28th, February 2014
The Consumer
Monika Eckfield, a professor of physiological nursing at California State University, San Francisco, concurs that many hoarding patients struggle with processing information. To avoid the anxiety of throwing something away, they simply put off the decision to do so... More »
28th, February 2014
Books
ANORAK's history of Controversial children's books: sex, drugs, sambo's gay lover and anti-authoritarianism in the classroom... More »
28th, February 2014
Reviews
1 HOW'S that US War on Drugs working out?Well, prisons have never had it so good... More »
28th, February 2014
Flashback
1 FLASHBACK to November 1980. We’ve trawled the archives to bring you a look at life in that month. All captions are the original AP and PA ones, written in the style of the time... More »
28th, February 2014
Film
6 I VERY happily grew up with Sir Roger Moore in the role of Ian Fleming’s James Bond, and thus maintain a deep well of affection and nostalgia for his seven films…even if some Bond fans do not Moore’s epoch as Agent 007 isn’t usually considered the most creatively fertile time in the franchise’s history, in part because the Bond films of the day pursued “hot” movie trends instead of initiating them, as had been the case in the 1960s... More »
28th, February 2014
Celebrities
He grew up in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, but he doesn't recognise it anymore. It was all fields when he was a lad... More »
27th, February 2014
Flashback
In is essay The Chop On The Upbeat, John Jeremiah Sullivan looks at the birth of the music that makes you dance - and anyone can dance well to... More »
27th, February 2014
manchester united
3 Dear mug.... More »
Time travels for holes... More »
27th, February 2014
Music
You see, Katy’s new video for Dark Horse has been criticised by religious groups for being blasphemous!... More »
THERE'S an argument around and about the place that paying benefits to poor people just ends up as a subsidy to the people who pay them scummy wages. The argument being that as the taxpayer is picking up part of the bill of keeping body and soul together then the employer can get away with paying peanuts... More »
26th, February 2014
Reviews
5 Adebolajo charged at officers. He was armed with a large blade. He gets close - just two feet away - from a female armed response police officer who was driving a BMW X5. A male colleague in the rear seats fires his machine-gun through his window at the murderer, hitting him twice. He was not killed.... More »
26th, February 2014
Flashback
13 I HESITATED using the word “worst” since many of these are novelty songs, which are intentionally strange or humorous rather than attempting to be a genuinely serious musical composition. However, that doesn’t erase the fact that they, like all the songs in this list, are simply unlistenable, intolerable, and unbearable. These songs are so bad you will be tempted to escape and click your “back” button. But I encourage you to see it through – press on, and see what sort of stuff you’re made of. More »
26th, February 2014
Celebrities
Tonight - for one night only - One Direction's Louis Tomlinson became a footballer, turning out for Doncaster reserves at the Keepmoat Stadium... More »
TO Dayton, Ohio, where bus driver Ricky Wagoner, 49, has been shot once in the leg and twice in the Bible in his breast pocket. More »
26th, February 2014
Technology
ARE you planning to wear Google Glasses? If you are, let it not go unsaid that you have found a way to look even sadder than the knobs smoking electronic cigarettes that light up at the end... More »
26th, February 2014
Flashback
ON this day in photos - February 26 1993: At 12:18 local time a large car bomb exploded at New York's World Trade Center killing six people and injuring 100 more. The bomb tore through three floors of concrete. It triggered a fire in one of the towers... More »
26th, February 2014
Key Posts
Obama makes reading the autocue look pretty easy. After all, reading and aloud is something you learn to do when you're a toddler. If you can make a living out of it, more power to you. But you are at the mercy of technology and grammar.... More »
26th, February 2014
Music
WHEN someone in Hip Hop does something bad, it gets blanket coverage. Papers will run stories about artists big in the rap game, but not exactly household names. Worse still for those that are well known. They're hauled over coals and every two-bit writer starts penning opinion pieces on whether or not Hip Hop is inherently bad, while offering mealy-mouthed "hey, some of my best friends are rap albums!" by way of cred-seeking... More »
WE'RE well used to hearing stories about how the tech companies, Apple, Google and the like, are dodging taxes all over Europe. But people are starting to realise that it's not just that sector. Many other multinationals are indulging in very much the same behaviour... More »
26th, February 2014
Strange But True
2 IS the birth of a new craze? Police in Lancashire are seeking a m an and a women who accosted a shop worker at the Accrington Asda supermarket with a wet bream... More »
26th, February 2014
Flashback
SOBS and moans filled the air from Plymouth to Plymouth Rock, from York to New York, from Wales to New South Wales, from Surrey to Salford. Even a few people in the city of Manchester could be heard above the general laughter. So many questions were raised by Manchester United’s performance in Greece this week that we’ll restrict ourselves to just one. Is it the reds’ worst defeat of the modern era?... More »
26th, February 2014
Reviews
GET a load of those Swastikas etched onto the walls of Chelmsford's County Hall, built between 1928 and 1939 by J Stuart of Portland stone. A member of the public has lodged a Freedom of Information request asking why it "was still commissioned given the symbol's negative connotations". Essex County Council has yet to answer... More »
26th, February 2014
Flashback
1 WAS Cassius's Clay shock victory over Sonny Liston in the heavyweight championship of the world a fix? Clays had been 7-1 to defeat the reigning champion, who was backed by the mob.Ali won by technical knock-out when Liston remained in his corner at the start of the seventh round... More »
