The Ten Greatest Penny Sweets Of All Time
There was a time when racing raindrops down a car window was a genuine source of entertainment for bored school kids on a Wednesday afternoon. It was a different time, a time when you’d count the...
View ArticleWhat People Say On SpareRoom.com And What They Really Mean
This feature originally appeared on the very ace Work In Prowess In 2011, my first year in London, I somehow wound up living on a futon in a fortune-teller’s spare room. I say “fortune-teller” because...
View ArticleHow To Summon The Devil Using Household Items
Firstly prepare your ritual space. You will need a non-absorbent floor surface so a kitchen or utility room is ideal but do make sure the washing machine or dryer are not operating as this can disrupt...
View ArticleThe North West's Answer To Sgt Slaughter Was The Greatest Person I Ever...
Without a job my summer was over before it had started. The overdraft had run dry and the student loan wasn’t due for months. At the time my mate was working for a local maintenance firm, titivating...
View ArticleA Genius Has Created A Website To Help You Avoid Paying Parking Tickets
18 year old Brit Joshua Browder has come up with an ingenious way of fighting unfair parking tickets, by creating a website which automatically generates a customised appeal form to send to the...
View ArticleThe Dark Carnival: Portraits From Clubland's Underbelly
Clubland is in the news again. Everywhere you turn councils are revoking late licenses. You can't walk down the street playing a grime track without the police trying to shut you down for holding a...
View ArticleWhat I Learnt From Living Undercover In The US Prison System
What is it like to go to jail in the USA? Is it really a case of fight or fuck? Life behind bars is always presented as a combination of clichés in films and television shows, clichés that clearly...
View ArticleTitanic Thompson: Introducing America's Greatest Ever Gambler
By the time Titanic Thompson was called as a witness in the 1929 murder trial of Arnold Rothstein - the ‘Moses’ of Jewish gangsters responsible for fixing the 1919 ‘Black Sox’ World Series - he had...
View ArticleThe Greatest Thing I Ever Ate: Soy Glazed Mackerel In The Tokyo Backstreets
It's not easy, picking one meal or snack as the single best thing you've ever eaten. Not just because you (or certainly me) eat so much, more that depending on your emotional or physical state...
View ArticleSeabrook Crisps: An Appreciation
2.30pm on a Friday afternoon is a funny time. You can hear the pub calling but are trapped in the realization that you still have five hours work to do in three. You need crisps. I sauntered off into...
View ArticleMeet Trevor Ablett, The Last Pocket Knife Maker In Britain
It started with one, 700 years ago. A solitary cutler first plying his trade in Sheffield. And so it ends with one. A single master cutler, laying aside his craft, after more than 21,000 days at the...
View Article7 Britons We Should Send To Mars To Start A Colony
In case you missed the news this week, water has been found on Mars. It won't be long until there's a Foxtons and a Pret up there, so here are a few suggestions for who we should be sending to suss...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Meats I've Eaten Since Quitting Vegetarianism
Until this time last year I had been a vegetarian for 21 years, from the age of 5. My reasons for being so for such a long time were numerous- foremost among them sensitivity to the act of consuming...
View ArticleIncredible Footage Of Couple Swallowed Up By Sink Hole
Ever wished the ground would just open up and swallow you whole? You won't after seeing this footage from South Korea. A 3m sinkhole opened up at a train station beneath this couple, who were stuck...
View Article10 Crap Animals That Wouldn't Make The Ark Today
It’s been millions of years since a young middle class bohemian lad called Noah was instructed by God or Buddha or Allah to build a huge boat out of wood and gather up all of the species on the planet...
View ArticleUri Geller: I Was A Psychic CIA Spy
#501088911 / gettyimages.com Almost forty years ago in a laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute, Uri Geller dumbfounded a group of scientists with his apparent ability to read minds. They could...
View ArticleWhat The Remote Indian Village Of Totopara Taught Me About Death
Totopara, like many villages around the world, doesn’t have or need a filter for the well-meaning, sheltered and squeamish. The walls we have put up in the developed world to protect ourselves from...
View ArticlePrisons, Punks and Thieving: An Interview With A Man Utd Terrace Legend
Coming together at the dawn of the 80s, Man UTDs travelling hooligan faction 'The Inter City Jibbers' (jib is Manc for blag) partied and pillaged their way around Europe and beyond. It was the era in...
View ArticleThe 10 Greatest Cakes Of All Time
In a supply and demand sense food has always been and always will be fashionable. People have to eat. But last year saw certain foods elevated to superstar status. Thanks to all sorts of angular tweed...
View ArticleChina's State Visit Shows How Far Britain Has Sunk On The World Stage
As a young diplomat at the British Embassy in Bucharest in the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution, I found a collection of embarrassing photos stuffed down the back of a cupboard. These were of the...
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