News Archive

November 30

• The strange mystery of one particularly popular comment on The Rock's social media posts
• 5 good pubs that also have ghosts
• Floyd Mayweather & DJ Khaled have been given huge cryptocurrency-related fines, because 2018 is confusing
• Netflix has cancelled Marvel’s 'Daredevil’ after three seasons
• Here's how much more expensive your train tickets are going to be next year
• Porsche have made the most beautiful washing machine ever
• Red Dead Redemption 2 has a secret map – here’s how to unlock it
• Adam Rutherford's Train Delay Playlist

November 29

• “This is about as fertile ground as it's possible to get for a fascist”: James O’Brien on Britain in 2018
• "Millennials know what this country should stand for”: David Lammy rebrands Britain
• The truly bizarre story of a football club that faked a player’s death
• "What will they say when they see I’ve abused the Queen?": Eddie Marsan on boxing, bad guys & quitting Twitter
• ‘Luther’ is back after three years and darker than ever - but is there a massive twist?
• The best sleep tech
• Danny Wallace on how to fix broken Britain
• The Brits Critics' Choice 2019 nominees have been revealed and this is who will win
• Speaking up about mental health

November 28

• This is how Julian Assange and the Donald Trump campaign are secretly connected, according to report
• 5 winter hair cuts
• Last Night In Paris
• Couple perform baby gender reveal in forest, cause $8.2m wildfire
• Netflix are bring a load of Roald Dahl's books to the small screen
• Everyone is watching this new clip of Boris Johnson in disbelief
• Nando’s new Christmas special is something fans have wanted for a long time
• best new menswear this week

November 27

• Short Story: 'About Helen'
• 'Luther', 'QI' and Fleetwood Mac: The BBC Christmas TV worth watching
• These are the people who could end up on the £50 note
• Bill Bailey's Train Delay Playlist
• "We're years, rather than decades away": How sex robots are about to change the face of love
• Lionel Messi showed he’s superhuman once more with this outrageous nutmeg
• 5 luxurious advent calendars

November 26

• Historians have identified the worst year in the history of civilization
• A man has been arrested for *literally* laundering money
• HBO is looking for a pair of twins to star in its 'Game of Thrones' spinoff
• Someone has edited all of the Marvel Phase One movies into one TV show that you can watch
• This football club are somehow managing to be in the best and worst form in their history

November 23

• How to make a billion-pound football video game
• Apple could be bringing out an affordable rival to Amazon's Firestick
• Best Mickey Mouse menswear
• We asked tech experts how we're going to solve the biggest problems in transport, the home & entertainment
• Here’s the first teaser trailer for the new ‘Lion King’ film
• Keanu Reeves is joining the cast of 'Toy Story 4', hopefully as John Wick
• The most hashtagged dog breeds on Instagram have been revealed
• 15 pictures of Mr. Blobby that sum up your horrible hangover
• 5 secret menu items to order in London

November 22

• Every college nickname The Rock claims to have had
• It's time to delete your social media
• Footballers with unusual post-football jobs
• "For the whole of June 1983 I was forced to listen to nothing but John Coltrane": Questlove talks jazz, Jacko & future tech
• Why the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel won't have any Targaryens – and probably no dragons
• You can make your Apple Watch look like an iPod with this awesome gadget
• Danny Wallace on analysing predictions about the future

November 21

• Why swearing is flipping great
• These are the best films and TV shows coming to Netflix UK in December
• Instagram now has a feature to stop you spending too long on Instagram
• One of the most famous 'Black Mirror' episodes is becoming a board game
• 'The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part' trailer is full of Pratts

November 20

• When we all end up eating each other, how will we taste?
• Crypto crisis: Bitcoin just plummeted to its lowest point of 2018
• Danny Dyer has gloriously taken down Boris Johnson & Nigel Farage over Brexit
• You can buy a shirt of that weird, non-existent metal band and help a good cause
• This side-by-side video shows just how much Rami Malek nailed his Freddie Live Aid performance

November 19

• The real John Lewis stars in Twitter's admittedly great Christmas advert
• It turns out the Finns are excellent at trolling Donald Trump
• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's face - oh but it's made out of 725 Rubik's cubes
• How do bodybuilders find love?
• There's going to be a reboot of 'The Office'... or is there?

