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Album: Reverend and the Makers, @Reverend_Makers (Cooking Vinyl)
Sunday 17 June 2012
Sheffield's John McClure is never happier than when he's having it both ways, quoting Leonard Cohen while pushing the buttons of a demographic more attuned to Sacha Baron Cohen.
Were you fooled? The best of the April Fools' Day jokes
Sunday 01 April 2012
The newspapers have outdone themselves with an eclectic collection of April Fools' Day japes, but were you taken in?
Letter from the editor: A proper Mancunian Miserabilist
Monday 13 June 2011
In my letter on Saturday (Yes. Didn't you know? We're open for business on a Saturday, too), I solicited your ideas for a guest editor for i in the wake of the Archbishop of Canterbury's rather successful effort in the chair at the New Statesman.
Dave Gorman: Games for a laugh
Thursday 02 June 2011
Dave Gorman's latest left-field comedy quest saw him visiting fans to challenge them at board games. But not everyone played by the rules, he tells Nick Duerden
Shaun Ryder's lyrical confusion
Monday 31 January 2011
Shaun Ryder doesn't understand his own songs.
The Feral Beast: How to play the Zadie Smith game
Sunday 19 December 2010
Zadie Smith hasn't been keen on Evening Standard hack Sebastian Shakespeare since his 2002 piece headlined: "We reveal what the famously guarded young author would rather you didn't know".
Sunday show for Chiles
Saturday 11 December 2010
Adrian Chiles is to present a new Sunday night talk show with regular guests including the former deputy prime minister John Prescott, musician Shaun Ryder and football manager Harry Redknapp.
Chiles to present new Sunday night talk show
Friday 10 December 2010
Adrian Chiles will present a new Sunday night talk show with regular guests including former deputy pm John Prescott, musician Shaun Ryder and football manager Harry Redknapp.
Album: Shaun Ryder, XXX Thirty Years of Bellyaching (Rhino)
Friday 10 December 2010
It's taken a reality-TV show for Shaun Ryder to finally be cast in the best light – and not just in terms of his character.
Mr Happy goes native: Dom Joly reveals what he learnt in the ‘I'm A Celebrity’ jungle
Thursday 09 December 2010
For 20 days, Dom Joly withstood the tarantulas and tantrums of 'I'm a Celebrity', his moves controlled by a jungle army of 500. So what did he learn?
Ian Holloway: Referees need technical help, not our abuse
Sunday 28 November 2010
I sympathise with the Scottish strike and I won't criticise men in black anymore – it costs too much
Editor-At-Large: Hail the Maria Callas of our times! Gillian's got it taped
Sunday 28 November 2010
This year's 'I'm a Celebrity...' is the best modern drama around
Snake bites Lembit Opik on Celebrity challenge
Thursday 25 November 2010
Former MP Lembit Opik has been bitten by a snake while enduring the latest I'm A Celebrity challenge.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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