law during disability cover-up
  4. £500,000 Premier League donor was put in charge of Tory policy review
  5. Labour councillor claims: my mother is a nine-foot green alien
Cash-for-access, granny tax, pasties, petrol panic: this has been a week from hell for Cameron, his party and his government.

Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week

Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were:

  1. Budget nasties: the bits George Osborne forgot to mention
  2. Nadine Dorries blocked from Queen’s diamond jubilee speech
  3. Labour HQ suspect another leak over “Better off with Ken” campaign
  4. Millionaire George Osborne denies he’s a highest rate tax payer
  5. If looks could kill: Cameron scowls at Bercow during Queen’s speech
It comes as no surprise that the budget which brought us the granny tax and the pasty tax should lead the rankings this week.

Ban this sick filth: Orange thinks Political Scrapbook is pornography

A year ago, Scrapbook was blocked by O2 as part of an opt-out filtration for over-18 content; now it’s happened again. This time Orange have decided that we are unsuitable for minors.

With thanks to the folks at the Open Rights Group for letting us know, we’re beginning to wonder if there’s some sort of conspiracy against us. Apparently customers have to chose not to be a part of the faulty filter, so many may not even be aware that their mobile browsing is ineptly censored- and could be missing on more sites than simply Scrapbook.

The Great Firewall of China has nothing on the illiberal policies of British phone networks.

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