Don’t Dumb Me Down pleads Ben Goldacre, decrying reporting of science stories, railing against straw humanities graduates misunderstanding and misreporting science stories
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Today’s front page main story which seems to show that humanit[…]

in 1823 william webb-ellis “with a fine disregard for the rules of foopball” picked up the ball and ran and invented rugby blah blah zzz
cricket was evolved out of rounders by an evil RPG-infested think-tank (interestingly but unsurprisi[…]

Difficult times for English football. As television revenues decline, players’ wages don’t. These same players, pampered and arrogant, inhabit the gossip pages of the newspapers more often than the sports pages. The public, irked by the p[…]

it has been proposed by a sarcastic workmate that my recent ear problems were imposed on me by the gods for the CRÅZY HÜBRIS of my FROGLOVE
i say a bing-bing pAH!![…]

For those of you who missed it last week: It’s The End Of Life As We Know It. But wait, great news for all our readers, with the abolition of the regular science supplement, the Guardian’s commitment to science actually improves. How, you[…]

Such was the summation of the criminal character by Bruce Wayne, just before he decided that dressing like a giant bat would clearly strike fear into their hearts. Of course Mr Batman has made a terrible error here. He has mistaken criminals for spor[…]

What is the most recent incidence of blacking up in cinema? Is it Ghandi? Is It Ali G? No it is in the film Hidalgo, a story of derring do, long distance horse races and shimmery, shimmery sands. And luckily for the PC Police (though PC = police to m[…]

I saw it from the corner of my eyes, in a story for the premiere issue of vogue:homme America, or what ever they are calling it. Surrounded by the usual, silly badly constructed grotesques the New York art world mistakes for finely crafted historical[…]

it wz my friend rae‘s bday yesterday and we met – and in the end et – at the covent garden hotel bar: we mostly drank a lot of (nice) white wine (on the whole i dislike white wine) and when we got hungry they served CRAZY EXPENSIVE […]

Because Lederhosen are just too uncomfortable for Oktoberfest, we introduce The Oktoberfest Frock. Now I cannot help but think that there is a clothing evolutionary midground that has been skipped to go from the ‘hosen to the skirt, but if its […]