Important BASH STREET KIDS news (following up on yesterday’s Lollards): it’s sadly too late – both in closing date and in age of readers terms – for FT staff to enter Blue Peter’s competition to “create a new Bash […]

As Crufts 2007 reaches its climax, the national and local press have been giving plenty of column space to doggy-related stories this week. It seems that the canine world can be pretty ruff sometimes. Oho! (more…)[…]

I didn’t like Dirrrrrrrty when I first heard it. Indeed I probably heard it about twenty times before I finally got it. And that is when I saw it. I remember exactly where this was. In a hotel room in Brussels, Belgium.
How many moments of your[…]

Major development for Captain America (for now, anyway). Cap – strangely for such an “iconic” creation – is probably the character who has changed the most, tonally, in my comics reading lifetime. This latest event seems pitc[…]

So the most e-mailed news story at the moment on the BBC News Website* is Reggae Reggae Sauce going on sale. Seen as a triumph for the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, one assumes this is not just a good confident businessman, but a nice sauce too. […]

xrrf tell us that 395,000 people have now registered for Glastonbury, ie, more people registered IN THE LAST WEEK, than in the four weeks it was open in the first place. Clearly the only PROPER FAIR WAY to sort this out is not let anyone who register[…]

Now we know how mental the BBC Talking Points get. So one would imagine the humorous and pithy answers a woman moving back to the UK from Australia after thirty years would get to the question “Has anything changed?” Oh the fun, the gags […]

Marks And Spencers new Steak and Blacksticks Blue sandwich – very rich, very flavoursome (and a lovely combination of tangy cheese, sweet onion relish and steak which manages to hold its own against both). Also very expensive – though it[…]

Last night I went to the Islington Academy and I saw:
Acoustical Big Fat Andy Cairns from Therapy?
Neds Atomical Dustbins
Some Bloke From The Doughboys
Reuben
The Senseless Things
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
And
Mega City Four (the remaining m[…]

as per lollardry yesterday, mp3 of caruso singing “vesti la giubba” HERE: this is conventionally regarded as the first million-selling record (though he recorded it more than once in the years for difft record companies 1902-03, and i ima[…]