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  • Real British soldiers interview the stars of 1917

    Real British soldiers interview the stars of 1917

    The war epic has been tipped for an Oscar Sam Mendes’ new war epic 1917 has stunned audiences since hitting cinema screens, with its one-take style and fraught tone lending to the praise that the film has received for its depiction of war. The film depicts two soldiers who are handed seemingly impossible orders to cross […]

    6 years ago

  • Can this man beat the Triple Chilli Challenge?

    Can this man beat the Triple Chilli Challenge?

    How much food could you eat in ten minutes? Ten minutes isn’t a massive amount of time. It’s not too much time to wait for a bus, most podcasts or TV shows are roughly three times longer than it and it’s less time than most types of food take to cook in an oven. In […]

    6 years ago

  • Northern Fail: Railways, nationalisation and the United Kingdom

    Northern Fail: Railways, nationalisation and the United Kingdom

    Railway in the north is not in great shape In late January it was announced that Northern Rail, the company which had control over the north of England’s rail network, would be brought under government control. In other words, it will be nationalised. Once the envy of the rest of the world, Britain’s regional railway […]

    6 years ago

  • Everything you need to know about coronavirus, from an expert

    Everything you need to know about coronavirus, from an expert

    At present, the number of cases of the disease in China is above 20,000 Since the beginning of the year health officials across the world have been on high alert over a form of virus first encountered in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Hebei province. The novel coronavirus is believed to have come […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: JOE Media Survey

    Terms and Conditions: JOE Media Survey

    Terms and Conditions: JOE Media Survey Prize details: 1x £50 Amazon gift voucher Terms and Conditions To enter the competition users must complete the JOE Media survey on the Survey Monkey platform and enter their email address. The competition opens at 9am on 05.02.2020 and closes at 12pm on 26.02.2020 (GMT). 1x Winner will be […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations Prize details: 3x pairs of 2x tickets Scotland vs England – Guinness Six Nations 2020, BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, United Kingdom on Saturday 08 February 2020 16:45 Terms and Conditions To enter the competition on Twitter entrants need to retweet the competition tweet, posted by @JOE_co_uk, on Instagram entrants […]

    6 years ago

  • Over and out – Brexiteers celebrate Brexit Day in Parliament Square

    Over and out – Brexiteers celebrate Brexit Day in Parliament Square

    And then there were 27 It’s happened. It’s finished (kind of). The United Kingdom is exiting the European Union, three and a half years after the 2016 referendum. Brexiteers travelled to Parliament Square in their droves, draped in Union Jacks and dripping in national pride, to mark B Day. As the clock ticked down, there […]

    6 years ago

  • Watching Studio Ghibli for the first time with your partner

    Watching Studio Ghibli for the first time with your partner

    Introducing your significant other can go one of two ways It’s always a risk, trying to introduce your partner to a new how or a new genre of film, especially early on. A bad reaction could sour things, a positive reaction could make the spark burn brighter. Equally, it sometimes doesn’t matter. You can have […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Win tickets to watch Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Cafe

    Terms and Conditions: Win tickets to watch Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Cafe

    Prize details: 2x pairs of 2x tickets to watch San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City chiefs in Super Bowl LIV at the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus, London, on Sunday 2nd Feb 2020. Terms and Conditions To enter the competition on Twitter entrants need to retweet the competition tweet, posted by @JOE_co_uk. Entrants must […]

    6 years ago

  • Black Pudding: The most underrated part of a Full English?

    Black Pudding: The most underrated part of a Full English?

    Wheat, barley, pig’s fat and pig’s blood That’s all that goes into black pudding, a blood sausage delicacy that has been around as long as humans have been keeping and farming livestock. Despite its enduring popularity, however, particularly in the Midlands, North West and Scotland, it isn’t for everyone. There is no more obvious litmus […]

    6 years ago

  • What’s the healthiest meal deal you can buy in supermarkets?

    What’s the healthiest meal deal you can buy in supermarkets?

