Richard Branson continues to expand his Virgin empire with the bold launch of a range of new perfumes based on his Virgin Trains franchise. The first scent is inspired by his Pendolino trains, and is expected to be a best-seller with its unique combination of diesel, rubber, urine, grease and nappy poo.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2009
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The family of Gareth Taggart watched in horror this week as the 40-year-old secondary school teacher from Uttoxeter completed a terrible transformation that saw him change from being a youthful, open-minded, laidback liberal into an uptight, ranting, middle-aged man with an addiction to the History Channel, in an unholy conversion that has been described by many seasoned local observers as his birthright.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2009
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The BBC’s Question Time programme provokes a firestorm of complaints after its panel included two women over thirty.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009
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ITV has announced a co-production deal with US television channel NBC to revive hit 1990s sitcom Friends as a period drama, featuring the original cast but set in eighteenth-century Hertfordshire.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009
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Twenty-four year old Ben Donovan found himself feeling increasingly trapped and anxious last Wednesday evening as an initially friendly chat with seventy-eight year-old pensioner Fred Greggs at a Bethnal Green bus stop continually teetered on the edge of small talk and explicit racism. ‘This sweet old man said to me how the bus was late again, and I said something about London Transport these days’, explained the trainee solicitor, ‘He then said how the drivers are all a bit laidback, if I knew what he meant, and started whistling what I think was a calypso while miming smoking what I suspect wasn’t just an unfiltered Woodbine.’
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009
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