7th, June 2014
Flashback
D-DAY: The French after the Allied invasion. What did they look like? Well, thanks to the intrepid reporters who risked life and limb to record the fighting, we have an idea... But what about the French, who had endured four years of Nazi occupation? The Resistance took heart. The refugees took bread and water. The collaborators took a beating... More »
7th, June 2014
Politicians
"[I]t was [former Secretary of State] George Shultz who gave me the best gift of all: A teddy bear that sang 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' when its paw was squeezed. I kept it in my office, first as a joke, but every so often it really did help to squeeze the bear and hear that song."... More »
7th, June 2014
The Consumer
Peek...a...BOOOO! More »
7th, June 2014
Film
2 RIDLEY Scott’s Alien (1979) dramatically altered the template for horror films set in outer space. For example, the blockbuster film was among the first (after Dark Star [1975] to suggest that travel in the final frontier would be the purview of “work-a-day” space truckers rather than noble explorers or adventurous astronauts... More »
7th, June 2014
Chelsea
TRANSFER Balls. A look at Eliaquim Mangala, the £35m-rated Porto central defender. As ever, the media's aim is to link every top player with every top English club... More »
6th, June 2014
Flashback
THE D-Day invasion wasn't all about the winners. It was also about the losers... More »
6th, June 2014
Books
2 THERE'S no better insight into the teenage girl psyche than those ubiquitous teen magazines. So, let’s step into the mind of early Seventies teenyboppers and take a look at the March 1971 issue of ‘TEEN magazine... More »
IT'S one of those little tragedies that hits most peoples' love lives at one time or another. One starts out the evening lookin' fer a little lurve and the eye alights upon one carrying a little extra weight. Some interesting handfuls perhaps: and then one wakes up next to a beached whale... More »
TRANSFER Balls: With cocky Nicklas Bendtner, newly "released" by Arsenal.. More »
6th, June 2014
Arsenal
6 WORLD Cup Balls presents the wisdom of Spurs' player Andros Townsend, now 'writing' for the Sun... More »
6th, June 2014
Flashback
War is an exciting time to be a journalist. It can also be terrifying. Many were plucked from routine city beats and dropped in a battlefield.... More »
6th, June 2014
Flashback
THE first war-correspondent dispatch from the D-Day landings came from Gustav, an RAF Coastal Command homing-pigeon, released by the Reuters news agency reporter Mr Montague Taylor... More »
6th, June 2014
Celebrities
IN this week's OK! magazine, we gain invaluable insight into the life of Cheryl Cole... More »
6th, June 2014
Key Posts
I NEARLY skipped The Secret Life of Babies on ITV this week for fear that it could never life up to the greatest documentary on the inner-workings of the baby mind: Rugrats. While the makers of The Secret Life of Babies failed to catch any of their subjects talking or tumbling around on quests, they did reveal a lot most of us probably didn’t know about the bouncing little bundles of joy... More »
6th, June 2014
Arsenal
TRANSFER Balls - more news from the Daily Fabreags. Following the Daily Star and TalkSports' "exclusive" news that Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas has passed a medical and signed for Chelsea, the Mirror today tells its readers that, er, he hasn't... More »
6th, June 2014
Flashback
The beginning of the end in 39 Photos.... More »
6th, June 2014
In Pictures
BRITISH artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss etched 9,000 bodies of the many who died in the D-Day Normandy invasion.... More »
5th, June 2014
Key Posts
1 IN preparation for the event of a gorilla escaping from Tenerife's Loro Parque Zoo, a man pretended to be an escaped primate. He was spotted by a vet. The vet hadn't been brought up to speed with the rehearsal. So. He shot the man in the gorilla suit with a tranquilliser dart containing enough medicine to down a 450lb gorilla.... More »
5th, June 2014
Flashback
ON the night of June 5 1944, the Allied began to bomb Normandy. Around 1300 RAF plans were followed by over 1,000 Us bombers. The assault began shortly after midnight under the command of General Bernard Montgomery... More »
5th, June 2014
Sports
Like this... Send for the Rainbow Tracker!... More »
5th, June 2014
Fashion
Look out for the " You've out your head though the wrong hole jumper"; the mobile shower curtain; and "your head brace is now cool"... More »
5th, June 2014
Reviews
THE War on Free Speech spots 24 students at Cowan Road Middle School, Spalding County, Atlanta, suspended for reading and responding to a Facebook post... More »
5th, June 2014
In Pictures
Is the net closing in? More »
More balls... More »
5th, June 2014
Fashion
Curtains for fashion... More »