    We scoured the supermarkets for a lunch high in protein but low in calories, saturated fat and salt Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself. Sometimes meal prep for the entire week isn’t an option. Sometimes life, in the form of a busy schedule, or more likely an evening spent in the pub, just gets […]

    6 years ago

  • Zigi Shipper: Surviving Auschwitz

    Zigi Shipper: Surviving Auschwitz

    Zigi Shipper was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 In 1944, when he was just a boy, Zigi Shipper was one of over a million Jews sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Here he shares his astonishing story, from being forced out of his home in Łódź, Poland and into a ghetto, to the horrors of the death camp, […]

    6 years ago

  • Speedo Mick: Walking Britain in his swimming trunks for charity

    Speedo Mick: Walking Britain in his swimming trunks for charity

    If you’ve watched Everton in recent years, you’ll have seen him Speedo Mick has been a regular fixture at Everton matches in recent years, and you’ve almost certainly spotted him whether you’ve been at the stadium or watching from home. Unsurprisingly, television cameras often find themselves turned towards the fan in his speedos during match broadcasts, […]

    6 years ago

  • The secret to making the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich

    The secret to making the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich

    Think you know how to make a good grilled cheese? Think again Like most food, it’s easy to make an average grilled cheese sandwich, but to make a really spectacular one takes something special. It takes time, it takes consideration, it takes knowledge and it takes good ingredients. You could get a shitty loaf of […]

    6 years ago

  • Embark on a tour of London’s weirdest houses

    Embark on a tour of London’s weirdest houses

    London has a lot of houses With a population of roughly nine million, London understandably has plenty of homes. Most of these are normal buildings with regular proportions and a sensible amount of windows. Others, however, are not. For every dozen normal houses in the English capital, there’s at least one really peculiar one, the […]

    6 years ago

  • The child refugee separated from his only living family member

    The child refugee separated from his only living family member

    Can you imagine being cut adrift from your entire family, with no way to reach them? This scenario will sound like an otherworldly nightmare for most of us. Being ripped apart from our loved ones and left to fend for ourselves is something that the vast majority of us have only witnessed on film. The […]

    6 years ago

  • How to make the ultimate steak sandwich

    How to make the ultimate steak sandwich

    Everyone loves a sandwich Sandwiches are probably the most basic type of food you can eat, aside from simply picking up a slice of ham, a tomato, or a head of lettuce and eating them themselves. It is an item, or a number of items, between two slices of bread, and it is great. Aside from your […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: WWE House Party

    Terms and Conditions: WWE House Party

    Prize details: Five pairs of tickets to a WWE House Party on the 15th January Held at the BT Sport studios in London To enter the competition, retweet the competition post and follow JOE (@JOE_co_uk) and @BTSportWWE on Twitter The competition  closes at 17:00 on Friday 10th of January 2020 (GMT). Five winners will be chosen. […]

    6 years ago

  • How to open a beer bottle when you don’t have a bottle opener

    How to open a beer bottle when you don’t have a bottle opener

    Sometimes the universe conspires against us Most of us have been there. You have a bottle containing some kind of alcoholic liquid, be it beer or cider or some other drink we’ve not even heard about yet, and you want to open it. You open your kitchen drawer and realise that you either cannot find […]

    6 years ago

  • The terrifying scale of Australia’s bush fires

    The terrifying scale of Australia’s bush fires

    According to estimates, close to half a billion animals have been killed as a result of the fires Australia is no stranger to bush fires, but the devastation it has been experiencing since the later months, and which is expected to get worse further into the New Year, has prompted questions at the country’s climate […]

    6 years ago

  • Here’s how to perfectly wrap your Christmas presents this year

    Here’s how to perfectly wrap your Christmas presents this year

    Wrapping presents is easy, wrapping them well is very hard Most of us enjoy buying gifts for the people we love, their delight when receiving them and their joy when opening them. What most don’t enjoy though is actually wrapping those gifts. It’s something that in theory seems a no brainer in its ease, except […]

    6 years ago

  • Race across Europe with The Great Travel Hack

    Race across Europe with The Great Travel Hack

    Brought to you by Shell Buckle up for a road trip challenge – with a difference Two teams, one continent, an epic competition and only one rule: the team with the lowest CO2 emissions wins. This is The Great Travel Hack, a show hosted by radio DJ Greg James and Dutch actress Katja Schuurman, who […]

    6 years ago

  • Sadiq Khan reads Donald Trump’s tweets

    Sadiq Khan reads Donald Trump’s tweets

    The two do not see eye-to-eye US president Donald Trump is in London for the 70th anniversary of NATO. His relationship with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is strained, to say the least. The pair have repeatedly clashed in the past. So, to celebrate the president’s visit to the UK, we sat down with the […]

