(Muggle World) A new nasty trend tirelessly takes charge of countless cool-considered songs: many musicians must name names - namely, their own.
Whenever you swiftly switch on the roaring radio, you can listen to lovely lyrics and happy harmonies in astounding abundance. Lately, lots of (mostly male) musicians add announcements of their names. Prominent specimen of this nasty narcism are Jason de Rulo and Gustavo Lima.

We do not know why they need to name names, but strongly suspect they know those tired thousands who rarely recognize a song and singer while being perfectly able to softly sing along. To help those people, performers put in names to ensure easily matching melody and musician. Of course, we might be wrong and the artists artfully advertise with naming names...
Still, to us it is really ridiculous and a fine form of nervy narcism!
(BC&MF)

The perfect play has already attracted our attention. A mournful Monday willingly witnessed our walk to the triumphant theatre. The powerful play was quickly called “Out of Sight…Out of Murder” and was – believe it or not – a whodunit. Still the story was not simply about some Sherlock-style inspector but about an able author who is cleverly confronted with his careless characters after a sudden strike of lightning followed by a

sudden blackout. Unfortunately, the old author does not really remember whom he had put up to play the merciless murderer. Consequently, not only all the kind characters are in danger of dying but also the unsure author gloomy ghosts wherever you dare to turn and soon bloody bodies, too. The effective ending is evidence of an act of emancipation – good that our employees did not see it. (MF)

August 1 Summer finally arrives and with it the journalistic desert. Nobody seems to be home to produce stories, not even the baddies. BORING! We have to look for stories.
August 4 Story No. 1: An Olympic sportsman went out to celebrate his gold medal and was robbed. Promptly he was not allowed back into the Olympic Village and spent the night in a tube station. Muggles!
August 8 Story No.2: During the magical olympics, a canoeist managed to accidentally vanish his oars while he was leading. The referees decided that the athlete was so under pressure that he accidentally used a spell, although the canoeist declared his rival had caused the oars to vanish. Hm...
August 13 Story No. 3: A Common Welsh Green dragon escaped its habitat and was caught in the suburbs of Cardiff. It

(broompire) So here we are again, about to witness another spectacular show of Ministers Got Talent!
"Leslie, this is a show under the grave auspices of the so-called Euro-crisis." "Yes, Harriet, so it is. Guest juror Antonio Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece, has to deal with a lot of problems at the moment. Things look dire for the Greek indeed." "But of course minister Samaras is here on a noble mission, namely to test our remaining candidates on the highly important topic of reading, understand and explaining the budget, Leslie." "Well, Harriet, have you ever seen a budget?" "No, have you, Leslie?" "No, never... Let's have a look, then."
"Here is the first candidate, Brian Cullen. He can read the stuff, yes - and he even pretends to understand - oh no, Harriet! He just told minister Samaras how to save Greece, namely by not paying any pensions!" "This will see Brian in a precarious situation for sure, Leslie. Now who is next?"
"It's Mike Flatley, and he seems very puzzled indeed, but he can make something out of this kind of budget. Apparently it's about the costs for water and - yes, his ideas are clear and precise, how wonderful! Mike will surely be a contender to go on,

(broompire) Our new show has seen countless endings of the careers of future and present politicians. So far this show spelled the end for Rita Skeeter, Mafalda Hopkirk, Pansy Parkinson, Gilderoy Lockhart – who had a magnificent comeback last month, Sybil Trelawney and Hermione Granger candidatewise plus Sarah Palin, Christian Wulff, Vaclav Havel, Andreas Papandreiou, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy jurywise. Now before this one also has to step back let’s briefly interview him, besides, time is money!
MF: Welcome to the show Mr Samaras.
AS: Thanks for having me!
MF: We’ve just written it: time is money. And who would know better than you!
AS: Yes, that is true. Does that mean that I get money for this interview?
MF: You can forget that!
AS: What a pity, however, you could look at it as a donation for Greece.
MF: Greece that takes us directly to the point. How does Greece or have we reached the point where we should say: how much is Greece?

(The Magical World) The world at large was witness to the 30^th Olympic Games which took place over the summer. Unfortunately only a quite small proportion of the world at large was aware of and therefore able to watch the Magical Olympic Games. Naturally, they were featured here in your favourite magazine – if not at large, as there aren’t many people who are interested in sports (Quidditch is no sport as we know) and reading the most magical magazine. However, today we have to report on the latest addition to the Magical Olympic Games. Read on and find out whether you might be qualified to take part in the next Games.
Magical Sack Racing was included in the latest Games. Of course, this sport has a long tradition and has been included in the Games before. 1904 was the year that witnessed this sport being performed at the Magical Olympic Games. Coincidentally, the Muggle Olympic Games also witnessed the performance of a sack race, however, this one was non-magical.
Naturally, there are differences in the rules. Well, maybe not so much differences but additions. You will all be able to recall the rules of your childhood sack racing:
First and most importantly, you need some sort of sack. The sack should be big enough for you to fit in. Your two or more (if a centaur should be reading this) feet should have enough space in it. The sack should at least reach your hip or if you prefer it your chin – this might also depend on your size, professor Flitwick.