The 10 Best Ways To Eat A Pig
Some people don’t eat this stuff for various religious reasons and others just don’t like it, but to absolutely everyone else pork is both the greatest roast and your most versatile friend in the...
View ArticlePhotographs Only Boys Take
1: The Drag Shot Any one of my friends who plays rugby will instantly dress up as a girl, at any given opportunity. Why do you do this lads? Is it the feel of the softer material on your skin? The...
View ArticleHow To Talk Like People On The Internet, Part 2
It hardly seems like a moment has passed since we first told you how to talk if you want to be cool on the internet, but time keeps knocking on the door like the police at Dave Lee Travis’ house, and...
View ArticleGorilla Goes Mad And Launches Itself At Family
Remember when that giant octopus tried to climb over and escape its tank earlier this year? That was scary in a weird sci-fi kind of way. This is scary in a "you've got precisely one second to live"...
View ArticleMidnight Terror: The Story Of Welsh Vigilantes 'The Scotch Cattle'
These days we understand how it works. We realise that we’re all just individual nodes of productivity. That we’re paid for what we’re worth – which isn’t much. We accept that the only worthwhile...
View ArticleAdolf Hitler And The Third Reich: The Top 10 Conspiracy Theories
1) Hitler Died In Argentina The latest rumour to be circulating is that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in Berlin in 1945, but actually ended his days in Argentina. According to British...
View ArticleI Was Massively Underprepared For The Adult Video Network Awards
It might have been the combination of jet lag, dehydration or hunger, but being stood on the red carpet at the Adult Video Network Awards was making me feel rather unwell...I thought I’d chance my arm...
View ArticleTales Of A Strip Club On Valentine's Night
When I talk about stripping I sometimes find I’m forced into a defensive position. People outside the industry who are very vocal about the job tend to have a low opinion of the work. We are...
View ArticleThe Valentine's Day A Pervert Stuck His Thumb In My Eye (And 7 Other Tales Of...
The day a pervert stuck his lubricated thumb into my eye by Geraint Anderson About twelve years ago a girlfriend from my school days who I hadn't seen for years called up and invited me round for a...
View ArticleLudger Sylbaris: The Man Who Survived The Apocalypse
You may not have heard the name Ludger Sylbaris before, but his story is astonishing and so unbelievable that you would only expect to have come from a Hollywood film maker’s imagination.Born in 1875...
View ArticleKolymsky Heights By Lionel Davidson
I stumbled across this stunning adventure novel by chance. The flatmate of a friend said she’d been given it in a book club and hated it, she couldn’t see the point of it, I could have it if I wanted,...
View ArticleSoho Coffee Bars Of The 1950s
Here's a brilliant short documentary from 1959 showing some of London's coffee bars in full swing. 2i's, The Macabre, The Stockpot, Sam Widges and more. Continue reading
View Article8 Things That Go Through Your Mind In The Back Of A Serco Van
For those lucky enough not to know, Serco vans are the sizeable white people carriers built for transporting prisoners from the court to their new home. If you live in London you've probably passed one...
View ArticleYou Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat)By Andrew Hankinson (Scribe books)Very occasionally a book comes along that just stops you in your tracks and you find yourself glued...
View ArticleCarwyn S. Hale: The Most Powerful Welshman You've Never Heard Of
I’d be willing to place a significant wager on the fact you’ve never heard of Carwyn S. Hale. A wager of the magnitude that catapulted Hale’s to power and fortune, and ultimately allowed him to mould...
View ArticleWhy The Syrian Ceasefire Creates Serious Threats To The UK
Many Western people and politicians, particularly in Britain, were reluctant to get involved in another Middle Eastern entanglement when the Syrian uprising broke out five years ago. Those who led us...
View ArticleRemembering The Golden Age Of Armed Robbery
Bruce Reynolds’ funeral, which took place in 2013, was a funny old affair. Filling the pews of St Bartholomew the Great were actors David Thewlis and Ray Stevenson. Mick Jones out of the Clash was...
View ArticleThe 10 Greatest Pies In Britain
As a resident of the official pie capital of the country and home of the World Pie Eating Championships (Wigan) I have always had a strong awareness in the local fascination with pastry products. Yet...
View ArticleMurf The Surf: Jewel Thief, Murderer & Twisted American Hero
On the evening of October 29th 1964, Peter Jack Murphy and two other accomplices broke into New York's Museum of Natural History and stole a host of gems in what the press would later call 'the jewel...
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