Since Margaret Thatcher’s death, there have been plenty of people around the country celebrating. At impromptu parties in Glasgow and London, on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and on iPods from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, people have been rejoicing that Thatcher is no more. Respect MP […]

Maybe Mick Philpott had too much time on his hands, what with him not having a job. Perhaps that is why he came up with a plot to set fire to his own house so that he could rescue his children and blame the fire on his ex-girlfriend. If you […]

If our media were to be believed you’d think young people were either too complacent, lazy, self-obsessed, apolitical or too cowed to do anything about the government cuts raining down on us all. You could be forgiven for thinking that students have been doing nothing since the December 9, 2010 […]

HELP! Tits, Hooters, Jugs, Raisin Tassels, Bazookas (No, not the anti-veruca cream…) Fun-bags, Water-bags (really?!), Boobies, Breasts, the Twins (preferably identical, but never Siamese…), or whatever you want to call them, are being threatened! Well, not actually, just the ones on Page 3. But, could it really be true? Could […]

The investigation department of the Russian Interior Ministry brought new criminal charges against William Browder, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, alleging his involvement in illegal purchase of Gazprom shares. According to law enforcement agencies, the financier ran companies involved in the purchase […]

The other half and I went down to Greenwich the other day for a little outing marking our fourteen-month anniversary (yes, alright, we know we’re soppy).  Greenwich, for us as for a lot of the people of Britain, is one of the places that, even though the North-of-the-Riverers never venture […]

Yes, as bizarre as it may sound – the over-criminalisation of all sexual activity between minors, is almost wholly responsible for the UK’s high teenage pregnancy rate and high teenage sex rate. Why? S.13 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (by virtue of s.9) criminalised ‘sexual touching’ between minors, however […]

As Easter 2013 approaches us we take a look at the history of Easter, and we ask ourselves some questions about the. Such as, why do we have Easter Eggs? Who is the Easter Bunny? And why do we have Easter Egg Hunts? What is Easter? Easter is a holiday […]