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The Guardian - UK
Politics

Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Boris on a zip wire
Boris on a zip wire, where you might not expect … Photograph: dangleboris.wordpress.com by #BBHBarn

Boris, dangling

Oh the fun that has been had since BJ got stuck on a zip wire in London's Victoria Park on Wednesday. Now he's dangling from pretty much anywhere you care to put him. See dangleboris.wordpress.com (by #BBHBarn) for more...

Best dressed?

Er, Prince Harry has been included on the Vanity Fair best dressed list, rather degrading the compliment for his fellow listees. Surely it should take a bit more than a suit and some desert boots to get on?

The women done good

Is it too much to ask commentators to refrain from referring to female athletes as "girls"? As in "these two girls" Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who rowed most ungirlishly to gold in the coxless pairs yesterday. Don't hear anyone calling Wiggo a boy.

Hotmail gone cold

Microsoft is replacing Hotmail with a new Outlook system. A generation grew up with Hotmail as its first free email address. Feels like the end of an era.

Celebs to the rescue

Now R Patz is reported to be receiving support and comfort from Reese Witherspoon while Kristen Stewart is being comforted by Jodie Foster. It's the story that keeps on giving.

Lanyard craziness

To all the people travelling around London with lanyards on, making like athletes: if you've left the Olympic village, you can take them off, you know.

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