November 16

• Spuriously speculating which of J. J. Abrams’ 6 new projects will end up being surprise 'Cloverfield' films

November 15

• An actual US governor just tried to blame America's gun problems on zombie TV shows
• Mark Hamill tried to support female politicians and the awful internet completely missed the point
• The Jack Reacher author has one (small) problem with Tom Cruise, and you can probably guess it
• Zayn Malik just confirmed a weird (and sad) Taylor Swift theory we didn’t actually think was true
• The dark side of fashion
• The most popular beer in the world is from Asia
• 7 things to get monogrammed
• Win a bespoke suit and copies of Jeeves and the King of Clubs
• Danny Wallace on the difficulty of giving away freebies

November 14

• Best new menswear this week - Nov 12
• These are the luxury Mars homes we'll live in when we flee earth - probably
• Was 'The Inbetweeners' ever truly acceptable?
• Stan Lee was working on a weird sounding new character when he died: Dirt Man
• Can’t find the words? This website will let you create your own horrific emoji
• The unexpected voice of the Green Goblin in ‘Spider-Man New Generation’ has been revealed
• Narcos: Mexico's Diego Luna: “A part of us enjoys watching people hurt each other"

November 13

• Does this super dark 'Star Wars' theory explain what happened to Rey's parents?
• Ranking all the pokemon in the 'Detective Pikachu' trailer by how much you'd want to go for a pint with them
• PlayStation may be completely changing their iconic controllers for the PS5
• How much time you should really spend on social media, according to study
• Everything we know so far about 'Game of Thrones' Season 8
• Dan Snow's Train Delay Playlist
• Here's how the Avengers paid tribute to Stan Lee
• The late, great Stan Lee had some pretty inspiring thoughts about racism
• 5 great gadgets to help you crush winter
• There's a new kind of Instagram influencer and you’re probably one of them

November 12

• 5 clues as to what that weird spoon thing is in the first 'Toy Story 4' trailer
• A metal band faked their way to a massive European tour and it just went spectacularly wrong
• 21 best 'Red Dead Redemption 2' cheat codes and how to use them
• John Williams releases new version of classic Star Wars theme, sadly not a trap remix
• Two burgers are better than one
• Wu-Tang flavoured Clarks’ Wallabee
• 5 big, bright coats for autumn
• Win a festive bundle worth over £170

November 11

• The much-maligned 'Waterworld' is now on Netflix - this is why it's worth a reappraisal
• Could the midterm election results help get ‘Making a Murderer’s’ Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey out of jail?

November 09

• Screen: From 'Widows' to 'Outlaw King' - the film & TV you need to know about this week
• 12 big coats to keep you toasty
• What would it feel like if The Rock was your dad?
• The story of the forefathers of English football wiped out in the First World War - and the Brazilian team they inspired
• Urgent: Jim'll Paint It has created his greatest work yet
• A successor to Vine has been announced and is launching next spring
• Stareouts, traffic light romances & Billie Piper fan clubs: The overlooked genius of 'Big Train'
• David Attenborough is presenting an epic new Netflix nature series called ‘Our Planet’
• There's an animated prequel to 'Jurassic World' on the way
• "It's about taste; about the human in a digital world": How luxury became normal
• The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix because of 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'

