If you’re an obsessive online shopper like me, you’ll probably understand when I say that it takes a fair amount of dedication. You might be looking for a specific item – let’s say a pair of tie-dye denim shorts. To find the shorts, you have to trawl through loads of retail websites, first of all to see if they have such an item, secondly to check that they have it [...]

#heardwhilstdisabled (#heardwhiledisabled in the US) has been trending on Twitter today after news broke that job agencies were actively advising employees not to help unemployed disabled people to find work. A Panorama investigation found that the company Triage, a private company paid by the government to help those on benefits to find work, regularly referred to disabled clients as LTBs (‘Lying Thieving Bastards’) and did as little as they could [...]

After receiving the Cecil B DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, American actress Jodie Foster ended several years of media speculation last night by revealing that she is gay. In her acceptance speech, Foster announced that she had “a sudden urge to say something that I’ve never really been able to air in public”. “I’m just gonna put it out there, loud and proud,” she declared, with [...]

Is the end of the world getting you down? Is the suspense of it all getting a bit tedious? Are you spending your final hours twiddling your thumbs and wondering whether you should have bought Christmas presents after all? Well, fear not, because there’s nothing like a bit of humour to lighten the apocalyptic mood. Here are some of our favourite tweets concerning the Mayan prophecy: Royal discontent  This joke [...]

December is once more upon us, and if the barrage of Christmas adverts have done their job, you should now be feeling rather festive. But what about your house? If, on the annual trip to the loft, your decorations seem a bit dusty and outdated, there is a simple solution – DIY! That’s right, put on your crafty hats and get out the scissors and glue, because it’s time to [...]

Remember that scene in Love Actually where Hugh Grant, as Prime Minister, makes a patriotic speech about standing up for what you believe in, no matter who you’re up against? Well, this isn’t really anything like that, but seeing Hugh Grant being interviewed on BBC Breakfast as he campaigned for an independent regulator for the press made us instantly imagine the rousing, swelling soundtrack of Love Actually playing in the [...]

In tonight’s episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, the phone lines were opened for the public to vote to save their favourite celebrity. Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire was the first to be eliminated from the competition after receiving the fewest votes. Dorries, who entered the show to bring “politics to the people”, stated before the results were revealed that she believed if she [...]

Representatives of the Church of England voted today to decide whether it should allow women to become bishops. The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body which makes key decisions about the way that the Anglican church is run and regulated. Today, the synod failed to pass a measure which would allow women to become bishops by just six votes. This was despite widespread support from [...]

McKayla Maroney, American gymnast and double Olympic medallist, made internet history yesterday at the White House. Maroney, who famously pulled a disapproving expression as she stood on the podium to receive a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics, almost instantly became the subject of an internet meme entitled ‘McKayla Maroney is not impressed’. It appears that the meme was so widespread that it had even caught the attention of [...]

A while back, if you’re eligible to vote, you might have had a polling card through the post which allows you to vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections on Thursday 15th November. In England and Wales, we are being asked to choose a candidate to supervise the running of one of the 41 police force districts. If this is your first time voting, or you want to know [...]