I’ve held back from speaking about the spectacular demise of News International (and, with any luck, more of the red-top tabloids) on here, lest I jinx it and everything goes back to normal. No doubt, you’ll have heard about it all already. No doubt you’ll continue to.

One odd development for me, however, has been my dreams over the past week. My subconscious has betrayed all its principles by sending me erotic dreams about Rebekah Brooks. I don’t fancy her. Fancy is the wrong word, after all. She represents everything I despise about the corporate media and its inextricable bond with politics and policing. Yet twice now, I’ve dreamt of pulling her hair very hard and giving her a rather brutal spanking. I can only imagine that it’s penance for Max Mosley and all the other BDSM enthusiasts she’s played a part in outing through her tabloids over the past years. Whatever the case, doing bad things to Brooks is disturbingly sexy, even in the context of a horrible, sleeping fantasy that I seem to have no conscious control over. I’m a sick pervert. Let’s never speak of it again. Feel free to make your own pun-based ginger joke about red-top tabloid scandals instead, while I go very quiet and grin to myself.

Anyway, I urge that you all add an Istyosty extension (it’s free) to your browser. It not only automates cached pages of the Daily Mail website (therefore stopping the Mail’s ad revenue being boosted by your click) but also does the same to a bunch of other tabloids. The simplest way to remove the influence that these papers hold over society is to stop paying them, directly or indirectly.

For Chrome/Chromium, click here and follow instructions.

For Opera, do much the same, but here.

For Firefox, go here, download, then a rule needs to be added (click “options”, then “add” and fill in the form as follows):

Include pattern: ^(http://(w*.)?(dailymai​l|express|thesun|dailystar​|telegraph).co.uk/.*)

Pattern type: Regular Expression

Photo below courtesy of the Guardian: