There are some words together that you just don’t expect to see in The Times. Dancing cat and ninja for example. An unsigned London Ska band who created a cult internet music video featuring a dancing cat dressed as a ninja is considering legal action …
Happy Holidays! Chances are, you’re reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that’s just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we …
This Christmas, DO forget to add your name tag. That’s the seasonal advice (reworded into the cheesy patter of a local newspaper) from the British Transport Police to graffiti fiends. London’s railways are regularly spammed with spray paint. And it all gets much worse over …
The radioactive saga continues with news bouncing all over the Internet this evening, but none of it seeming to get us any closer to who done it. One person not spilling his guts (this side of Christmas at least) is Litvinenko himself according to the …
As usual there’s so much cool stuff on at the ICA next month that we can’t list it all, but there were a couple of things that got us very excited: Year of the Sex Olympics: Nigel Quatermass Kneale‘s prediction of the future is one …
The results of the official investigation into just what happened to Princess Diana were released today. They make for depressingly mundane reading. No assassination, no fake death, no pregnany, no secret engagement, no plot full stop. Setting out the results of his three-year, high-profile report …
While we don’t seem to be able to turn on the television these days without seeing Kate Thornton or Vernon Kay peering on down at us, we never thought the day would come when a member of Blur who isn’t Damon Albarn would be over-exposing …
Sixty seconds on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday lunchtime beautifully encapsulated what English football is currently going through. The first forty-five seconds consisted of pained hand-wringing about foreign ownership, fans becoming increasingly helpless in the face of billionaire consortia and the increasingly predictable pecking order …
On Monday Charlie Brooker wrote a heart-felt piece for Comment is Free entitled When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells: The audiences that psychics prey on are equally infuriating, albeit less deserving of contempt. They’re just …
Tonight is the night when the dreams of millions of video game fans come true – it’s the long awaited launch of the interesting named Nintendo Wii. We’ve not been keeping as up to date as we should on the Wii, probably because we’re surrounded …
If for you Christmas isn’t really that special and you just end up pigging out all day before watching television bored (hang on! isn’t that everyone?), then maybe you should consider forgoing the Turkey and Nut Roast this year to help Crisis. Crisis is a …
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