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5th, November 2014 Celebrities 3

Claudia Winkleman: Daughter 'Catches Fire' And UKIP Would See Her Burn

CLAUDIA Winkleman is on the front pages. Her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, has been taken to hospital on Friday after her Halloween costume caught alight... More »

4th, November 2014 Money

Idling: 70% Of Porn Traffic Comes From Office Computers During Work Hours

Slacking off, jacking off and clocking off... More »

4th, November 2014 Celebrities

A Tour of Slavoj Žižek’s Home: Searching For Uncle Joe Stalin Amid An Authentic Division

How to react to celebrity academic Slavoj Žižek? You could see him as a wild-eyed visionary and grow infatuated with his powerful-sounding ideas about power, violence, cinema, psychoanalysis, and perversion. Or you could see him as a Pied Piper for delusional graduate students... More »

4th, November 2014 manchester united

Manchester United: Now Offering Money to Players To Go Away

BEFORE this season, Manchester United have signed a host of players that haven't exactly lived up to the hype. While Alex Ferguson has signed some incredible players like Cantona, Ronaldo and Denis Irwin, he's also the man who threw money at David Bellion, Bebe, Eric Djemba-Djemba, Jordi Cruyff, Karel Poborsky, William Prunier and Kléberson. More »

4th, November 2014 Liverpool 4

Liverpool Balls: Brendan Rodgers And The Laughable Anfield Transfer Policy

LIVERPOOL Balls: Can Brendan Rodgers be absolved of blame for signing that haven't been top-notch?... More »

4th, November 2014 Books

Serious Writers Reveal Their Lowlife Reading Habits

I discovered, as I talked to lots of writers, that the vocabulary of the lowbrow almost universally reflects a kind of throwaway culture: garbage, disposable, trash... More »

4th, November 2014 Reviews

Pianist Uses EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Rules To Censor Bad Reviews

WHEN did the internet become all about promoting censorship?... More »

4th, November 2014 Reviews

Harvard University Teaches Students How To Have Anal Sex

Harvard University’s annual Sex Week observance, which launched Sunday, includes a workshop called “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101″ that aims to teach the Ivy League students how to have anal sex... More »

4th, November 2014 Politicians 1

Obama's Middle East Policy: Susan Rice Mocks Israeli Ambassador

HOW'S Obama's foreing policy on the Middle East going?... More »

4th, November 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Alexis Sanchez Would Only Pick Liverpool Over Arsenal If They Moved To London

LIVERPOOL Balls. The Daily Express says the Reds offered Barcelona £3million more than Arsenal for Alexis Sanchez... More »

4th, November 2014 Reviews

Rurik Jutting: 'Four Floors Of Whores', Sonya Milkshake And The Death Wish

RURIK Jutting is accused of murdering two women in Hong Kong. Today's media round-up... More »

4th, November 2014 Strange But True 1

Woman Stole Blind Man's Car - But Not His Gun

AMERICA is a great place. In the land of the free a blind man can hold a gun licence... More »

3rd, November 2014 Liverpool

Sad Liverpool Fans Will Flay This Banner Over Chelsea Calling For Brendan Rodgers' Head

Pathetic... More »

3rd, November 2014 In Pictures

Inspired Uncropped Album Covers Reveal The Full Picture

Outside the frames... More »

3rd, November 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool Balls: Brendan Rodgers Says Suarez And Sturridge Are 4 Times Better Than Balotelli And Sterling

Brendan Rodgers has a new theory. He explains why Liverpool are struggling this season... More »

3rd, November 2014 Strange But True

How To Squeeze A Spot Without Damaging Your Skin

You should not pinch the zit. You should fetch a pin, clean it with booze and skewer the thing.... More »

3rd, November 2014 Technology

The Universe Will End When A Tiny Bubble Appears Under Your Chair

l of a sudden a tiny little bubble will appear. It can appear anywhere—under your chair... More »

3rd, November 2014 Sports

Qatar 2022: The Winter World Cup

THE farce that is Qatar 2022 continues, with workers' rights being chucked in the bin, allegations of bribery abounding and, of course, the playing of a football tournament in a country that doesn't have any stadiums and the kind of weather that negates the beautiful game... More »

3rd, November 2014 Sports

Life Imitates Prince Buster: Swiss Footballer Banned For 50 Years

TO Switzerland, where Portugal Futebol Clube defender Ricardo Ferreira has kicked the ball into an referee's face and sprayed him with water... More »

3rd, November 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Lummox Marouane Fellaini Didn't Spit On Manchester City's Sergio Aguero: He Drooled

MANCHESTER United are an expensive mess. Manchester City are powerful. And the talk is on whther or not Marouane Fellaini spat at Sergio Aguero during the Manchester derby. Did he?... More »

3rd, November 2014 Sports

Snooker Champion Jimmy White Was Hooked On Crack And The 'Devil’s Dandruff'

Says the six-time world final runner-up: “If using cocaine is the Devil’s Dandruff, then smoking crack is worse. Much worse.”... More »

3rd, November 2014 Reviews

Whale Surfing Harrison Wiliams Is Too Dumb To Be Eaten By Sharks

DEAD whale surfer of the week was Harrison Williams, who was filmed clambering onto the beast off the coast of Perth, Western Australia... More »

3rd, November 2014 Reviews 1

Rurik Jutting: 'The Wind in the Willows' Killer 'Confesses' To Being An Educated Banker

RURIK Jutting is accused of murdering two women in Hong Kong. The dead women are Sumarti Ningsih, 25, and Jesse Lorena, 32... More »

2nd, November 2014 Music

Too Funny: House Music Dancers v A Wurlitzer Theatre Organ

Take it away, Reginald Dixon and the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ enthusiasts... More »

2nd, November 2014 Money 1

What I Learned Working In A Sex Shop

I once worked as a 'marketeer' in brothels (placing cards in phone boxes, mostly). They were flats in London's West End, rented out for the day by owner's who'd gone to work... More »