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• Your Essential Guide to the Barclays Premier League Relegation Dogfight

  

  QPR fans celebrate a goal at Cardiff, 2011. Photo credit: Jon Candy Manchester United’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa means they are now five points clear of... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Chancellor George Osborne’s Tax Cap Plans Draw Fury of Charities, but Should...

  

  George Osborne: More Budget woes. Photo credit: The Prime Minister's Office. Fresh from the ‘granny tax’ uproar, the UK government is facing another Budget... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Bahrain GP Gets FIA Green Light, Have F1 Organisers Shown Lack of Moral Courage?

  

  Michael Schumacher driving for Mercedes GP during a practices session in Bahrain, 2010. Photo credit: Andrew Griffith FIA, Formula 1’s governing body, has... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, MOTO, SOCIETY, SPORTS

• Just How Bad is Britain’s Drought? Some Predict Standpipes in the Streets and...

  

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink? photo: likeablerodent Half of Britain is in the grip of a drought that may last beyond Christmas, according... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Manchester United Will Not Be Moved and Four Other Things You Need to Know...

  

  Old Trafford. Photo credit: Edwin.11 Manchester United hold their nerve. Manchester City’s 6-1 demolition of Norwich City on Saturday cut Manchester United’s... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Inside the Catlin Art Prize: Showcasing the Best of Britain’s Young Talent

  

  Jonny Briggs, Natural Inside. Photo credit: Catlin The sixth Catlin Art Prize kicks off next month at the Londonewcastle Project Space on Redchurch Street,... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• How to Spend It: The ‘most Expensive’ Stuff Making the News This Week

  

  Money to burn? Photo credit: Purpleslog According to press release from the Financial Times, downloads of the paper’s How to Spend It iPad app just surpassed... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• It’s Goodbye to Rick ‘sweater Vest’ Santorum: The Social Conservative Bows out

  

  Rick Santorum. Photo credit: Michael Righi This week, former Pennsylvania senator and social conservative Rick Santorum announced he was dropping out of the rac... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Are You Having a Bad Day? Then These Animals Won’t Make You Feel Any Better

  

  This rabbit is not impressed. From Buzzfeed. Hey. You know when you’ve done wrong. And these 33 animals certainly know that you’ve done wrong too. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 HUMOR

• Boris Johnson Pulls Anti-gay Ads from London Buses; Homophobia and Freedom of...

  

  Boris Johnson: pulled anti-gay ads. Photocredit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/surreynews/6779397940/sizes/z/in/photostream/ A Christian organisation, the Core... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CURRENT, LGBTQ, SOCIETY

• The Casual Vacancy, J K Rowling’s New Novel, Sees a Parish Councillor Dying....

  

  Voldemort: Still at large? As Harry Potter fans delight in the knowledge that the sainted J K Rowling is about to publish an adult novel about a parish council... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 BOOKS, HUMOR

• Harry Potter Author J K Rowling Announces Title of New, Adult Book: The Casual...

  

  Whomping wands, everybody! Wizard-writer J K Rowling's announced what her new book, The Casual Vacancy, will be about. Hold your horses... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• North Korea Rocket Launch Fails; the West Condemns, Whilst Pressure Falls on...

  

  North Korea's much-vaunted rocket launch has failed. But the world is still jittery. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Charles Manson Denied Parole Again – but Where Are His Followers, the Notorious...

  

  Charles Manson in 1969. Mass murder Charles Manson was denied parole for the 12th time on Wednesday, after parole board members concluded that the 1960s cult... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Viral Video: Henri Le Chat and His Deep, Mournful Ennui

  

  Well, I'm still here. No one can understand the painful ennui of existence like the French. Except perhaps a French cat. “I am free to go. Yet I remain.” More... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Cautious Optimism in Breakaway Republic Transnistria with Its Very Own...

  

  An interview with the Obama of Transnistria, Yevgeny Shevchuk: What the new president wants for the breakaway region. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• What Might Space Dinosaurs Look Like?

  

  The T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Is he out there, ruling worlds we cannot see? After a paper by Columbia University chemist Ronald Breslow reveals that there... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• America’s Most Racially Divisive Trials: From Rodney King to Emmett Till, the...

  

  Trayvon Martin's parents at New York protest rally. Photo credit: David Shankbone via flickr America has seen more than its share of trials that reveal the... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Zimmerman Arrested, Charged with Second-Degree Murder

  

  Now that he is behind bars, what will happen next? Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• Giant Cunning Space Lizards Rule Other Worlds! Er, Or Maybe Not

  

  A study by a chemist at Columbia University posits the existence of GIANT INTELLIGENT SPACE DINOSAURS Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CURRENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY