As Theresa May sets about the arduous task of replacing all the paintings in her new Downing Street home – she reportedly intends to swap artworks from the Government Art Collection for framed quotations drawn from the speech she made upon becoming Prime Minister less than two weeks ago – one minor problem has emerged, but nobody seems willing to tell her…
Anxious adults of all ages have surged on supermarkets in search of the sweet clementine, after the mindful mutterings of a popular relaxation app were surreptitiously replaced by the searing sounds of early krautrock band Can. In some parts of the world the rush has even caused a shortage of the Mediterranean citrus. It all started when a 40-minute mindfulness meditation track…
For most people the 2012 London Olympics remains a fond memory of when Britain, in the immortal words of Sebastian Coe, ‘gone done it right’. That was the phrase which echoed throughout the Olympic Stadium and beyond on the night of the unforgettable opening ceremony orchestrated by Danny Boyle, when the whole world was offered a Pisgah sight of Britain as…
One flighty and endearingly capricious, enthralling the masses as he flounces from stage to stage, flailing his arms like a windsock puppet and unspooling from wet lips his one slogan about making America great. The other a man of firm conviction, the steely glint in his eyes matched only by the steely grey of hair whose colour somehow seems to permeate…
We’re still all absolutely devs about the breakup of 1D, and spend these long summer nights only dreaming about their one-day reunion as the runny makeup stains our tear-sodden pillows. Sob sob! But we also spend these dank summer nights dreaming about Zayn Malik’s first world tour, which will one day bring him tunefully to the United States of America. Zayn…
Among the many credentials which ought to have prevented Sam Allardyce ever being considered for the position of England manager – his lack of European experience, a poor top-flight win-loss record, a contentious relationship with prior club fans, the very fact that he is English – one of the biggest cited concerns has been his tendency to adopt a pragmatic…
Already in some discomfort, turned rudely on its head by the defeat of Ronda Rousey last November, over the past couple of weeks the throbbing organ of popular interest in the UFC Women’s Bantamweight division has succumbed to what can only be described as blunt force trauma. First Miesha Tate was dismantled in the first round of her first title defence by Amanda Nunes,…
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time – The steeples swam in Amethyst The news, like Squirrels, ran – The Hills untied their Bonnets – The Bobolinks – begun – Then I said softly to myself – ‘That must have been the Sun!’ But how he set – I know not – There seemed…
he ice rushed down the wall face with no warning but a ‘crck crck crck’, a flurry of jagged translucency muffling the last piercing cries of the steward and the maester who soon lay helpless underneath. For Maester Ormon, the steward Urvid, and many other men (but no women) of the Night’s Watch, worse was still to come. Within hours they had…
As the company is fond of informing both its longtime and prospective fanbase, anything can happen in World Wrestling Entertainment. And so it proved on Tuesday night, as the first live Smackdown aired on the USA Network. After a couple of months of heated anticipation, it was finally time for the brand draft to divide the roster into two not-quite-even…
