To Russia with love

Manchester United versus Chelsea in the Champions League final then. First things first: huge apologies to the good people of Moscow. When the Russian powers that be gave the OK for Luzhniki Stadium to host the game, they no doubt had a glorious festival of football in mind: the cosmopolitan teams of, say, Barcelona and [...]

The new wave of kidnapping

How likely are you to be kidnapped in Britain? How about if you travel on business? We strapped Tony Teasdale into a chair and shone a torch into his eyes until he came up with the answers. In countries like China, India and South Korea the number of ‘high net worth individuals’ is rising at [...]

Ad nauseam

I’m of the unpopular opinion that the the Cadbury’s drumming gorilla advert was rubbish. Man in ape suit sits about for a full minute, apparently ‘in the zone’, drums thirty second opening bars to early ’80s hit. Fade to title. Hardly worth 1,000 tribute videos on YouTube and an advert of the year award, is [...]

Raef to win

It’s week eight of The Apprentice, and what have we learnt so far? That nobody knows what kosher means (but a ‘holy man’ might be involved), that the people of Guildford pay too much for their soup, that attempting to bribe a Moroccan tennis-racket stringer never pays, and nobody, but nobody understands how percentages work. It’s [...]

Isn?t it Bionic

Admittedly, it’s irony only by the Alanis Morissette school: a black fly in your chardonnay, rain on your wedding day, a Slater sister becomes a superhero. But there it is: Michelle Ryan, formerly of Eastenders, has hit the big time in America playing the title role in the new series of Bionic Woman. The show [...]