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1st, October 2013 Money

If The Capitalists Ship Our Jobs To China They'll Be just Fine With The Minimum Wage, Right?

A very nice little piece of logic from Don Boudreaux over in the US. We do all agree that capitalists are swine, I hope? That profit is the only thing they care about?.. More »

1st, October 2013 Film

James McAvoy auditions for Jimmy Savile role at the Filth premiere

McAvoy would play Jimmy Savile if Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh ever penned a script about the sex predator... More »

1st, October 2013 Strange But True 1

Baby gives birth to its own twin (video)

Doctors say the foetus took up two thirds of Xiao’s stomach, which understandably caused all sorts of problems, includin breathing difficulties for the child... More »

1st, October 2013 Sports

Pardew continues mission to turn 'soulless' Newcastle into Arsenal lite

It's not the same when he does it... More »

1st, October 2013 Sports

Cardiff City fan Neil Kinnock is a football hooligan?

Neil Kinnock is a football hooligan..? More »

1st, October 2013 Flashback

1991: Nirvana's first televised performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Kurt is unplugged and contracted in a Radio Shack

In 1991, Nirvana appeared on MTV’s 120 Minutes to perform Smells Like Teen Spirit. Grunge went mainstream... More »

1st, October 2013 Strange But True

So. I found mum's high school year book

"Dear, Your Mum, I have admired your voluptuous , sexy body from afar..." More »

1st, October 2013 Strange But True

No Cat is Anorak's talking cat of the day

No cat says... More »

1st, October 2013 manchester united 1

Manchester United watch: Moyes is King of the Nowhere Men, Ander Herrera is exposed and the Glazers' pain

An at-a-glance look at United in today's news... More »

1st, October 2013 Arsenal

Manchester United used to practice kicking lumps out of the opposition's best player

Pope wears funny hat! Katie Price sleeps on back! And now in other news to shock and amaze: Phil Neville says Manchester United players Roy Keane, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes used to kick lumps out of the best players... More »

1st, October 2013 Celebrities 1

The 17 British sports legends and pop stars who owned their own shops

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1st, October 2013 Politicians

UKIP Nigel Farage as Hitler: volumes 1,2, und Third

Everyone gets to be Hitler... More »

1st, October 2013 Music

Snoopy stars in the Peanut Underground

Snoopy is Lou Reed, of course... More »

1st, October 2013 Flashback

'How We Do Things in Bald Knob, Arkansas', and other tall-tale vintage postcards

At the turn of the 20th Century, rural US cities and towns featured on Tall-Tale postcards. Each carried a picture of outlandish abundance... More »

1st, October 2013 Strange But True

Step-father and adult step-daughter arrested for incest have never been to Motherwell

Authorities in Nicholas County, West Virginia, say that it isn't. They've charged a step-father and his step-daughter with incest. The suspects are not related by blood... More »

1st, October 2013 In Pictures

Mum dresses her baby in doodle portraits of love

Let's play dress-ups... More »

30th, September 2013 In Pictures

The most incredible photographs of bees you will ever see

Sam Droege has the job of photographing the wildlife that arrives in a place that aims "to provide the information needed to better manage the nation's biological resources". He has taken lots of pictures of bees... More »

30th, September 2013 Technology

Are you ready for glow-in-the-dark trees?

How about if science creates trees that glow in the dark? No need for lamp-posts? That hedge along the motorway's central reservation makes night driving easier... More »

30th, September 2013 Sports

Sunderland: Di Canio allegedly spat in his own face and hoped fans attacked players with poo

Di Canio is said to have spat in his own face a few times after Sunderland’s defeat at West Brom; taking swigs of water, spraying it into the air, letting it fall on his face, rubbing it in and then yelling at his players “that is what you have done to me, spat in my face” before telling them all to do it to themselves... More »

30th, September 2013 Politicians 4

Irony overload: Greece follows up arrest of Nazi-loving Golden dawn by seizing immigrants

How we cheered when the GReek police arrested the Nazi-loving Golden Dawn MPs. More »

30th, September 2013 Money 1

If the minimum wage is such a great idea why do we punish those who don't pay it with a fine?

So, the argument is that paying the minimum wage is something good for business.. More »

30th, September 2013 The Consumer

The London Underground Tube Map in German

In German... More »

30th, September 2013 Technology

It's not just Apple's iOS 7 that causes motion sickness

Digitally induced motion sickness caused by iPhones, 3D films and computer games will become the biggest occupational illness of the 21st century, it has been claimed... More »

30th, September 2013 Sports 3

Arsenal: Mark Lawrenson looks in the Mirror for the fools who said Manchester United were going great and the Gunners were doomed

Mark Lawrenson is an expert... More »

30th, September 2013 manchester united 1

Manchester United watch: Moyes' paranoia, Liverpool relived and rejecting Ferguson's winners

United lose at home to West Bromwich Albion. Some shock... More »