29th, January 2014
Strange But True
9 To Brianza, a province in northern Italy, where a man has been arrested for adopting cats from a refuge centre and eating them. The man is no heathen: he first skinned and cooked the cats. He asked for "black cats with specific characteristics. They had to be around three years old, and quite plump.” ... More »
29th, January 2014
Strange But True
RANEA Crabtree of Pataskala, Ohio, is a keen follower of nominative determinism, the idea that your surname can shape your destiny... More »
29th, January 2014
Liverpool
1 DIEHARD Everton fan Matty Bowman has raised funds for desperately ill George Johnson, 4, by having the Liverpool’s club motto, You’ll Never Walk Alone, tattooed across his back. The deal was that if enough people pledged money for George, Matty would get the ink... More »
Today 'Maddie' is on the front page of the Daily Mirror... More »
29th, January 2014
Flashback
1 THE 1960s through the 1980s saw a flood of low budget albums released around the globe. It seemed all you needed to make a record was some loose change and poor decision making skills. Indeed, much of what landed on record store shelves can only be described as deeply regrettable.... More »
29th, January 2014
Money
1 Very little of a rise in the minimum wage actually gets to the working poor. This is because when the min wage rises so do the taxes that are taken from it. So also do the benefits paid to people fall... More »
28th, January 2014
Flashback
1 IN his book Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, Koudounaris records the bejewelled skeletons of Christian martyrs found in the catacombs under Rome in the late 16th century... More »
28th, January 2014
Reviews
1 YES, yes. We all know that cyclists can be really annoying. They sometimes run red lights on empty roads and mount the pavement when drivers can't... More »
28th, January 2014
TV & Radio
Take them away, Pharrell Williams... More »
28th, January 2014
Celebrities
There's a lot of people who can't see Prince, compared to those who have. With that, some grotty bootlegs - admittedly inferior to the real thing - allow those not fortunate enough, to experience Prince in the live arena. Right?.. More »
28th, January 2014
Reviews
The Daily Mail cares... More »
28th, January 2014
Key Posts
LAST night in New York Pete Seeger died. He was 94. The patrician captured the mood of the masses... More »
28th, January 2014
Photojournalism
What house? More »
28th, January 2014
In Pictures
SAN FRANCISCO as seen by Scott Weaver is an intricate glue-and-toothpick-made sculpture he calls Rolling through the Bay. Visitors are a pingpong ball, rolling though the city's landmarks and boroughs... More »
28th, January 2014
Money
However, there are two important points that we can make whatever our politics. The first is that London really is different from the rest of the UK. London is really a part of that great global economy that includes Tokyo, New York and so on. The rest of the UK is a pretty middling EU country... More »
28th, January 2014
Flashback
Taking a look at progress in technology as whole is much too broad; our heads will likely explode if we try and take it all in. Instead, let’s just look at your phone - that thin little rectangle you have in your pocket or are looking at right now… More »
27th, January 2014
Celebrities
ONCE upon a time Samuel Beckett was waiting for André the Giant, nee André Roussimoff... More »
27th, January 2014
In Pictures
IRIT Levav's Unchained series is a collection of life-size dog sculptures from old bicycle parts... More »
27th, January 2014
Reviews
CLAIMS that Dan Evans learnt how to hack phones at the Sunday Mirror before the News of the World recruited him for his skills is interesting... More »
27th, January 2014
Sports
CHELSEA Balls: Happy birthday Jose Mourinho, 51-years young. The journalists were there to see you work on your birthday, taking charge of Chelsea for their FA game with Stoke City... More »
27th, January 2014
Money
SO we're told by a report about international online trade: the UK has the world's largest trade surplus in it. Woo Hoo! Makes up for the fact, well, just a little bit, that we've been running trade deficits for as long as most of us have been alive. Here's the good news... More »
27th, January 2014
Celebrities
PEOPLE who want to listen to hip hop, but don't like it, like Macklemore. He is to rap music what Mumford & Sons are to folk. Of course, like the tweed troubadours, he's fantastically successful and he landed 4 Grammy Awards last night... More »
27th, January 2014
Books
Don't ask a pedestrian where a certain street is. He is usually too busy to stop, and if polite enough to stop, won't know. No New Yorkers knows anything about New York. Consult the Guide... More »
