I've just realised: Lily Allen is Bill Bailey's 'cockney medley' sketch, only serious. I mean that as a compliment, because her cover of 'Everybody's Changing' by Keane is quite lovely. It's surprising that it's so good, because Keane are the most insipid band in the world -- more insipid than Travis, or even Coldplay. Eugh. But somehow, played on ( Read more... )

I'm PSPACE-complete but I'll reduce you to 3-SAT.

Just to note, it looks like the White House are going to follow lieutenanth's suggestion:BBC: US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt. The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

Contraception use can cut crime: there's a statistically significant relationship between greater use of contraception and decreased crime 17 years later [...] Where contraception isn't used, there'll be more unwanted births. And unwanted children are more likely to commit crime
It seems that if you allow people to choose when to reproduce, they'll ( Read more... )

Cannabis chocolate trio convicted:"Three people have been found guilty of supplying thousands of cannabis-laced chocolate bars to multiple sclerosis sufferers for pain relief ( Read more... )

On the Ipswich murders, Richard Littlejohn says what I'm sure we're all secretly thinking:
It might not be fashionable, or even acceptable in some quarters, to say so, but in their [the victims'] chosen field of "work", death by strangulation is an occupational hazard ( Read more... )

This is the best music video ever:

Billie-Jo family seeks law change.
The natural family of Billie-Jo Jenkins wants the law changed so it can bring a civil action against her foster father Sion Jenkins, it has told the BBC ( Read more... )

Top 10 Naked People on Google Earth. Phwoar!

(Post title from the excellent song found here)

Stewart Lee is probably my favourite comedian in the world. I'm pretty much obliged to like him and Richard Herring because I've stolen so much of their material over the years that they could destroy me if they ever found out about it. Sadly, their shows seem to have fallen entirely down the memory hole -- it's difficult to imagine a section ( Read more... )