    6 years ago

  • True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public

    True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public

    ‘Shut the fridge!’ In the UK, an ambulance callout costs you £0 in medical bills. The birth of your child costs you £0 in medical bills. In the USA, it’s a different story. We asked members of the public to guess how much they’d have to pay for simple medical services in America, and what […]

    6 years ago

  • Eating challenge: we tackled London’s biggest breakfast

    Eating challenge: we tackled London’s biggest breakfast

    “That’s 1.2 kilos of chips…you have one hour to eat it.” We tried London’s biggest breakfast, and boy was it more than we bargained for. This full English eating challenge is not for the faint-hearted, and when you look at the components it’s easy to see why. The restaurant responsible is the aptly-named Fat Boys […]

    6 years ago

  • Welcome to PoliticsJOE YouTube

    Welcome to PoliticsJOE YouTube

    Politics for the many, not the few You’ve seen JOE’s political offerings on social media. Of course you have, otherwise you probably wouldn’t be here. Now PoliticsJOE is officially on YouTube so you can find all of our song mashups, exclusive interviews with key figures and politicians, and documentaries all in the same place. Our […]

    6 years ago

  • From Non-League to Premier League: Callum Wilson interview

    From Non-League to Premier League: Callum Wilson interview

    “I always felt like I would play for England.” Callum Wilson didn’t take the usual root to the top. Starting his career at Coventry, he endured two difficult spells in Non-League, scoring two goals in 20 matches. During his formative years, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that he wasn’t destined for international football or […]

    6 years ago

  • Lewes Bonfire: Britain’s most dangerous Guy Fawkes celebration

    Lewes Bonfire: Britain’s most dangerous Guy Fawkes celebration

    This looks fucking wild On November 5 every year the British people celebrate the failure of a man who attempted to blow up the House of Lords more than 400 years ago. That man was Guy Fawkes and he was a part of the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I. To celebrate the king’s […]

    6 years ago

  • The campaign to remember Britain’s forgotten black soldiers

    The campaign to remember Britain’s forgotten black soldiers

    On Remembrance Sunday Britain remembers its war dead At 11am on the second Sunday in November (the Sunday nearest to 11 November, 1918 – the end of World War I) Britain holds Remembrance Sunday to commemorate its fallen soldiers. Up and down the country, crowds of people gather to pay their respects to their forefathers […]

    6 years ago

  • How to cope with economic uncertainty in the face of Brexit

    How to cope with economic uncertainty in the face of Brexit

    Advertisement feature We live in uncertain times – are you prepared? No one knows exactly what’s going to happen with Brexit. Hard? Soft? Deal? No Deal? Revoke and remain? Among the many concerns around the UK leaving the European Union, economic uncertainty is at the forefront. Even aside from Brexit, many experts think that some […]

    6 years ago

  • Come Flea With Me: Sir Richard Branson haggles flight prices in Tel Aviv market

    Come Flea With Me: Sir Richard Branson haggles flight prices in Tel Aviv market

    Have you ever wondered how good Sir Richard Branson is at haggling? To celebrate Virgin Atlantic’s latest route – the airline now offers flights to Tel Aviv – the international businessman extraordinaire surprised locals in the city’s famous Jaffa Market. Not only that, but he even set up his own stall – pithily named ‘Come […]

    6 years ago

  • The biggest myths around debt – busted

    The biggest myths around debt – busted

    Advertisement feature Debt is a scary word, but it’s something most of us will encounter Student loans. Credit cards. Mortgages. It’s more than likely that you’ll incur some kind of borrowing during your life, and unless you can’t pay, it’s nothing to be frightened of. Sometimes, though, manageable borrowing becomes problem debt. It doesn’t help […]

    6 years ago

  • Entrepreneur Cassandra Stavrou on how to make it as a woman in business

    Entrepreneur Cassandra Stavrou on how to make it as a woman in business

    Brought to you by Open Money “That just makes me even more determined” This week’s guest on Pioneers with John Amaechi is Cassandra Stavrou, the founder of healthy gourmet popcorn brand, Proper. She founded Proper – then known as Propercorn – in 2011, and it is now available in eleven countries around the world. In 2017, the […]

    6 years ago

  • How I pulled myself back from the brink of a debt nightmare

    How I pulled myself back from the brink of a debt nightmare

    Advertisement feature Jack was 22 when he realised he was in trouble. Coming out of university and moving into the next stage of his life, Jack started to accumulate debt. Banks were offering what seemed like straightforward financial services: credit cards and the like. And as a young person fresh out of education and into […]

