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The coolest Wrapping Paper on the web
Over at the Flashbak Shop , they’ve got what might be the coolest wrapping paper ever. With designs by the likes of Ernst Haeckel, Louis Wain, Gustav Klimt and Wassily Kandinsky, your gift wil...
William Nicholson’s London Types
William Nicholson designed his ‘London Types ‘ in 1898. Printmaker William Nicholson worked in partnership with his brother-in-law James Pryde, under the pseudonym the Beggarstaff Brothers . ...
Lost pinhole camera takes world’s longest exposure photograph
The beer can pinhole camera spent eight years capturing a solargraph at the University of Hertfordshire ’s Bayfordbury Observatory. The final image records the sun’s movement in 2,953 light ...
The best vegan-friendly, fair wear organic cotton T-Shirts
These organic cotton -T-shirts from Flashbak are environmentally safe, fair wear and vegan friendly. The organic T-Shirt carries the The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) label, the leading ...
The apostrophe is dead – again
The apostrophe is to become extinct, says the Telegraph, as language becomes less formal. The Apostrophiser should find more work. The language fan been correcting the misuse of apostrophes i...
‘Boris Johnson look-a-like’ jailed for theft in Yorkshire
Boris Johnson ‘look-a-like’ Jason Watson has been jailed. Unless Jason is running the country and the Prime Minister is now giving her Majesty no end of pleasure for the next ten months…? N...
Zac Goldsmith – look out, another elite posho wants to save the planet
Zac Goldsmith is the UK environment minister. He’s chuffed to bits about the “unprecedented” conservation deal by more than 100 world leaders to halt and reverse deforestation and land degr...
The most batshit insane European Commission video ever
> this is the most batshit insane European Commission video I've ever > seen pic.twitter.com/9eDw4Q3nxX — 🍂 > John Hyphen🌧️ (@JohnHyphen) June 11, 2018 > Did you...
Georg Bartisch’s fabulous eye surgery illustrations from the 16th Century
In 1583, Georg Bartisch (1535–1607), a German physician, produced the first Renaissance manuscript on ophthalmic disorders and eye surgery. The book, Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst, disc...
The Kilroy supercut is must-see TV
In 1986, Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk; 19 May 1942) left the House of Commons, where he’d served as a Labou a MP, to present a new daytime talk show, Kilroy, which ran u...
After Afghanistan and the War on Terror: US State Department works hard for US State Department
Fox News says the US State Department is blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan. Well, the government would, no? After all, it makes them look looks as though they’re in cont...
Jean Paul Belmondo – ‘Everyone wants to say he’s flattened Belmondo.’
À bout de souffle, or Breathless in the English speaking world, shot Jean Paul Belmondo to international stardom along with the whole genre of the French New Wave movies. When Belmondo accepted ...
When and why Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, by Keith Richards
Charlie Watts has died. The coolest and best looking Rolling Stone by far. In Keith’s autobiography, we get a bit of Charlie we can admire: Spotter: Andrew Beasley
20 years of nailing it Afghanistan – watch four culpable US presidents bullshit the world
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan has been led by the US-led retreat from the country ruled by the Taliban, just as it was when the US went in. It’s been 20 years of waste, thousands of lost l...
Cool Cats & Red Devils – brilliant photographs of British football fans in the 1970s
Iain S P Reid’s fantastic photos of British football fans in the 1970s are going to be in our new book. You can back Cool Cats & Red Devils at the Kickstarter . Please do – it’s a great pro...
Prints of Kawanabe Kyōsai’s erotic Japanese scrolls
Kawanabe Kyōsai Prints (1831-1889) was a Japanese artist born into the age of feudalism and maturing into the Meiji period, when the country became a modern state. Nicknamed “The Painting Demo...
Matt Hancock hot take – Brexit did it
Matt Hancock has gone. They waited and waited until Covid was under control then defenestrated hapless Hancock from the health ministry. His sex-life made headlines. But his private life is his o...
Rudolph Kalvach prints and T-shirts
Rudolf Kalvach (1883-1932) was the Austrian artist whose youthful expressionism made him a mainstay of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), the group established in 1903 by graphic design...
Fabulous prints of British kids in the 1980s
For many in the UK the 1980s was a time of turmoil and upheaval. Unemployment and economic instability led to widespread disquiet which culminated in public shows of resistance. Dave Sinclair to...
Good Morning Britain eats itself: Tony Blair mouthpiece interviews Tony Blair
Having sacked Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain invited Tony Blair’s old spin doctor Alastair Campbell to replace him. This morning Campbell interviewed Blair. They talked about Labour. And lo...
The fake ‘John Lewis furniture nightmare’ and Dubya’s plastic turkey
This April you could read Tatler’s story on the fiancée of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 32-year-old Carrie Symonds, “the most powerful woman in Britain, reportedly shaping her partner’s t...
Brands not fans killed Super League
Super League had a naff name and an agenda based on greed. Told the billionaires had been plotting the heist for years, you boggle at how ignorant so many mega-rich people can be. They ignored th...
The European Super League is a FTSE for Football – bring it on!
On the telly, the latest Tory housing minister and a Labour MP whose name escapes everyone are lamenting the new European Super League, a new tournament featuring most of the continent’s riches...
Making Japanese prints – a lovely video
Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e ) are routinely gorgeous . But how are they made? Master printmaker Keiji Shinohara shows us how in this great video. Lead image: Eight Shadow Figures, c...
The Glorious 12th: Metro tabloid creates contender for worst front-page headline of all time
There’s been rioting in Northern Ireland. But not to worry because you can get some noodles in a cafe on Monday. It’s the ‘Glorious 12th’ in The Metro. Yeah, really. Who writes The Metro...