2nd, January 2014
The Consumer
It is with a heavy heart that I must put this invaluable relic of culinary excellence up for sale, as there is only so much power that one man can wield for so long. Many moons ago, I unwittingly bought this magical forge of nourishment from a sand swept bazaar named 'Barbecues Galore'... More »
2nd, January 2014
Celebrities
James Robertson is helping the Daily Mirror gain ground on Bullshit.com by wrapping a lot of words around wrapping a story around Cheryl Cole's Instagram photo.The headline tells readers: 'Cheryl Cole celebrates New Year by kissing the luckiest boy in the entire world'... More »
One of the claims that was made over the break was that the NSA, the US crypto spies, could hack into anyone's iPhone any time. This was all as a result of the Edward Snowden documents of course. The sad thing about this is that it was rather blown up out of proportion by one Jacob Appelbaum, one of the hangers on along with Glen Greenwald and Laura Poitras, around those Snowden documents... More »
2nd, January 2014
Reviews
On January 1, 2013 my phone escaped me and somehow fell into the hands of a man with a killer mustache. Thanks to Apple and some kinks in the cloud, I receive all of his pictures in my photo stream. Here are his selfies as re-enacted by yours truly... More »
2nd, January 2014
Sports
Solskjaer could've gone to Aston Villa - a much more sensible outfit - in 2012, but he refused, instead preferring to work with an absolute maniac at Cardiff... More »
2nd, January 2014
Music
Cut Savile out of the edit and celebrate the music and you're left with a wonderful and, one of the most comprehensive documents of the British pop charts. Celebrating TOTP isn't making excuses for Savile. In fact, leave him out of it entirely and you wouldn't even miss him... More »
2nd, January 2014
Money
They're whining about how train fares are going up again: and as usual, they're managing to get entirely the wrong end of the stick. Here's their complaint about fares... More »
2nd, January 2014
Strange But True
"We smelled it and everything - it looked okay.We peeled off the cushions, cleaned it up, never saw anything," says Holly wright of the sofa she found in the street in Grand Rapids, Michigan... More »
2nd, January 2014
Politicians
Do you shape the news to fit your agenda? Do you see in every news story the chance to bang a drum for what it you believe in or desire? In his "2013 - the year in review. Peter Popham writer in the Independent of Nelson Mandela... More »
2nd, January 2014
Reviews
How did you know when 2014 had arrived? What singled the change? Was it a text from your mum? A kiss from a waiter? Or were you stood in Kennett Square in Chester County, Pennsylvania, waiting for the eight feet wide and 7½ feet tall illuminated mushroom to drop from a crane at the stroke of midnight?... More »
2nd, January 2014
TV & Radio
1 Brett played Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jnr. played an action hero using the name Sherlock Holmes. That’s where we’ve got with the Stephen Moffat/Mark Gatiss fan fiction-take Sherlock. While the first series of their gripping adventure series was closely yoked to Conan Doyle’s original tales, the stories started to diverge in Series 2... More »
2nd, January 2014
Flashback
To make in the music biz and get some publicity, it used to be a requirement to take some “professional” photographs for local newspapers, magazines, and venue posters. Trouble is, thirty to forty years later someone like me is going to share them with the world. Chances are, your press photos are a tad on the awkward side, and I’ll have a snarky comment or two. Shake it off. It’s all in good fun. Maybe you can even point and laugh at the other bands... More »
2nd, January 2014
Key Posts
PETER “Snakebite” Wright and his ensemble of brightly tinted mohawk created by his wife, Timmy Mallet's cast-offs and an open-mouthed snake painted on the side of his head were not enough to win the PDC World Championship... More »
1st, January 2014
manchester united
TAXI! More »
1st, January 2014
Money
The redistribution... More »
1st, January 2014
Books
1st, January 2014
Strange But True
1 What makes this six-second movie so utterly horrific?... More »
1st, January 2014
Key Posts
2 This column exists to check the lies, half-truths and propaganda balls spouted by The Daily Mail but will happily turn its attention to other repeat offenders too including The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Express, The Guardian, The Independent and my old home, The Daily Telegraph... More »
1st, January 2014
Key Posts
The best, funniest and rudest readers' letters of 2013... More »
1st, January 2014
Key Posts
"The pubs all had a ‘no dogs, no Irish, no blacks’ policy. And black people didn’t want to listen to white music, anyway. Then a gentleman I know opened a pub [The Criterion] and welcomed black people, and I could listen to music we’d never heard before. These people saw a gap in the market because black people weren’t welcome anywhere else..." More »
1st, January 2014
Sports
Queen's Park Rangers fanzine AKUTR'S has a cover featuring injured Alejandro Faurlin on the front and a funeral directors on the back. A spot of gallows humour... More »
31st, December 2013
Celebrities
Star of wonder, star of might... More »
31st, December 2013
Flashback
12 What Did Palestine look like before 14 May 1948, when the State of Israel declared Independence? We've raided the archives. All captions are the originals. They tell their own story... More »
31st, December 2013
Celebrities
In 1977, Jackson met Ali... More »
Part of the reason Americans don’t understand class might be because true inequity is so excessive that we might well characterize it as unfathomable. That’s because one cannot show in any reasonable format, whether in print or on the web, both the wide distribution of people who have virtually no money, and the amount of money possessed by a very, very small portion of rich people... More »
