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Do you scrunch or fold? Should the roll be under or over? Do you take a book or read the newspaper? I haven't said it yet, but you already know exactly what I'm talking about. The loo. Toilet. Dunny. Crapper. Lav. Powder room.…

Tuesday 4th November Word count: prolific Lorna fired me from Gala. She cried and said she’s never fired anyone before, because people always quit first. That made me feel shit. The average Gala employee has the…

Our weekly look at the latest news and trailers from the world of film features Martin Luther King getting in a fight, South African rap mentalists Die Antwoord acting with a robot and a look at a decent way to spend 10 hours in front of…

Tuesday 28th October My brother is moving in with Xbox girl. Mother thinks this is a great idea, despite the fact that he has no job and as far as we know, met her two weeks ago. She said “isn't young love grand.” Which made it…

Those looking for an enjoyable scare for the Halloween season are unlikely to seek one out in a European medieval manuscript. Those things are stuffy and deeply religious, right? It would just be silly to look for anything creepy…

The story of how Margaret Keane became one of the most successful artists in America that nobody had ever heard of is both fascinating and terribly sad. For over 20 years Margaret was a virtual slave to her husband Walter who took the…

So you’ve decided you want to get a Ph.D. in science and you’re wondering what to do next. You aren’t sure which program to choose, how to select a mentor, how to make it to the other side with your regalia intact. Why dedicate…

Norman Marshall stretched and sighed, the bones in his shoulders and back cracking like gunshots. It had been a long flight and he needed a shower and a cup of coffee, but instead of sitting at his breakfast bar in his bathrobe, Norman…

This is a great idea dreamt up by Cassie Delaney and Aoife Price. For mental health awareness they basically get people to write a letter to themselves, telling the younger version of themselves the advice that they think they would have…

A quirky, dysfunctional family drama that tells the story of a kid being pushed into something she doesn't want to do by an overbearing father. The arrival of a character coping with a failed suicide attempt stirs it all up. This is not an…