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  • How to make your own pizza with friends via Skype

    How to make your own pizza with friends via Skype

    Sometimes a pizza is the only thing that will do Due to the lockdown we’re currently living through, the simple and barely considered joy of going out for something to eat with friends is off the table, if you will. Restaurants are for the most part closed – bar certain ones still doing takeaway – […]

    6 years ago

  • Does lockdown work without checks at UK airports?

    Does lockdown work without checks at UK airports?

    “Not a single person at this airport has asked me anything” The United Kingdom has been on lockdown for more than a week, with gatherings of people also prohibited under the government’s plans to slow the spread of COVID-19. These measures were relatively late, coming after it became clear that the original plan for the […]

    6 years ago

  • QUIZ: Can you name these Football Italia cult heroes?

    QUIZ: Can you name these Football Italia cult heroes?

    “Golaço!!” What we wouldn’t give for a bit of Football Italia right now. Even a dour 0-0 draw between Reggiana and Foggia. Back in 1992, inspired by the success of Italia 90 and Paul Gascoigne’s big-money move from Tottenham to Lazio, Channel 4 launched Football Italia onto the TV screens and straight to our hearts. […]

    6 years ago

  • Lunchtime History Lesson with Greg Jenner of Horrible Histories

    Lunchtime History Lesson with Greg Jenner of Horrible Histories

    Let us take you on a trip back in time On our first Lunchtime Lecture, historian and author Greg Jenner joins us for a lesson in the history of celebrity. Jenner has worked on the Horrible Histories books and TV show, as well as appearing on numerous television shows and BBC radio programs. In these […]

    6 years ago

  • Football Manager: Veteran player hands his team to a rookie

    Football Manager: Veteran player hands his team to a rookie

    Would you hand the keys of your football team to a novice? Kyle Picknell is very good at Football Manager. He has committed thousands of hours of his life into the game, and as a result has got really good at it. Joe Gilmore has not. He has never played Football Manager in his life and as […]

    6 years ago

  • A message from NHS workers

    A message from NHS workers

    “I’ve never been so proud to do the job I’m doing, but I’ve also never been so scared” Right now, the United Kingdom is in the grip of the greatest threat to life its seen since World War II. The outbreak of COVID-19 has killed more than a thousand people, and is projected to take […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms & Conditions: Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz BrewDog Giveaway

    Terms & Conditions: Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz BrewDog Giveaway

    Terms and Conditions: Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz, BrewDog Giveaway Prize details: 5x cases of 12x BrewDog beer – Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz, BrewDog Giveaway – on Friday 27th March 2020 at 8pm (GMT) Terms and Conditions To enter the competition on Facebook entrants, need to share the Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz posted […]

    6 years ago

  • Britain claps for its heroes in the NHS

    Britain claps for its heroes in the NHS

    Maybe now we will value the NHS the way we always should have If the outbreak of COVID-19 has done one slightly positive thing in the United Kingdom, it has been the fact that people appear to appreciate the National Health Service the way they always should have. Our NHS workers on the frontline against […]

    6 years ago

  • Test your knowledge with the Ultimate Disney Quiz

    Test your knowledge with the Ultimate Disney Quiz

    So you think you’re a die-hard Disney fan? Prove it… It’s been a long time coming, but Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic are finally all together in one place, waiting for you to sit back, relax and enjoy. All the Avengers movies in one place, all the classic Disney animated films, and […]

    6 years ago

  • Last orders for Manchester’s night life before lockdown

    Last orders for Manchester’s night life before lockdown

    The pubs are now closed Britain has entered a stage of lockdown after prime minister Boris Johnson announced to the public in a televised address that he had granted police powers to issue fines to people outside of their homes unnecessarily and to disperse crowds. Part of the reason that this drastic measure needed to […]

    6 years ago

  • Can you find the coronavirus funny?

    Can you find the coronavirus funny?

    Can a global pandemic be funny? The term ‘too soon’ is one we are acquainted with. If you’re not, it generally refers to a joke made ‘too soon’ after the event it’s making fun of. It can be jokes that are a little too close to the bone, or ones that people consider to be […]

    6 years ago

  • Are Britain’s measures against the COVID-19 outbreak too little, too late?

    Are Britain’s measures against the COVID-19 outbreak too little, too late?