    6 years ago

  • Leicester City fans pay tribute to their late chairman

    Leicester City fans pay tribute to their late chairman

    It’s been almost one year since Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha tragically died in a helicopter crash On Saturday thousands of Leicester supporters took to the streets to march from the city centre to the King Power Stadium in honour of their late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Srivaddhanaprabha was one of five people who died on October […]

    6 years ago

  • Travel mogul explains how 9/11 changed the industry forever

    Travel mogul explains how 9/11 changed the industry forever

    Brought to you by Open Money Entrepreneur and politician Dinesh Dhamija has led a remarkable life. The son of a diplomat, he was born in Australia, and spent a nomadic childhood living in Mauritius India, Holland, Afghanistan, and Czechoslovakia, before settling in the UK in the mid 1960s. He then went from selling tickets in a kiosk in […]

    7 years ago

  • Welcome to JOE Merchandise

    Welcome to JOE Merchandise

    You love JOE, we love JOE, now you can wear JOE JOE’s mission is to entertain and inspire through original content, specialising in sport, politics, lifestyle and pop culture. And now we’re moving into merchandising: starting with our hugely successful JOE Presents shows. From eternal quotes like “Never microwave Moules Marinieres” to All Aboard The Hask […]

    7 years ago

  • Is the EU Settlement Scheme discriminating against stay-at-home parents?

    Is the EU Settlement Scheme discriminating against stay-at-home parents?

    “I just want to get this over with” The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on October 31, either by securing a deal with the the EU or – if Boris Johnson has his way – leaving without a deal. That reality has put the status of Europeans living in the UK […]

    7 years ago

  • Inside the Home Office’s EU migrant settlement status scheme

    Inside the Home Office’s EU migrant settlement status scheme

    JOE spoke to Brandon Lewis of the Home Office about the government’s settlement status scheme Ahead of the United Kingdom’s impending exit from the European Union, migrants from the bloc who have lived here for longer than five years after being asked to apply for settled status via a government scheme. After investigations revealed that […]

    7 years ago

  • How to overcome your worst fears

    How to overcome your worst fears

    Fears are shit Being afraid stops us doing lots of things during our lives. It can stop us asking someone out, stop us applying for our dream job, and stop us from having fun. Fears can be paralysing, and the only way of overcoming them is by actually tackling them head on. So that is […]

    7 years ago

  • Brexit: Boris Johnson clashes with opponents in Parliament

    Brexit: Boris Johnson clashes with opponents in Parliament

    “When will the Prime Minister apologise for his racist remarks?” Boris Johnson today held his first Prime Minister’s Questions – and faced a fiery backlash from all four corners of the house. Boris’ premier PMQs session also saw him clash with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for the first time. “He’s asking for mobs of Momentum […]

    7 years ago

  • Introducing American rapper Hobo Johnson to a Full English breakfast

    Introducing American rapper Hobo Johnson to a Full English breakfast

    How does the Full English stack up for American rapper Hobo Johnson? “You guys have ham…we have bacon!” Just like the breakfast this interview got heated about the intricacies of the classic Full English. We took American Rapper Hobo Johnson out for breakfast in London to see how it measures up. Before the food even […]

    7 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola – Instagram Grid

    Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola – Instagram Grid

    Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola – Instagram Grid Prize details: 1x Premier League Football Prize Bag   There will be 4x winners selected. Each winner will win 1x Premier League Football Prize Bag Terms and Conditions To enter the competition, entrants need to correctly guess the location of the football on the grid post […]

    7 years ago

  • The best one-on-one conversations in the history of movies

    The best one-on-one conversations in the history of movies

    McVitie’s and Mind are encouraging the nation to get together over and biscuit and a cuppa and get talking. To find out more click here Talking is important. Just taking time out, with a friend or family member, to catch up and chat about whatever. We don’t do it enough, and it’s something that needs to […]

    7 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola

    Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola

    Terms and Conditions: Coca Cola – Instagram Grid Prize details: 1x Premier League Football Prize Bag  There will be 4x winners selected. Each winner will win 1x Premier League Football Prize Bag Terms and Conditions To enter the competition, entrants need to correctly guess the location of the football on the grid post image on […]

    7 years ago