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16th, July 2014 Music

The Beatles Tour De Force: Ron Howard Pipes Them Live and Direct To The Masses

On film, their live prowess has been somewhat neglected... More »

16th, July 2014 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Arturo Vidal Gets 'Manchester United' Shoved In His Mouth

TRANSFER Balls: Let's see how the Press deal with Arturo Vidal... More »

16th, July 2014 Arsenal

Daily Mail Attacks Manchester City's Joe Hart And Arsenal's Jack Wilshere For Following Its Health Tips

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15th, July 2014 Sports

Arsenal's Smoking Jack Wilshere Relights The Spirit Of 1966

ARSENAL'S Jack Wilshere has been spotted smoking...again... More »

15th, July 2014 Music

The BBC Defends Black Music Critcism... And Quite Right Too

The top 5 was made up of Sheeran, Disclosure, Tinie Tempah, Sam Smith and Rudimental and Austin Daboh BBC Radio 1Xtra's music manager defended the list:... More »

15th, July 2014 Technology 4

Stop Trying To Turn Women Into Scientists And Engineers Says Expert

GIVEN the way that the entire society seems to agree that we should have roughly equal numbers of men and women doing the same sort of jobs it's a bit of a surprise to find an expert insisting that this is all codswallop.... More »

15th, July 2014 Reviews

1953 Photos: Christine Jorge, The GI who Became a Woman, Passes Her Driving Test In New York

After the change... More »

15th, July 2014 Key Posts

Kidrock: The Best, Worst And Most Confusing Youthful Hits And Misses

Some of it polished, some of it as confusing and brilliant as the children that made it... More »

15th, July 2014 Reviews 6

Lancashire School Sends Out This Letter Pandering To The Thickos

THIS letter was sent by Barrowford School to its leavers.... More »

15th, July 2014 Reviews

Transfer Balls: Toni Kroos And The Manchester United Dream That Never Was

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14th, July 2014 Music

Your favourite rock star is probably about to die

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14th, July 2014 Money

Woman Fails Driving Test 110 Times

AND she's not even got to the practical part yet... More »

13th, July 2014 Strange But True 1

Woman Finds 'God' Miracle In Her Curls

KRISTIN Kissee, a cancer survivor, saw God in hair.... More »

13th, July 2014 Sports

British Newspapers Duped By North Korea Win World Cup Story

NORTH Korea have made it to the World Cup final. The Metro report... More »

12th, July 2014 Celebrities 1

The Real Problem With Musician's Tax Avoidance

THERE'S quite the kerfuffle in musicville, after it turned out that a number of wealthy musicians were ferreting their money away in tax avoidance schemes... More »

12th, July 2014 Key Posts 1

Flippers And Faps: The Dark Side of Dolphins

THINK of dolphins and you might think of Fred Neil’s beautiful, poignant song of that name, performed here, in one of his many versions, by the late Tim Buckley… More »

12th, July 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Sami Khedira Wants Arsenal And £6m More To Play for Manchester United

TRANSFER Balls: Is Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Sami Khedira heading from Real Madrid to Arsenal?... More »

12th, July 2014 Music 1

The Ultimate Tour De France Playlist

WITH the Tour De France in full swing, nearly killing riders with wet cobbles and craft ale enthusiasts thrilling at the warring riders like teenage Hollyoaks fans, it got us thinking about cycling music.... More »

11th, July 2014 Money

Now Berkeley Offers Free Cannabis To The Poor

YOU may have heard about the slow legalisation of cannabis in certain US states. First came medical marijuana, treatments for things like the nausea produced by chemotherapy, to reduce certain eye conditions and so on... More »

11th, July 2014 Celebrities 2

Jimmy Savile Was 'A Trans-Dimensional Sorcerer Who Harvested Occult Energies'

Jimmy Savile was magick! More »

11th, July 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal Put Santi Cazorla In The Shop Window (And Sell Him)

More Transfer Balls... More »

11th, July 2014 Sports

Cambridge University Finds Three Words Most Used To Describe Each World Cup Team

THE Cambridge University Press has been studying millions of words used to describe each of the 32 nations competing at the 2014 World Cup... More »

11th, July 2014 Reviews

Arsenal balls: Daily Mail Attacks Germany's Mesut Ozil For Being A Useless Foreigner

Ozil's crime is to be the only player in the German starting XI for the World Cup semi-final who plays in the Premier League. This unique quality allows the tabloids to slam him as being a fancy foreigner not worth the money.... More »

11th, July 2014 Celebrities 1

Steven Spielberg Attacked For Hunting Big Game And Smirking

KILL an animal on the web and you get hunted down by the police. Kill an endangered species and pose with the carcass and you get something worse: you get shamed on Facebook... More »

11th, July 2014 Money

The Daily Mail and Human Sexuality: Explaining Nymphomania

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