20th, April 2015
Film
This is just brilliant. Listeners to the BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say show were introduced to Godfrey Elfwick, a student from Sheffield talking about the lastest Star Wars franchise, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Force Awakens. Godfrey says the character "Dark Raider” is a a “racial stereotype”. More »
Anorak has one way of dealing with spider in the home: I leave the room and never return until a woman (it has to be woman - like ISIS nutjobs, spiders are terrified of women). But Danny Ford of Hallett Cove, South Australia, reaches for the household implements. When he spotted a venomous wolf spider in his home he went for the broom... More »
20th, April 2015
Reviews
Anorak's Other Parent of the year is Rachel Lynn Lehnardt, the 35-year-old Georgia mother who hosted an unforgettable party for her 16-year-old daughter... More »
Aston Villa beat Liverpool in an entertaining FA Cup semi-final. But what were the important scores, the ones newspapers give to players?... More »
Lord Greville Janner: a look at reporting on the Labour peer accused of child abuse. His family maintain his innocence... More »
Carol Bulut, 56, is in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. She admits sending a message that was offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. She said she would smash her partner's windows. Not nice. But can we sympathise with her?... More »
20th, April 2015
Film
Batman v Superman - Retro style... More »
20th, April 2015
Reviews
When the New York Times trawled Twitter for cool kids who vape for an article on e-cigarettes use among teenagers, @drugleaf replied... More »
20th, April 2015
Strange But True
To Germany where a local dentist must pay 20,000 euros in compensation to the man who came to him seeking help for erectile dysfunction and schizophrenia.... More »
20th, April 2015
Key Posts
This is an insidious invasion that has targeted our TV screens, and in particular the advertisements, ‘trails’ and promotional montages that seem to take up as much time as the programmes they punctuate... More »
Three years ago Annabel was playing with friends by her Texas home. She fell 30 feet inside a hollowed-out cottonwood tree. She survived. She said that while in the tree she had sat on Jesus's lap... More »
The research, carried out by anti-discrimination body Kick It Out, found that Chelsea were the most targeted club, with – surprise surprise – Mario Balotelli suffering more abuse than any other player... More »
19th, April 2015
The Consumer
Do you like slow tea? Do you like your tea to seep in the manner of sloth sweat? foodiggity has created these sloth tea bags. .. More »
The hunt for Westminster VIP paedophiles has focused in recent days on Lord Grenville Janner, who says he's innocent of allegations that he abused boys dating back to the 1960s. Janner, a Labour peer, and his accusers won't get their days in court because the good Lord has dementia and Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, says he won't be able to understand what's being put to him... More »
This week ESPN’s Britt McHenry learnt that only the famous get to appear on screen... More »
19th, April 2015
Reviews
One or two words can make or break a news report. So. To the story of the man spotted at a bus top by London's Grove Park station. A woman has seen the man, described as white, late middle-aged and balding... More »
19th, April 2015
Reviews
"It was an error of judgement," says Dean Walton of the Epping Ongar Railway, Essex, a vintage railway on which riders can "experience the romance of travel in bygone times"... More »
18th, April 2015
Reviews
1 Shona Banda has a problem of location. Her Chrohn's disease can be legally treated with cannabis in Colorado, where she'd lived for some time. Shona uses cannabis oil. She says it helps. But in the State of Kansas, her current home, using cannabis makes her a criminal... More »
In an unprecedented move, more than 100 Catholic leaders in San Francisco have called on Pope Francis to remove the city’s archbishop over his “intolerant” views on abortion and gay marriage... More »
Barack Obama is beyond parody: the US President is making sacrifices for the planet... More »
David Buchanan, 34, of Royal Wootton Bassett, England, was watching porn at home. His mind wondered... More »
17th, April 2015
Strange But True
Megumi Igarashi is in trouble for making a large scale “pussy boat” based on 3D scans of her own vulva... More »
17th, April 2015
Reviews
Daily Mail Death Watch: a week of Daily Mail stories about getting ill and dying... More »
17th, April 2015
Reviews
The story of Labour peer Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone, QC, features prominerly on the cover of the Times and Independent.... More »
Ed Miliband Watch: Is the Labour Party leader a vote winner or a vote loser? The Daily Mirror seems to have answered that question.... More »
