Yeah, you really aren’t gonna see this one coming For all intents and purposes, Ryan Gosling is the perfect choice to play Ken, himbo boyfriend of the iconic doll and children’s toy Barbie, in a film adaptation. He’s blonde, muscular and unnervingly attractive, with a degree of facial symmetry that even plastic surgeons would be […]

3 years ago

Much like your badly behaved cat, rowdy drunkards now risk being sprayed with water by nightclub bouncers Nightclub security staff in parts of the UK are being offered a new tool in an effort to deal with difficult club goers, and it isn’t what you might expect. Bouncers and door staff will be given “handheld […]

3 years ago

The men of Love Island this year are unquestionably the worst behaved that we have ever seen Year on year, we are treated to a buffet of bad manners and enough red flags to provide 50 per cent of the bunting for whatever elaborately expensive Royal celebration this country has next. But on this year’s […]

3 years ago

Rail workers are feeling directionless, abandoned and failed by all political parties – and they aren’t alone Robin has voted Conservative for as long as he’s been able to vote. This week, something changed. He cancelled his Tory membership online and cut ties with the party, leaving a lengthy explanation of why in an online […]

3 years ago

You know what they say, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em Recently I’ve been having a bit of a pest problem. They don’t scuttle around my house or nibble at my food. They don’t even exist in the physical realm, so they can’t be swatted or fumigated or put into a little glass with […]

3 years ago

In the now-viral video, the star tries to smile with the right side of his face completely frozen For most people, the first time they hear about Ramsay Hunt syndrome is when they find out they have it. It’s incredibly rare, affecting around 5 in 100,000 people in America a year. There aren’t any accurate […]

3 years ago

The fallout from the celebrity trial has left victims of domestic abuse scared to speak out For Sara, watching Johnny Depp during his trial was more like reliving a memory. Everything from his posture, to his tone of voice and even the way he answered questions was eerily familiar. This is because Sara, 42, has […]

3 years ago

The soldiers fame is helping desperate Ukrainians survive the war On February 24, a phrase was uttered that would become a defining moment of the Russia-Ukraine war, on its first day. In response to Russian soldiers ordering Ukrainian border guards on the small island territory of Snake Island to stand down, the border guards simply […]

4 years ago

The videos have been described as ‘highly graphic and disturbing’ Journalists working in the UK have been warned to be wary of opening emails from Russian email accounts this week after staff at two national publications received “very disturbing” videos showing Russian soldiers being murdered. Reporters have been sent videos and images from .ru email […]

4 years ago

Around 350,000 people in the UK have aphasia, and over a million globally, but a lot of people probably only learned about it this week You had probably never heard of aphasia before Wednesday when it was announced that Bruce Willis would be retiring from acting because of the condition. This is strange, because aphasia, […]

4 years ago

An information war is being waged in the comments across Instagram  “Stop posting such nonsense. I live in Russia. We are not bombing Ukraine and we are not going to do it in the future. Where do you get such photos? You shameless b*****ds.”  This is a real comment on a major news organisation’s Instagram […]

4 years ago

‘I didn’t want to break down, but I was just frozen in fear and pain’ Lloyd* reckons he’s been strip-searched six times. He’s 28 years old now, but the first time it happened, he was just 18. Lloyd was trying to get into his house after forgetting his keys, and a suspicion of him breaking […]

4 years ago

Everyone has gripes with how their partner or mates spend their money. Maybe they don’t get their round in as often as you, or they spend far too much on takeaways – or they’re such a super saver they’ll never just sack it off and buy a one way flight to Mexico. Or maybe they […]

4 years ago

“If something pops off, I want to be there […] I want to be in every war.” “Sometimes now when I get home and sit down in my chair… I long for this type of stuff,” says Miles Routledge. By ‘this type of stuff’, Miles means war. If you recognise Miles’ name it’s because he’s […]

4 years ago

Passport burning has become a trend amongst the conflict in Ukraine, and one Russian is on a mission to set his alight – once he’s done in Ukraine, that is When he gets home, Vladislav Davidzon is going to burn his Russian passport. A journalist, with a Ukrainian wife, Vlad travelled to his adopted homeland […]

4 years ago

“Everyone is tired of hate, tired of sanctions, tired of our president. We empathize with Ukrainians” Vera is 28 years old and living in Moscow. She’s lived in Russia her whole life, and was born near the border to Ukraine. Until two days ago, she was trying for a baby. “My husband and I have […]

4 years ago

Meet the stoners going from couch potatoes to 5K Picture this: you’ve just smoked a joint. It wasn’t too big or too small, it was the perfect joint for you – Goldilocks style. You’re starting to feel the trademark symptoms of a gradual high. Try it with me now. Your shoulders relax. Breathing slows and […]

4 years ago

‘As soon as people realise you’re not drinking, they get their backs up. It’s a pack mentality’ Josh and Trevor started binge drinking when they were 14. They’d walk into off-licences after school and walk out with 3L bottles of Strongbow (they were tall for their age). Then it was straight to the local park […]

4 years ago

Rainbow Laces Day 2021: Under the current law, if you want to get up and imitate anal sex to a stadium full of people, you’re pretty safe to do so Every time Ryan Mather cheered, his breath froze in front of his face. An ardent Huddersfield supporter, he had defied the icy Yorkshire weather to […]

