12th, May 2014
Liverpool
WHAT'S that chirping sound. No. It's not Jamie Carragher giving more insight on SKY TV ("Sleep cornflakes scouring pad chops medina happy ways on"). It's the sound of chickens coming home to roost... More »
12th, May 2014
Celebrities
1 SO. Gary Barlow's been found to have "invested" in a tax avoidance scheme. So therefore there are cries that he should be stripped of his OBE, or hand it back himself. The very idea of which is bloody stupid. For he's not actually broken the law as yet. He'll only do that if he doesn't stump up the tax which HMRC now thinks is rightfully due... More »
12th, May 2014
Reviews
The Rev. Cesar Truqui, an exorcist based in Switzerland, recounted one experience he had aboard a Swissair flight. “Two lesbians,” he said, had sat behind him on the plane. Soon afterward, he said, he felt Satan’s presence.... More »
12th, May 2014
Music
1 AND so it came to be that Thomas Neuwirth transformed a drippy signer with a terrible voice into Conchita Wurst - a bearded singer in a dress with a nightclub singer's voice.. More »
12th, May 2014
Reviews
One of the plate glass panes looking onto the gorilla paddock was shattered and... More »
12th, May 2014
Film
AH, yes. The school dance. Awkward and often soul shattering, it was a necessary rite of passage. It's no surprise that such a dramatic collective memory would make for some great moments on film. Here's a list (in no particular order) of the 16 greatest school dance scenes in movies. Feel free to add your own - I'd love to hear them... More »
11th, May 2014
Sports
Never let the enemy see your tears. If you do, you will look weak and pathetic. They will point and deride you - just as all fans should mock players who bawl their eyes out on the pitch when they lose... More »
11th, May 2014
Royal Family
THE Sun says "CHEEKY restaurant staff cleaned up after a visit from Princes William and Harry — by flogging their dirty dishes." So. Plates and glasses touched by the princes's honeyed lips at Memphis' Rendevous eaterie "started a bidding war to the 100-strong crowd outside."... More »
THE season is over for plucky Manchester United, who fought back away to earn a drawer against Southampton.... More »
11th, May 2014
Politicians
LOOK out Boko Haram. You Islamist nutjobs have nothing our our Prime Minister, David Cameron.... More »
11th, May 2014
Liverpool
1 MANCHESTER United fans are looking increasingly bitter and sad.To put the tin lid on a season where the club that for so long has held sway over English football fell to bits - and in which local rivals Manchester City won big - they flew a banner over Anfield... More »
11th, May 2014
Reviews
THE Guardian has a fine reputation for making errors. This week, the paper of record for life in Islington and some parts of Camden Town says Glasgow is the capital of Scotland.... More »
11th, May 2014
Celebrities
KATIE Price tells the Sun that in spite of her husband Kieran Hayler's reported cheating on her with a pal, she still wants him there by her side when their child is born at London's Portland Hospital... More »
10th, May 2014
Books
PHILIPPE Petit Is talking to the New York Times about his new book Creativity: The Perfect Crime. It begins: “Make no mistake. I frown upon books about creativity”... More »
10th, May 2014
Money
WE'D like to thank the United Nations for awarding Anorak $950,000. The email from the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s personal Yahoo account was a surprise. We'd not talked before. But he took the chance and wrote to me. And I have accepted... More »
10th, May 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: A round-up of reporting on the missing child: The Times: "New hunt for Maddie opens old wounds in Praia da Luz"... More »
IS Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger heading back to Monaco. The Sun says he might be... More »
10th, May 2014
Strange But True
ON Turkish TV dating show “Ne Çıkarsa Bahtına” (The Luck of the Draw), Sefer Çalınak, 62, is looking for love... More »
KERRY Dixon, formerly of Hitchin Town and Letchworth FC has been arrested on suspicion of trading in cocaine, say reports. ... More »
In the May 8th issue of the Daily Mirror he looks back at his foresight: "Nobody likes a professor of hindsight, but three months ago in this column I warned that the Reds' title charge would fall just short because they spring too many leaks away from home." Can this be the same Prof. Robbie Savage who said Everton would finish the Premie League in 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th positions?... More »
9th, May 2014
Money
1 THIS isn't, perhaps, entirely the wisest public complaint that a restauranteur or hotelier has ever made. The whine is that people are turning up and insisting that they're very important reviewers on Tripadvisor. Therefore, give me a deal... More »
IS Adam Lallana staying at Southampton? Let's see what the experts are saying?... More »
9th, May 2014
Celebrities
SO. How do you get to marry actress and rubber glove model Helen Mirren? Thankfully, the guessing is over as Mirren told Hello! why she plighted her troth to Taylor Hackford... More »
