1st, May 2014
Film
8 JOHN Carpenter’s film career has had its critical ups and downs, but time – the final arbiter of success, perhaps – has been almost universally kind to the vast majority of his cinematic work. Reviled upon release in the summer of Spielberg’s E.T., John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is now revered as a horror classic and a work of art superior to the Howard Hawks film of 1951... More »
1st, May 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: As the anniversary of her vanishing looms, the Sun creates a splashy no-news story... More »
BACK in December 2013, after Chelsea lost to Sunderland in the Capital One Cup quarter-final, a pouting Jose Mourinho told the media... More »
1st, May 2014
Money
And so, to the reformation of The Libertines, where a band of Think They're Punks have eschewed guerilla gigs and being 4REAL, in favour of a big fat payout... More »
1st, May 2014
Books
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1st, May 2014
Politicians
1 Once is off. Twice is a trend... More »
1st, May 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to April 29, 1950: Arsenal take on Liverpool in the FA Cup final... More »
1st, May 2014
Strange But True
EVER swallowed sea water? David Littschwager took a single drop of seawater and magnified 25 times. Want to see what's in one drop of the salty soup?.. More »
1st, May 2014
Reviews
OH, the romantics in Gay Paris. You can see them on the Pont des Arts footbridge writing their names on padlocks and securing them it to the bridge... More »
1st, May 2014
Arsenal
DID you look at the kit Arsenal and England's David Seaman wore at Euro '96 and think 'I want me one of those'? His second kit was little better... More »
1st, May 2014
Money
WE all know that the London high end property market is out of control as all those rich bastards from other countries pile in to buy themselves a Mayfair mansion. And we all also know that there's a terrible shortage of housing in London that normal people can actually afford to live in. Which makes it interesting what the Duke of Westminster is doing... More »
1st, May 2014
Flashback
The pass bisects the defence and the striker is through on goal… only to sky the ball over the bar. What is the correct term for the spurned opportunity?... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
RIGHT now Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is answering police questions. Or, maybe, he's getting an actor to do it for him? Addams has been questioned by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConvill... More »
30th, April 2014
Chelsea
CHELSEA are playing in the semi-final of the Champions' League. They are 1-2 down, needing two goals to progress to the final. They can give up because the BBC says the game is already over... More »
30th, April 2014
manchester united
EPISODE 2 of what the experts said when David Moyes was made Manchester United manager... More »
30th, April 2014
Celebrities
2 "If I could play video games, you bet it would be an Atari"... More »
AND the Norwich City fans player of the year 2013-2014 is... Carlo Nash.... More »
30th, April 2014
Celebrities
BOB Hoskins was one of the most remarkable actors of his era... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
THE AP's report on the news on the laboured execution of Clayton Lockett, 38, who shot a 19-year-old woman and buried her alive after a robbery, features an odd headline... More »
30th, April 2014
Fashion
JAMES Lileks has looked beyond the shards of lard and war-effort carrot stuck between our grey teeth to DIY British fashions of the mid 20th Century... More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
THIS is pretty good of the Daily Mail, rediscovering something that was published only those 150 short years ago. That there's something to this heredity argument, that children tend to look a bit like their parents and so on. You know, this idea that daughter of pretty woman might be pretty woman sorta thing?... More »
30th, April 2014
Flashback
WE recently told how, back in 1964, the Yardbirds gave an impromptu performance in Lord Willis’s back garden, in an attempt to convince the skeptical peer that there was some merit in this pop music lark. Music - Lord Willis listens to the Yardbirds in his back garden - 1964 To modern eyes the setting might appear somewhat incongruous. But in those days it was very much the ‘in thing’ to do one’s thing anywhere and everywhere. As these Fab Five films demonstrate better than words ever could… More »
30th, April 2014
Reviews
A HUGE rotting blue hales lying on the bank of the Trout River, Newfoundland, could explode. Those things can be messy. .. More »
30th, April 2014
Politicians
UKIP, once derided as "loonies" have issued a set of posters that look a little familiar... More »
