20th, April 2014
Politicians
ED Miliband has been in Israel, rediscovering his Jewish roots. The Daily Mail quotes the Labour leader as saying: "I would be the first Jewish prime minister if we win the election."... More »
20th, April 2014
In Pictures
WHEN Jesus died for our sins and was born again, he split history in two; it divided BC from AD. All other major religious figures are dead and buried. Only Jesus is alive - and he's giving jobs to actors who want it play him in Passion plays... More »
CHELSEA lose 2-1 at home to bottom-of-the-table Sunderland, and Jose Mourinho's assistant Rui Faria lets a long day in the sun and the excitement of being allowed to stay up with the grown ups get the better of him... More »
19th, April 2014
Reviews
THE lad stood by the rumbling train track, his camera raised up high, the driver spotted the lad and kicked him in the eye... More »
19th, April 2014
Liverpool
IT'S a Liverpool love in as Paul McCartney meets Luis Suarez.... More »
19th, April 2014
In Pictures
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19th, April 2014
Strange But True
NOMINATIVE Determinism: An occasional look at names that describe the named. The Florida court calls drug possession suspect Edward Cocaine.... More »
19th, April 2014
Reviews
OBITUARY of the day is from the Tampa Bay Times.... More »
19th, April 2014
Liverpool
11 WHEN Liverpool's Luis Suarez took a nip of raw Serb - today's dish is Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic - we loved it. Suarez should become this year's Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year. .. More »
19th, April 2014
Money
AS two different people have now noted, Matt Yglesias and Matt Levine, Yahoo is now officially valued at less than nothing. Which, for a company that has a $40 billion price tag on the markets is a pretty strange thing to try and say. But it also happens to be true... More »
19th, April 2014
Celebrities
That you, Joshua..? More »
19th, April 2014
Flashback
SNOOKER - 1958-1963.... More »
“THIS is the first time I have recovered gold from the stomach of a patient,” said C S Ramachandran, a senior surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.... More »
18th, April 2014
Politicians
3 THE War on Free Speech marches into Starkville, Mississippi, where police are seeking the master criminals who lampooned Starkville Aldermen David Little and Ben Carver using the Twitter accounts @DavidLittleBOA and @BenCarverPray.... More »
YAYA Toure, Manchester City's midfield force of nature, tells the BBC's Football Focus on BBC World News, that he would be held in higher regard were he not African... More »
18th, April 2014
In Pictures
DAN Witz lets the viewer teeter on the edge of the mosh pit. The mass of human faces, heads, limbs and legs act like a magnet. You want to join in, be part of the joyous, violent, happening mob.... More »
18th, April 2014
Celebrities
ONE THING the internet cannot yet do that newspapers can is field hand-written letters sent through the post... More »
18th, April 2014
Reviews
1 MAYOR Jim Ardis of Peoria, Illinois, has no sense of humour. If you parody him on the internet, he will be upset... More »
18th, April 2014
Money
DANA Snay just cost her father £80,000. When dear Dana realised her father had won an age-discrimination lawsuit against his former employer, the Miami-based Gulliver Preparatory School, she started to boast... More »
FLASHBACK to August 18, 1973... More »
18th, April 2014
Key Posts
THE BBC seems intent on presenting Britain as a land of twee crafting-obsessed hobbyists whose interests differ only marginally from those of 1950s housewives and labourers making the most of their one day off before the moustachioed factory boss forces them to sever another figure in the lathe. Having only recently finished another bombardment from The Great British Sewing Bee and it’s less soporific sibling The Great British Bakeoff, BBC2 has once again reheated the format for the less boastfully titled Big Allotment Challenge.... More »
18th, April 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to1 8/08/1973: Back in the days of yore, the losing FA Cup semi-finalists competed to see which one of them qualified for a non-existent bronze medal and the other nothing. The match lasted just five years, running between 1970 and 1975... More »
18th, April 2014
Celebrities
Mike Amess has claimed that he's allergic to Kim Kardashian. Of course, Kim Kardashian is the prime target in the world for people who want to knock someone without having to actually think of someone worthy of being a target... More »
18th, April 2014
Celebrities
IN 1978, the Associated Press met Kellie Everts, the Miss Nude Universe who became as a striptease artist performing on a Washington stage because "God told her to quiet her job as a social worker and return to the stage to perform her strip act".... More »
18th, April 2014
Flashback
6 A WHILE back, we covered some pretty peculiar games; however, there still remain board game curiosities which cry out for your attention. It seems there was no limit to the imagination (and debilitating insanity) of board game manufacturers. For every winner (i.e. Monopoly, Risk, Candyland) there were a hundred losers. Here’s a look at some of those losers. More »