4 years ago

Forget Tory sleaze, anti-maskers and the Omicron variant vs Christmas – the issue that is turning us all into keyboard warriors right now is the state of the Wetherspoons chip count. For those of you not caught up, the issue is this: the pub chain is being called out for allegedly providing varying amounts of […]

4 years ago

‘I even told one of them that my occupation was a lobster trawler. How didn’t they know?’ Earlier this week, pensioner Boris Bennett outlined his plans to collect a chip from every single Wetherspoons in the country. He had already got pretty far, with a binder containing at least nine chips, from Spoons as south […]

4 years ago

The conversation around spiking has become too big for club bosses to ignore, so they’re joining in The bosses behind the UK’s biggest nightclub chains have vowed to close a number of venues tonight in support of protests against spiking in UK clubs. The closure of multiple venues by Rekom UK, who own Atik and […]

4 years ago

No subject is off-limits for Cold War Steve, the social media satirist who went from cut and pasting Phil Mitchell to haunting our dreams with Boris’s naked backside. Picture this: Boris Johnson, naked, riding a pig down a country lane. Passersby include Phil Mitchell from EastEnders and Thérèse Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and […]

4 years ago

If a violent crime is classified as a hate crime, it will take twice as long to solve on average A person reporting a hate crime may have to wait six times as long as someone who reports a normal crime to get a resolution, a Home Office report has found. The report, released Tuesday, […]

4 years ago

Goodbye sleep paralysis demon, hello to Michael Gove’s dating profile every time I close my eyes Pitch most women a six-foot tall, social smoking Virgo who’s into his wine and owns at least three (!) different pairs of glasses, and you’d have some pretty good odds that they’d shag him. At least once, you’d wager, […]

4 years ago

How embarrassing for him Jacob Rees-Mogg was denied entry to popular student bar Revólucion De Cuba, also known as Revs, last night in Manchester after the Conservative party conference. The cabinet minister was spotted trying to gain entry and then being allegedly turned away by a source who works at the bar. It is not […]

4 years ago

Jake Davison posted endlessly about his hate of women before going on a killing spree. Meet the former incels helping men like him escape this warped ideology Keith is a 29-year-old virgin. Not long ago, he was incredibly resentful of this fact. He thought the very nature of dating was unfair, blamed women for his […]

4 years ago

We love a festival. Who doesn’t love a festival? And for those who haven’t indulged in everyone’s favourite summer pastime this year, sitting and swiping through Instagram post after Instagram post, stories of confetti flying through the air and obligatory group pics with minimum two bucket hats in frame, you’ll probably be feeling a bit […]

4 years ago

The unrest that erupted after England lost the Euro’s put the spotlight not only on racism but also on drug-taking among fans. So how bad is it, and what are authorities doing about it? Sunday had already turned to Monday by the time Rachel* spooned the final nugget of coke into her nose while sat […]

4 years ago

On Freedom Day, some well-meaning nightclubs added a new step to their entry process: Covid testing. The problem is, clubbers aren’t playing by the rules. To get into London nightclub, FOLD,  you need to jump through a fair few hoops. First, you need to have the standard club entry gear: ID and a ticket. Next, […]

4 years ago

Former Wales rugby star speaks out about his long-running battle against hate after Euros abuse. Gareth Thomas knows a lot about hate. When he came out as gay to his wife in 2006 and she left him, he hated himself. In 2018, he was the victim of a hate crime in his home city of […]

4 years ago

Ex-Manchester United player Ryan Giggs allegedly kicked his ex-girlfriend in the back and thrown her out of a hotel room after she accused him of flirting with other women, a court heard today. Manchester Crown Court heard the details of Ryan Giggs’ alleged coercive and controlling behaviour, spanning over three years, inflicted by Giggs onto […]

4 years ago

Contact tracing is being used to prevent the variant’s spread Public Health England has confirmed that a new Covid variant has been discovered in the UK and is currently under investigation. It was declared under investigation as of Wednesday and is currently known as B.1.621. So far there have been 16 confirmed cases of this […]

4 years ago

He said he thinks there’s “quite a few in the England team who would equally want to be in the shadow cabinet” Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that he would pick Gary Neville to join his cabinet if he could, and joked that other England players would be interested in joining too. The comment arose […]

4 years ago

These numbers are not painting a pretty picture, in fact, they’re painting The Scream by Edvard Munch Five days on from Freedom Day, Brits would be forgiven for not feeling that upbeat about having Covid beat. After all, this week we’ve been pinged with one bad statistic after another, from infection rates soaring to record […]

4 years ago

It kind of feels like the Tokyo Olympics are competing for gold in… mistakes The Tokyo Olympics have been dominating headlines this week ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony – but for all the wrong reasons. Forget about stories of athletic prowess, the excitement of prospective spectators (there aren’t any, they’re literally not allowed), or even […]

4 years ago

And it’s not just due to our weak and frail nature The Great British Heatwave is upon us and everything is melting. Ice lollies, roads, train cables. It’s well known that us Brits can’t deal with heat very well. A case could be made for us not actually being able to deal with anything very […]

4 years ago

WHO could have seen this coming? It’s the day we’ve all been looking forward to, since, well seemingly forever – Freedom Day. The day we could all stop wearing masks – unless, of course, we were going to the shops or catching a bus or basically going anywhere we might see other people. And we […]

4 years ago