A Tribute To Backstreet Snooker Halls
[img via]Stop your internal dialogue. I know it can get fucking boring on telly. But trust me, that’s a different game; a sanitised, squeaky-clean imitation of the very real thing. And snooker’s home...
View ArticleGiant Octopus Tries To Escape Tank And Kill Humans
This is so funny. Listen how quickly the laughs from the excited crowd turn into cries from the children as the octopus flips its slimy tentacle over the edge of the tank. "I want to go home now...
View ArticleBrighton's Best Hangover - Busting Breakfasts
It’s said that breakfast is the day’s most important meal, and that edict’s never truer than when you’re being battered on all sides by a day-altering hangover. That breakfast is the jump-off point: it...
View ArticleA Beginner's Guide To Pre-Packed Supermarket Sandwiches
Boots hoisin duck wrapEver wondered what two clogs filled with horse meat taste like? If you enjoy chewing, and the strange combination of spring onions and jam, you’ll love this quite frankly haunting...
View ArticleThis Man's Collection Of Vintage Radios Is Incredible
As the cult of minimalism gathers in pace, driven in part by smaller urban living spaces and better integrated technology, it's easy to forget the pleasure to be taken in 'stuff'. Old football...
View ArticleThe Dead Can't Talk: Gritty Crime Fiction Set In Hull
The long denigrated Northern English port city of Hull is undergoing a physical and psychological refurbishment in preparation for its 2017 stint as the “UK City of Culture”. On the face of it, leading...
View ArticleThe 6 Detestable Elements Of Modern Weddings
[img via] Of course some ceremonies are small, intimate, beautiful and the stuff of cherished memories but so many couples these days render me speechless with either one or more of the...
View ArticleInside IS: The Day I Looked Jihadi John In The Eye
Jürgen Todenhöfer is a German author, politician and former judge. His latest book “Ten Days in the Islamic State: My Journey in the Heart of Terror” is an enthralling and thought-provoking account of...
View ArticleHere's Why Brexit Myths About Immigration Are Wrong
[Img via]It is not yet clear whether the old rock & roll saying “the devil has all the best tunes” applies to EU referendums too. The Remain campaign has all of the facts and the best friends a...
View ArticleDFS Unveil Video Series With Team GB Athletes
This is a paid for advertorial with DFSAthletes, gym junkies and everyone who's into fitness goes through gruelling workouts to condition their body. While there are a lot of benefits to working out...
View ArticleReview: Leeds Lads by Anthony Clavane and Nick Stimson
Authors Clavane and Stimson previously collaborated on a play of Clavane’s ‘sports book of the year’ Promised Land, about the changing fortunes of Leeds Utd and the city the team represents. This time,...
View ArticleSix Must-Read Books About World War One
If your only impression is through the, admittedly fantastic, Blackadder Goes Forth or Alan Clarke’s book The Donkeys you’d be forgiven for believing it was nothing more than a futile and wasteful war...
View ArticleA Very Sicilian Justice: Meet The Man Who Took On The Mafia
Hero is an overused word nowadays. But Sicilian Judge Antonino Di Matteo is unequivocally a hero.Toby Follett and Paul Sapin’s stunning documentary, “A Very Sicilian Justice” (narrated by Helen Mirren...
View Article10 Of The Deadliest Drinks Known To Man
So, it's late, you're not totally sure where you are, and your friend is ordering some drink you've never heard of for you. He's insisting that he was told by someone, who heard from their uncle, who...
View ArticleD.B. Cooper: The World’s Greatest Hijacker
Forty years ago, a man known only as D.B. Cooper boarded a flight in Portland, ordered a bourbon and soda, lit a cigarette, handed a note to a stewardess announcing a hijacking, and -- after a...
View ArticleMeet The British Man Who Left His House And Business To Fight ISIS
Until early 2015, Tim Locks lived a comfortable life running his successful construction business and enjoying the swimming pool it had enabled him to incorporate into his home. Like most of us he was...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Condiments Of All-Time
Before I launch into this list let’s clear the pathway to ensure a smooth ride by defining the word “condiment”. The dictionary will tell you it’s an umbrella term that includes everyday sprinkling...
View ArticleFallen Glory: History's 5 Greatest Lost Buildings
5. The Hippodrome of ConstantinopleThe Roman Empire was responsible for some of history’s greatest displays of architectural grandeur, power, arrogance – and even vulgarity. It exported buildings...
View ArticleConfessions Of A Muslim Squaddie Part 2: Denouncing The War Took Real Bravery
RAF Brize Norton, England, 2003. Brize Norton looked like any other airport; big warehouses and one-way roads except all the people who worked there wore RAF blue and all of us who were flying out...
View ArticleA Good Month For Murder: The Inside Story Of A Homicide Squad
As Del explained to me, his first challenge was gaining the acceptance of the homicide squad’s detectives. “At first they were not super-excited to have me there – they don’t like outsiders much – but...
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