November 08

• Samsung are the newest company to unveil a foldable phone
• We asked ambassadors to give us their top dinner party tips
• Discarded mattresses? Instagram gold
• Scrooge McDuck might be rich - but is he happy?
• 5 drinking culture lessons
• George RR Martin had a lil’ spat with HBO over the 'Game of Thrones' spinoff name
• This Dutch Tinder user has come up with a truly novel way to boost his matches
• Brian Cox was challenged to sum up science in two minutes and did it in one tweet
• What makes a footballer a luxury player?
• It looks like the 'Breaking Bad' movie will follow Jesse Pinkman
• The ultimate guide to a weekend in Cologne
• Danny Wallace on how to do luxury properly

November 07

• We hunted for the most luxurious things in existence
• Can Tim Berners-Lee really save the internet?
• The best new menswear you can buy this week - November 5
• We asked Chromeo to give us their 10 steps to achieve world peace
• The Collins Dictionary have named the 'word of the year' - how many times have you said it?
• Benedict Cumberbatch has one big 'Avengers: Infinity War' regret
• A dead brothel owner won an election in Nevada last night... by a landslide
• An eagle-eyed viewer has spotted a glaring error in 'I'm Alan Partridge'
• Why the midterm results could actually be good news for Trump
• 'Shrek' is going to be rebooted, with the original cast
• Game Of Thrones actor Pilou Asbaek thinks we should "blame more sh*t on old people"

November 06

• Weird space object spotted last year could have been an alien, say actual scientists
• Someone tried to blame tube overcrowding on immigrants and people were not happy
• The house used in 'The Haunting of Hill House' is, unsurprisingly, actually haunted
• Uber is bringing out a Prime-style monthly subscription scheme
• 5 great luxury gadgets to spruce up the home and break the bank
• If you have one of these names you’re going to be earning the big bucks
• Spirits worth spending money on
• The world's first foldable smartphone is finally, actually here
• Bitcoin is 10 years old: Here’s how much you’d have made if you invested in 2008
• The 50 greatest Sir Alex Ferguson quotes
• Netflix and BBC finalise plans to ruin childhoods everywhere with rabbit horror miniseries
• The 'Gladiator' sequel you didn’t ask for looks like it’s happening anyway

November 05

• Everyone is having the same annoying thought after watching 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
• Win one of three Drinks By The Dram Whisky Advent Calendars worth £150 each
• Is 'The Walking Dead' about to turn into the new Marvel?
• 19 unusual Christmas jumpers to see you through the festive season
• 5 touristy restaurants worth a visit
• This is why some people are wearing white poppies - or no poppies at all
• Nick Cave gives incredibly powerful response when asked about his son's death
• Rob Delaney's Train Delay Playlist
• This Swede has given a brilliant list of reasons to never visit Britain
• Everyone is laughing at this hilarious sculpture of Mo Salah
• 6 of the best city breaks you probably haven't thought of

November 02

• It turns out we've been rooting for the wrong guys in superhero movies all this time
• We have devastating news about The Rock, pineapples and pizza
• 5 London runs to finish with a pint
• Tom Hanks says the emotional ending of ‘Toy Story 4’ is going to be ‘a moment in history’
• Avril Lavigne has debunked that conspiracy theory that she's actually dead, but has she really?
• This is how 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 is officially going to start
• Mike Myers has great news for ‘Austin Powers’ fans
• 10 cheap London lunchtime eats
• 5 jazz venues in London

November 01

• Screen: From 'House of Cards' to 'The Nutcracker' - the film & TV you need to know about this week
• I asked a feng shui expert to analyse Jamiroquai's 'Virtual Insanity' video to explain my long-standing unease with it
• Here’s how to avoid being caught out by Ryanair’s new luggage rules
• Drinking at breakfast time in airports is amazing, please don't take it away from us
• Here's everything you actually need to know about the upcoming US midterm elections
• Was it really better in the old days?
• That ‘House of Cards’ spinoff we hoped we were getting has been ditched
• The 5 best London winter food pop-ups
• There's going to be a sequel to 'The Meg', because WE WANT MORE SHARKS
• Here's everything we know about the new 'Game of Thrones' spinoff prequel series
• Why running is for chumps, according to Danny Wallace
• Does MMA have an alt-right problem?