Allergic to modern life

We’ve never had it so bad, apparently.
Around a third of people living in the UK will develop a serious allergy in the near future and yet we have fallen way behind the rest of Europe in diagnosing, understanding and treating such ailments, according to a House of Lords report.
Allergic diseases have trebled in the last [...]

Time to make reality TV illegal

Who says judges are out of touch?
I can’t help but side with Judge Alan Berg who has lambasted the loathsome Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV as nothing more than a form of “human bear-baiting“.
The judge spoke after imposing a £300 fine on a man who head-butted a lodger who had had an affair with his [...]

London loses its Monopoly

You just knew there would be tears and tantrums when the makers of Monopoly announced an on-line poll to create a UK-wide version of the popular board game.
Inevitably, the likes of Liverpool and Leeds are left grumbling and moaning about the fact that they occupy Monopoly’s equivalent of the cheap seats - Old Kent Road [...]

Here is the news…but according to who?

The news we choose to go searching for on the internet is often radically different from the agenda set for us by the mainsteam media.
That is the conclusion of a major new US study into what made the headlines in the mainstream media and the most popular stories on three user-driven news sources.
The report from the Project for [...]

Sony’s woes continue to mount up

They say bad news comes in threes, but Sony’s list of troubles seems to be getting longer.
The Japanese electronics giant, one of the most recognisable and powerful brands in the world, has revealed a security flaw in some of its products that could leave PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.
Sony maintains the flaw is in [...]