3rd, October 2011
Key Posts
2 Have you been following the Daily Mail's news that the BBC has banned the use of BC and AD on dates? Did you know that the BBC has changed BC and AD to the more "politically correct" CE and BCE?... More »
3rd, October 2011
Money
Richard Desmond's Health Lottery is on the cover of Richard Desmond's Daily Star and Daily Express. In both places the wonder is illustrated by a photo of a smiling Simon Cowell... More »
3rd, October 2011
TV & Radio
3 More great nights out with Mike 'wild boar' Tindall... More »
3rd, October 2011
Key Posts
1 News is that Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are not cynical middle-aged stars using the X Factor to further their own careers as they snigger up their sleeves at hapless pop pretenders in a money-driven contest.... More »
2nd, October 2011
Key Posts
1 Occupy Wall Street In Photos: the revolution against corporate greed and other things will be televise, tweeted and posted on Macs... More »
2nd, October 2011
Flashback
On this Day in History: October 2, 1991 - Neil Kinnock becomes Leader of the Labour Party. At the Labour party conference in Brighton, the "dream ticket" of Kinnock and Roy Hattersley take the plaudits... More »
2nd, October 2011
Film
Was George Harrison the best of The Beatles? Was he a better singer than Paul McCartney and better songwriter,than John Lennon? Could he play the drums better than Ringo Starr. Ok, the last one's a given - but... More »
2nd, October 2011
TV & Radio
2 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal quote of the Day - presented by Sky Sports' Gary Neville on the oscasion of Van der Vaart's goal... More »
2nd, October 2011
Reviews
1 Occupy Wall Street is a movement stopping movement on the Brooklyn Bridge and other streets in New York City. It does not feature Radiohead.. More »
2nd, October 2011
Money
Even after controlling for education levels and work hours, a woman who took her husband’s name earns less -- €960 compared to €1156... More »
2nd, October 2011
Strange But True
1Are you one of the six men dressed as Swedish women * who fought at the Jailhouse Rock pub in Silver Street, Lincoln? In the course of the fight, one of the drag queens had a chair smashed over her his head... More »
2nd, October 2011
Strange But True
Meet Alex Karpenko. The 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with a sharpened metal shape... More »
2nd, October 2011
TV & Radio
We hear form a "neighbour who lives close to Goldie, her husband David Webb, 52, and two sons aged eight and ten in Lathom, West Lancashire". Can it be that Goldie is banned from talking to the media? And get a load of the language uses by his neighbour... More »
1st, October 2011
Key Posts
1 In Melnik, Czech Republic, crooks stabbed a hedgehog. They then called the Melnik Animal Rights Association refuge and reported seeing a stabbed hedgehog... More »
1st, October 2011
Strange But True
1 To Criccieth, Gwynedd town, where brothers Reuben and Dafydd Hughes, are passing the hottest day of the year lifting a massive stone weighting between 25-28 stones... More »
1st, October 2011
TV & Radio
I think we can take this advice to heart... More »
1st, October 2011
Money
1 Want to know what George Monbiot earns? The Guardian oput the news on its front page. He published a "registry of interests". Tim tells us that Monbiot earns £75,000 a year gross or thereabouts. More »
1st, October 2011
Reviews
1 The temperature of 29.9c (85.82f) in Gravesend, Kent was the hottest October day recorded since its records began in 1910, beating the previous record of 29.4C (84.9F) recorded on 1 October 1985, in March, Cambridgeshire... More »
1st, October 2011
Photojournalism
PHOTOS of the Day: presented by the Swiss Beauty pageant fail (light the fuse and step well back).... More »
1st, October 2011
Reviews
The 15 homes made from recycled static caravans on Edward Steel's Holme House Farm near Kendal in Cumbria have to be demolished. They do not have planning permission. Mr Steele tried to get it retrospectively, but was denied. Nineteen people still live in the homes. But they have to go... More »
1st, October 2011
Politicians
What odds that when Michelle Obama went along to a supermarket to stock up on vaseline, chips and dental floss an Associated Press photographer should just happen to be there to capture her ordinariness in high resolution images?... More »
1st, October 2011
Key Posts
What does Tom Ford's new scent smell of? Well, the advert in Russian GQ suggests it smells of rose petals and bum crack.,... More »
1st, October 2011
Key Posts
3 Anyone who visits Australia can not fail to be shocked and even mortified at the outright bigotry and vile racism which many (many, not all) Australians repeatedly show in private when talking of "blacks, Abos, drunken boongs... More »
To mark the launch [of the Tiangong-1 space lab], the Chinese space agency and China Central Television (CCTV) released a proud animation, set to rousing orchestral strains, of the "Heavenly Palace"... More »
1st, October 2011
TV & Radio
Don't worry - if the little lad falls off the bike, the car filming the ride will be on the scene - and on him - swiftly... More »
