How time flies Only a week on from launching our brand spanking new weekly football quiz, here we are again with the second edition. Those that had a bash last week will see the format has remained unchanged, meaning you’ll have to dig deep into your knowledge of stadiums from around the world, famous (and […]

6 years ago

Prize details: 2x pairs of 2x tickets England vs Ireland – Guinness Six Nations 2020, Twickenham Stadium, London, United Kingdom on Sunday 23 February 2020 at 15:00. Terms and Conditions To enter the competition on Twitter entrants, need to comment on the competition post and name the player of the match posted by @JOE_co_uk, on […]

6 years ago

Like quizzes? Like football? Yeah? Good. You’re in precisely the right place. To run alongside JOE’s legendary weekly Pub Quiz, we bring you this – the first edition of the FootballJOE Quiz. 25 marks are on offer as you navigate your way through five rounds, offering you a chance to show off your impressive (and perhaps slightly pointless) […]

6 years ago

“They sexually assaulted me in my bedroom, and took photos of the whole experience” Rhiannon was just 13 when she sent a topless selfie to a stranger online. Within 24 hours, she was sexually assaulted by the same person, before being threatened against reporting what had happened to her. In the aftermath of the horrific […]

6 years ago

Will van Dijk ever get a better chance? Virgil van Dijk is undeniably the best centre-back in world football at this current moment in time. The Liverpool and Dutch central defender has been a revelation since joining the Reds from Southampton, helping to elevate them to a level all fans have dreamed of, but few […]

6 years ago

It was a week marked by regretful scenes in football, both at home and abroad On the latest episode of Liquid Football host Kelly Cates is joined by former Chelsea and Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips and ex-Chelsea and West Ham striker Carlton Cole. After a weekend marked by a number of incidents of alleged […]

6 years ago

High praise indeed For football supporters of a certain age, Alessandro Del Piero represents everything that was good about the game during the 1990s. The former Juventus forward was tough on the pitch, incredibly skilful and, not unlike many of his compatriots of the time, was cool as a cucumber. The 45-year-old won quite a […]

6 years ago

Welcome to the most ambitious crossover since The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! It’s Valentine’s Day and you know what that means? That’s right, finding someone to sit opposite while filling your mouth hole with food and trying to figure out something to talk about. There are many awkward aspects to the dating world. From awkward […]

6 years ago

From Fletcher Moss to Manchester United Marcus Rashford has this season become arguably Manchester United’s most important player. While incredibly promising from the moment he burst onto the scene, recent seasons had seen question marks emerge over the striker’s ruthlessness in front of goal. The 2019/20 season however has seen those questions silenced, as Rashford […]

6 years ago

Do you like sandwiches? That is of course a rhetorical question. Everyone loves sandwiches, that is an indisputable fact of life. Sandwiches go with everything; a conduit for flavour of any kind. A vessel for deliciousness. We could argue all day about what the best filling for a sandwich is but what is really the […]

6 years ago

We all have an idea of what bingo is like For those of us who have ever gone to a bingo night during our lives, we imagine a dark room full of elderly people methodically and slowly circling their numbers and – if we’re a little bit older – we remember the smell and sight […]

6 years ago

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

25,000 homes in London are currently unoccupied. JOE’s Head of Politics Oli Dugmore explains why the situation has escalated to this stage.

6 years ago

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 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

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

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

With Rebecca Long-Bailey and Keir Starmer the hot favourites to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, Paul Mason discusses the internal ideological battle

6 years ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

‘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 […]

7 years ago

“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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

“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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

They can talk the talk but can they walk the walk? Declan Rice and Michail Antonio engage in their fair share of battles in the line of work. Contesting headers in the air and 50/50s on the ground, they are two of the most combative players in the West Ham squad and never shy away […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

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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 […]

7 years ago

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 […]

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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 […]

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