Stephen Newton’s diary of sorts… was a year old last Friday and the very next day was named the most popular blog in the North West in the inaugural BritBlog chart and fourth most popular British Blog. Which was nice. But I have to admit that as of today I’m down to eight Continue reading
US researchers have taken the worst of British music – like Black Lace’s Agadoo – and some of the best – like the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction – to help discover what it is that makes a tune catchy. Brain activity was much the same when volunteers heard a full tune as when they Continue reading
Keen to persuade us that twenty-something women do politics, Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker’s used the Observer to say ‘We care about politics and our vote matters’, listing a few top line issues for women. And you have to give her top marks for effort: this month ‘The high heel vote: See grown men Continue reading
It’s proving to be an historic St. Patrick’s Day for Ireland, whose big wigs are obviously stateside where the real celebrations are: nobody would dye an Irish river green like they do in Chicago. And a good thing for Ireland that is too: the PM gets the ear of the US president at Continue reading
Back in June, I wrote ‘Britney sinks to new low’ and may have implied that she couldn’t sink any lower. I was wrong. With Do Somethin’, she proves that there truly are no depths to which she will not sink. Check out the video, where she fakes a kind of wild child sexuality Continue reading
