FUCK ZIMBABWE: Morgan Tsvangirai QUITS!!

Shit.

“At a news conference, Tsvangirai, who leads the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said he was unwilling to ask the party’s supporters to go the polls on Friday “when that vote will cost them their lives.”

Tsvangirai’s decision came on a day when governing party youth militia armed with iron bars, sticks and other weapons beat his supporters as they sought to attend a rally for him in the capital, Harare.

It was the latest incident in a tumultuous campaign season in which Tsvangirai has been repeatedly detained, his party’s chief strategist has been jailed on treason charges that most analysts say are trumped up, and rampant state-sponsored violence has killed at least 86 people and left thousands injured, according to tallies by doctors treating the victims.Fuck.”

He did try.

MEDIA BITES: BARBARA ALLEN MAKES A GOOD POINT!!

I’ve always been a distant fan of Barbara Allen. Distant because she can really wind me up with her ‘all woman are like this and feel like this’ articles. You know, the whole us versus them thing that these British female critics are OBSESSED with writing about. But I’m really into her column this Sunday, if not for her opinions on the media/social/public dehumanizing of Michelle Obama.

MEDIA BITES: KATE MOSS’S HANDBAG & COKE HOLDER IN THE TIMES!

It’s Sunday and I’m checking out the Sunday papers. Admittedly my interest in media fluctuates just as bad as my weight.

So I thought I’d check The Times which I’ve not read in ages and I see a ‘Linsey Lohan article’, a bad ‘Lily Cole article about nothing’ AND the worst an article about Davinia FUCKING Taylor!??

“There are Banksys on the walls (one from Sadie). A typical northerner, she’s “very house proud”. She cooks for the gang “five times a week. Ring round, see who’s in. We’ll chat about fashion, food, friends, what they’ve been up to, what everyone’s up to next week. Planning adventures. Kids. Normal chitchat, like you’d see on Coronation Street”.