7th, April 2014
Money
CHAMANGENI Zulu is now surely on his way to riches. Currently in residence at Zambia's Chipata General Hospital in Zambia, near the Malawi border, Mr Zulu followed doctor's orders: he went into the bush and allowed / encouraged a hyena to eat his penis... More »
What price free speech now? More »
6th, April 2014
Books
2 IN 1940, the pamphlet A potato that wasn't a Christian hit the streets.. More »
6th, April 2014
Flashback
2 I would horrify them by telling them how the 'bar' tore Indian children to pieces, and how I finally trapped the 'bar' with a young dead Indian. Then the 'bar' was led out by a chain, and he would dance before he unbuttoned himself and out stepped a man... More »
6th, April 2014
The Consumer
JESSICA Harrison makes the most fantastic art. Jessica, a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art in 2000, holds a practice-led PhD in sculpture funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.. More »
6th, April 2014
Flashback
1 IN 1958 New Haven-based toymaker A.C. Gilbert Company turned youngsters onto science with a new kit. The LAB TECHNICIAN SET was a "CAREER BUILDING SCIENCE" kit. And it was got Girls.... More »
6th, April 2014
Liverpool
LIVERPOOL are top of the Premier League. They defeated West Ham United 2-1. They scored two penalties. The first was a pen. The second shouldn't have been. The Hammers' goalkeeper Adrian got to the ball first. We captured Jon Flanagan's tumble on camera... More »
6th, April 2014
Books
AT last, a welcome repeat of Michael Palin and Terry Jones’s Ripping Yarns – post-Python parodies of all things public school and derring-do... More »
Txiki Begiristain, City’s director of football, says he knows the contents of Suarez's Liverpool contract. He "believes" the contract Suarez signed in December 2013 contains a release clause making a transfer viable if the player wants to move... More »
6th, April 2014
Reviews
MUG Shot of the day features 21-year-old Ross McMakin, of Philomath, Oregon, arrested last Sunday on multiple charges including driving under the influence of intoxicants... More »
6th, April 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to May 25th 1963: FA Cup Final: Manchester United v Leicester City. Manchester United players celebrate with the FA Cup after their 3-1 win: (l-r) Tony Dunne, Bobby Charlton, Noel Cantwell, Pat Crerand, Albert Quixall, David Herd... More »
6th, April 2014
Arsenal
ARSENAL'S list of injuries is a running sore. for Gunners fans. Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey, Abou Diaby, Lucas Podolski, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Laurent Koscielny others have endured lengthy lay-offs this season. Who to blame?... More »
5th, April 2014
Books
So 1970s... More »
5th, April 2014
Celebrities
KURT Cobain left a long hand-written suicide note. It included the words of Neil Young from the song “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue): “Better to burn out / than to fade away,” Neil Young is 68 years old. Cobain was just 27 when he ended his life 20 year ago this weekend... More »
5th, April 2014
Flashback
2 FLASHBACK to May 1 1934... More »
5th, April 2014
Flashback
1 Football in the 1980s was not all about hooligans... More »
5th, April 2014
Politicians
MARIA Miller is the Tory MP and Culture Secretary. She is involved in discussions over the future of press regulation. She wants more of it. She is just one of the cross-party elite (and you can include artists in this illiberal group) who like free speech but want to insert a "but" after it. She wants limits on freedom... More »
4th, April 2014
The Consumer
Brilliant.... More »
4th, April 2014
Reviews
GARETH Davies is chief reporter of the Croydon Advertiser. Police have served him with an harassment order, a “Prevention of Harassment Letter”. His offence? He put allegations to a convicted fraudster. Free speech is under attack... More »
4th, April 2014
In Pictures
DO you suffer from claustrophobia? If you do, then The Tokyo railways system is not for you. German photographer Michael Wolf has captured the cheek-to-cheek commute endured by Japanese commuters in Tokyo... More »
4th, April 2014
Flashback
ON September 6 1914, the prolific writer, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes wrote How It Feels To Be Forcibly Fed for The World Magazine. Barnes was a reporter working on a series of "stunt stories"... More »
4th, April 2014
Flashback
Memo of note... More »
4th, April 2014
Celebrities
JON Ham aged well. In the mid 1990s, Ham appeared on the TV dating show The Big Date, hosted by Mark Walberg.The man who would knock them bandy as Mad Men's Don Draper strikes out. More »
4th, April 2014
Key Posts
I'VE been thinking about bad endings this week; one in fiction and one, dreadfully, tragically real. Pulling together the finale of How I Met Your Mother, which used a by-no-means unexpected passing to tie up loose ends, and the real death of Tim Hetherington, the astounding documentary photographer whose life is the subject of Which Way Is The Front Line From Here?, in one TV column may seem crass. It probably is. But that’s how TV works, mashing together different stories, shifting tone more awkwardly than a local radio DJ... More »
4th, April 2014
Money
AS you'll know there's a move to get to the plain packaging of cigarettes. This is the rather strange idea that if we can't associate red with Marlboro and white with Silk Cut then we'll smoke fewer cigarettes overall. Quite why is never really explained but we are assured that it will be true... More »