    Are the British measures against COVID-19 too little, too late? Britain’s initial response from government to the outbreak of the coronavirus was something that could be simply summed up with a shrug of one’s shoulders. The prime minister Boris Johnson reacted to the news of the outbreak in the United Kingdom by suggesting earnestly that […]

    6 years ago

  • Training for an Olympics that might never happen

    Training for an Olympics that might never happen

    Health must take precedence British sprint star Adam Gemili would, in a normal Olympic year, be gearing up his training right about now with autumn and the Games in sight. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the impact it is having on our societies worldwide with lockdowns, restricted movements and in some cases closed […]

    6 years ago

  • The Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz

    The Live JOE Friday Pub Quiz

    The pub is not an option, so we’re bringing it to you The COVID-19 outbreak means that we are no longer able to go to the pub, not for a while at least. But worry not, we are hosting a live JOE Friday Pub Quiz tonight at 8pm. Just head over to our Facebook page, […]

    6 years ago

  • COVID-19: A trip round London’s deserted streets

    COVID-19: A trip round London’s deserted streets

    London has never been so quiet London, like most capital cities, is famed for its hustle and bustle. There is never a quiet moment in Britain’s capital. Usually, the 9 million population of London only desert the streets on Christmas day. But the global outbreak of the coronavirus has seen all of the hottest tourist […]

    6 years ago

  • Jurgen Klopp plays board games against an Everton fan

    Jurgen Klopp plays board games against an Everton fan

    In the absence of actual football, this will more than suffice Jurgen Klopp is a popular man at the moment. His Liverpool team are top of the (currently suspended) Premier League and look set, at some point in the future, to lift the title for the first time in 30 years. Without any discernible football […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Prize details: 3x pairs of 2x tickets Wales vs Scotland – Guinness Six Nations 2020, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, United Kingdom on Saturday 14 March 2020 at 14:15 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

  • Cuts have left the NHS grossly unprepared for the coronavirus

    Cuts have left the NHS grossly unprepared for the coronavirus

    If just one percent of the UK population contracts coronavirus, the NHS will need nine times more beds The NHS and its troubles have dominated British television screens and newspapers in recent years. An ageing population and problems brought about by repeated cuts to the health service’s budget has led to rising ‘trolley waits’ and […]

    6 years ago

  • This is Tyson Fury’s Guide to Self-Belief

    This is Tyson Fury’s Guide to Self-Belief

    The ‘Gypsy King’ is on top of the world When Tyson Fury defeated Deontay Wilder by technical knockout during their rematch in Las Vegas on February 22, 2020 – the 31-year-old not only took the WBC world championship from the Bronze Bomber, but also completed a cathartic and scarcely believable turnaround in his professional and […]

    6 years ago

  • Terms and conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Prize details: 2x pairs of 2x tickets Scotland vs France – Guinness Six Nations 2020, BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh, United Kingdom on Sunday 08 March 2020 at 13:00 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, […]

    6 years ago

  • The FootballJOE Quiz: Week 2

    The FootballJOE Quiz: Week 2

    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

  • Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    Terms and Conditions: Guinness Six Nations

    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

  • The FootballJOE Quiz: Week 1

    The FootballJOE Quiz: Week 1

    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

  • How one topless selfie led to sexual assault in 24 hours

    How one topless selfie led to sexual assault in 24 hours

    “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

  • Ruud Gullit on why Virgil van Dijk will never win the Ballon d’Or

    Ruud Gullit on why Virgil van Dijk will never win the Ballon d’Or

    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

  • Will football ever solve its racism problem?

    Will football ever solve its racism problem?

    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

  • Alessandro Del Piero on why he loves this Liverpool team

    Alessandro Del Piero on why he loves this Liverpool team

    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 blind dating with actual blindfolds

    Welcome to blind dating with actual blindfolds

    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

  • Marcus Rashford’s rise – from the man who first coached him

    Marcus Rashford’s rise – from the man who first coached him

    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

  • What is the right way to cut a sandwich?

    What is the right way to cut a sandwich?

    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

  • Britain’s maddest night out, this is Bongo’s Bingo | Out Out

    Britain’s maddest night out, this is Bongo’s Bingo | Out Out

    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

  • 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