11th, April 2014
Reviews
VINA Pankhania is the acting headteacher at Little Hill Primary, in Wigston, Leics. She's off on a four-week, unpaid trip to arrange her wedding. Vina will not be at school between April 28 and May 23... More »
11th, April 2014
Money
I know that the right hon. Member has a particular interest in biscuits, so to help quantify this amount, his spending in his last year in office is equivalent today to buying 720,479 packets of Jammie Dodgers from Waitrose (albeit, with a free cup of coffee thrown in).’... More »
11th, April 2014
Money
I'VE been saying for some time now that Bitcoin is a bubble. And we're seeing the usual and classic bubble behaviour in its price too. It's down to just under $400 today:
Bitcoin reached another milestone today, with the cryptocurrency falling below the $400 per-coin mark. Bitcoin sold for over $1,100 inside of the last 52 weeks.... More »
11th, April 2014
Reviews
HOW do you report on Mayka Kukucova the woman accused of murdering Andrew Bush at his home in Estepona, Spain?... More »
11th, April 2014
Reviews
GARY Neville fan Keira Knightley was discussing her favourite places to eat in Hello! magazine. Knightley likes all sorts of food, stating: “I’m a real food addict.”... More »
11th, April 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: The media has news of another Maddie... More »
11th, April 2014
Arsenal
IS the Sun turning into Viz? ... More »
10th, April 2014
Flashback
Suffice it to say, things have come a long way in just a short amount of time, and it’s a lot of fun to look back. So, let’s jump into Living With Computers by Patrick G. McKeown (1986)... More »
10th, April 2014
Flashback
ON this day in 1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead.... More »
10th, April 2014
Music
One man, called Richard Lee, is a Kurt Cobain death conspiracy theorist and he's suing the Seattle Police Department. He used to have a public access TV show called 'Kurt Cobain Was Murdered'. It's no 'Everybody Loves Ray'.... More »
10th, April 2014
Film
FRENCH cinema's intense The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups - the French title comes from the idiom, faire les quatre cents coups—“to raise hell”) features a fantastic performance from Jean-Pierre Léaud as the delinquent adolescent Antoine Doinel... More »
10th, April 2014
Sports
THE loan system isn't fait, is it? It favours the rich clubs. It favours Chelsea... More »
10th, April 2014
Music
OF all the dreadful, heart-wrenching stories to come from Guantanamo Bay, the news that the CIA are using the Red Hot Chili Peppers music as a torture device is surely the worst... More »
10th, April 2014
In Pictures
Hedgehogs aren't just for crisps.... More »
10th, April 2014
Flashback
HERE'S an unusual advert for a nice cup of Bovril, as drunk by Pope Leo XIII. It's from circa 1900. .. More »
10th, April 2014
Arsenal
WHO is the former "Arsenal "star fighting as a jihad warrior in Syria", as The Sun revealed... More »
10th, April 2014
Key Posts
THAT irritating rubbing noise you can hear is the handwringing from British TV reviewers who love their restarted weekly dose of Game of Thrones but must make sure to tell their readers how appalled they are by the objectification of women and the gratuitous violence... More »
10th, April 2014
Celebrities
FLASHBACK to June 28, 1937 at a Los Angeles station - file under awkward kisses... More »
10th, April 2014
Music
LIFE as a member of KISS must be more mental than living in a hedge filled with laughing spiders. And depressing too. More depressing than Gene Simmons blood-chilling sex tape. No, we're not providing a link. Look for it yourself. You'll never listen to Foreigner in the same way again... More »
10th, April 2014
Reviews
Why is it ok to attack a man for his looks but not to 'bully' a woman? More »
10th, April 2014
Flashback
We can’t go calling every romantic ballad “sappy”. Just as depressing songs have their place, so do overtly romantic songs. Perhaps, the best way to illustrate sap at its worst is by example. So, here we go... More »
10th, April 2014
Flashback
ON April 10, 1981, IRA prisoner and hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
Bobby Sand's victory was the second time the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone had elected a republican prisoner as their MP. The first, Philip Clarke, in 1955, was disqualified because the law then did not allow convicts to take up political office... More »
10th, April 2014
Celebrities
THE Ultimate Warrior has died at the age of 54, WWE has sadly confirmed. Born James Brian Hellwig, Warrior electrified kids and adults alike during his time as a fearsome wrestler of the WWE (formerly WWF). His wild antics, shock of crazy hair and charged entrance made him a hit with those who are fans of professional wrestling....
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10th, April 2014
Money
YES! We've another exciting instalment of the Apple v. Samsung patents battle and this time Apple are asking for over $2 billion in damages from the Korean firm. The problem is that they've used a very dodgy indeed method of trying to calculate those damages.... More »
10th, April 2014
Film
For a death scene to be considered shocking, it must be one that the audience can't see coming. In other words, we expect that Colonial Marines fighting aliens by the pack are going to die, or that confused convicts running from a monster in a dark corridor will come to a bad end... More »