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- Is Rock Band Suitable For My Children?
Jun 24, 2009
A short article looking at the incredibly popular Rock Band video game franchise and its suitability for younger gamers.
Category: Parenting
- Susan Boyle: This Season's Latest Craze
Jun 3, 2009
We're at it again. Just three months after the death of reality TV star Jade Goody and we are on our way to destroying yet another celebrity. This...
Category: Society and Culture
- Popular Poetry Please: Carol Ann Duffy, The First Female Poet Laureate
May 11, 2009
With the most widely read British poet alive today being named Poet Laureate, can Carol Ann Duffy rejuvenate the art for the 21st century?
Category: Arts and Entertainment
- Planet X, 2012 And The End Of The World
May 11, 2009
2012 is marked as an important year for many people. While the Brits will be joyously celebrating the arrival of the Olympic flame, hundreds, maybe...
Category: Science
- The Sexiest Women In The World: Will The Global Economic Slowdown Change Our Perceptions Of Beauty?
May 10, 2009
The 2009 FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women in the world listing has been revealed, but what does it tell us about the world?
Category: Society and Culture
- Reporting The News - How TV is Fighting Back
Apr 1, 2009
With the incredible rise of the internet, traditional news bulletins on TV, radio and in newspapers have had to dramatically alter the way they...
Category: Society and Culture
- Just Jade? The Life and Death Of A TV Celeb
Mar 26, 2009
Jade Goody was the first 'star' to be born and die in the media spotlight and what a shame it is. The bigger shame lies in the fact that more...
Category: Society and Culture
- Start A Band In Three Easy Steps: Myspace, Facebook And Twitter
Mar 24, 2009
Stop complaining - it's not that hard to break into the music industry when you have the internet on your side.
Category: Music
- Twitter: A Layman's Guide
Mar 19, 2009
A beginner's guide to the biggest social networking phenomenon of the year: Twitter
Category: Broadcasting
- Nature's Unloved: The Fascinating World of Ugly Animals
Feb 6, 2009
A short fact-file on three of nature's ugliest but most fascinating creatures. The naked mole rat, the hagfish and the axolotl.
Category: Nature
- Not a Hallmark Holiday: The Ancient History of St Valentine's Day
Feb 4, 2009
Many consider St Valentine's Day to be a creation of greetings card companies, little more than an excuse for shops to push paper hearts and...
Category: Society and Culture
- Heath Ledger And The Oscar: It's Just A Bad Joke
Feb 3, 2009
Almost a year to the day he was found dead of a drug overdose in a Manhattan apartment, Heath Ledger has been named as a best-supporting actor...
Category: Movies
- On Her Majesty's Not So Secret Service
Jan 19, 2009
Why shouldn't spies own our media now there are no secrets safe from the Xbox generation?
Category: Computers
- Is The Well Dressed Briton About To Lose More Than The Shirt Off Their Back?
Jan 18, 2009
The announcement that Viyella has gone into administration brings fears that many other old-established bastions of the British sartorial identity...
Category: Business
- Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Jan 16, 2009
George Bush gained a fair amount of respect for his farewell speech for standing up for his actions and not apologising. Could Prince Harry and...
Category: Society and Culture
- A Million Here, A Million There, Soon It Adds Up To Real Money
Jan 14, 2009
How to make money in a recession, and still be better liked than a banker.
Category: Accounting
- Wags Are Sitting on an Underground Secret in Cheshire
Jan 14, 2009
Brrr! Britain shivers under Arctic condition, and for one all-too-brief period, Cheshire becomes famous for something other than having been home...
Category: Society and Culture
- Petrolheads Must Unite To Fight Recession
Jan 14, 2009
One hundred years of British heroes say Max Mosely is wrong to bring in go-slow, cut price tactics to F1. This is no way to save a country in...
Category: Recreation and Sports
- Who Wants a Politician as Their Personal Trainer?
Jan 12, 2009
What have Gordon Brown, Vladimir Putin, Nigella Lawson's dad and Tony Blair, but not Winston Churchill, have in common? A fascination with food and...
Category: Weight Loss
- Housey Housey: The Games People Play To Boost Property Prices
Jan 12, 2009
From the gambling palaces of Las vegas to the council houses of Amsterdam and Brtain's rolling green acres, the hunt is on to find promising...
Category: Business
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