Celebrity Big Brother may have needed the excitement of a flutter to make it interesting and it may have had celebrities so unknown they didn’t know each other – Jeremy Edwards was in partly for his affair with Rachel Stevens, but Bez hadn’t heard and called her Rebecca; when they played the Happy Continue reading
Suffering less than most from Leigh’s tendency to err on the side of caricature, Vera Drake is a tender, often comic portrait of 1950s Britain; optimism’s emerging alongside consumerism; rationing’s created a burgeoning black market. And well-meaning, naïve Vera’s unthinking willingness to ‘help girls out’ opens her to exploitation and ultimately rips her Continue reading
eBay! might have the profile and reputation, but if you’re really serious about online auctions, you can’t beat US Government Military Surplus, where you can avoid being labelled an unlawful combatant by bidding on military uniforms and suchlike. And that’s not all: today’s hot lot is a rather nice 65ft yacht. While there’re Continue reading
Bush has pledged to spread freedom and it’s easy to be cynical about that: blogging institution Tim Ireland’s attempting a Google bomb on ‘empty rhetoric’, but a search on that term reveals he’s been beaten to it. I find all that rather tiresome and predictable. Sadly predictable, as it comes against a background Continue reading
‘A Cardiff University academic has pinpointed this Monday – 24 January – as the most depressing day of the year: a dark cocktail of foul weather, failed resolutions and overdue Christmas bills’, warned Saturday’s Independent, before launching into a vast array of useless tips on how to survive it from people without ordinary Continue reading
