28th, February 2012
Sports
Barnes wants to talk about racism in football to Daily Mail readers. Racism in football is so rare that a man in the crowd making a monkey noise can be arrested, and a player racially abusing an opponent leads to a ban that occupies the national news... More »
28th, February 2012
Reviews
5 Farewell Occupy London Stock Exchange. It never got all that close to the actual Stock Exchange but did find a more controversial pitch by St Paul’s Cathedral... More »
28th, February 2012
Flashback
There's nothing funny or trivial about bowel cancer. Or rather, there shouldn’t be. Which makes the current bowel cancer awareness campaign rather odd... More »
27th, February 2012
The Consumer
KLM Airline lets passengers scan Facebook profiles to see who else is on their plane. They can then chose a seat to best pester the pretty blonde thing, avoid the bearded man, get close to a few children and dodge the fat... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
News Story of the Week concerns the Mid Sussex Times report on the Boots in Haywards Heath that opende late. A note on the store's door said... More »
27th, February 2012
Celebrities
Chances of Billy Crystal getting a tenth hosting slot at the Oscars? Nil. Unless of course, the Academy wants to see interest in its show overtaken by the Grammies that is... More »
27th, February 2012
Strange But True
2 Was Jason Ketley attacked by a rat at a specialist care unit in St Ebba’s hospital, Epsom, Surrey?.. More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
BBC director-general Mark Thompson (Catholic, since you ask) says in an interview for the Free Speech Debate, a research project at Oxford University, that Christianity gets satirised and mocked more than other religions because it is "pretty broad shouldered"... More »
27th, February 2012
Politicians
2 In this video, German leader Angela Merkel get a glass or more of beer poured down her neck. No. Not like Bob Hawk... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
The Costa Allegra, eight-deck-high, 620ft-long sister ship to the Costa Concordia, is adrift without power, reports say... More »
27th, February 2012
The Consumer
6 Can insects be the future for cheap protein, that wonderful thing of the post-War years?... More »
27th, February 2012
Celebrities
As for Jolie, well, she finally put paid to the rumours that she keeps her legs together to prevents more babies tumbling out... More »
27th, February 2012
The Consumer
Just to give you an example it's as if the entire UK ignores Fairtrade entirely and but Dudley (yes, that one, in the West Midlands, about 200,000 people) buys nothing but Fairtrade. In the context of things it's nothing, a rounding error... More »
27th, February 2012
Sports
Dean's a Liverpool fan, reportedly... More »
27th, February 2012
Celebrities
5 Cancer is a terrible, awful disease. When celebrities get it, they immediately become brave whereas civilians are just dreadfully unlucky. What about when the two worlds collide? Well, Taylor Swift is seeing to that... More »
27th, February 2012
Madeleine McCann
2 Katrice is missing and Martin Ney is in the frame... More »
27th, February 2012
Key Posts
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has produced a book of photos of World War II against the same locations today... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
2 Joan Juliet Buck has been on the Piers Morgan CNN show. Buck is the author of the god-awful “Rose in the Desert” profile on Syria's Asma al-Assad that appeared in Vogue... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
1 Xavier Alvarez lied “that he rescued the American ambassador during the Iranian hostage crisis”. He lied when he said he played professional hockey and married a Mexican starlet. He said he had been a marine. The US had heard enough... More »
27th, February 2012
Photojournalism
When old people rebel, starring The Pope and grandma Zelda... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
3 Church have accepted damages (£300,000) and costs of £300,000 from the News of the World's publisher, News International... More »
27th, February 2012
Reviews
1 Lucy Lawless formerly Xena Princess Warrior, has been arrested for spending three days on a Shell oil ship Noble Discoverer with other Greenpeace activists... More »
