2017 marked the year that the bitcoin finally entered the mainstream. If you’re the kind of early adopter who stays on top of the latest trading technology or the gradual shift away from standard currencies then you’ve been aware of the bitcoin and other digital currencies since they began to ...
Well as far as years go this was certainly one of them. I recall remarking somewhere around the end of 2016, the year when All the Celebrities Died, that we would some day look back at that year as the Good Old Days. Who knew that would almost be immediate? ...
Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week ...
I’ve never been one to tamper with Wikipedia entries, but if I was the first thing I’d do is refer all traffic for the page “2017” to the one entitled “reap what one sows”. The page, which is depicted by John F. Knott’s “It Shoots Further Than He Dreams”, seems ...
With Dunkirk sitting comfortably in many of this year’s top 10 best of 2017 lists, it seems fitting to revisit another great World War 2 film. Stuart Cooper’s Overlord, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, is a quiet, elegiac tale that took the Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale upon ...
Hollywood may be slowly stumbling towards a more equal society, but the dearth in female representation both in front of and behind the camera remains plain to see. Indeed, it’s telling – and indeed quite troubling – that many end of year film lists remain almost exclusively populated by the ...
A pair of Doctor Who fans received letters from Peter Capaldi on the day of his show departure -- assuring them he will be "always there, somewhere in time and space". Brothers David McGilloway, nine, and Tom, 11, couldn't believe their eyes when they opened the personal messages on Christmas ...
This incredible six foot snow teddy was built in a back garden in just five hours. Chris Handscomb, 28, set to work building the impressive sculpture after he awoke to discover scenes reminiscent of a winter wonderland outside his bedroom window. Heavy snow engulfed the Cotswolds and surrounding areas after ...
A high flying executive who was called 'pikey', 'gyppo' and 'paddy' during board meetings has been awarded nearly £300,000 by an employment tribunal. Father-of-one Edward Bell, 52, was also told he looked like a "tinker" and asked where he had left his "horse and cart" - before being wrongfully fired ...