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I’ve been a freelance journalist for a little over a year now and can’t help noticing that it’s taking a hell of a lot longer to get paid than it did when I had a full-time job. In fact, I’ve found that during the last year it’s actually taken 49 days, on average, between invoicing [...]

Last weekend my girlfriend bought a coat from TK Maxx in Stockport that contains fur. You wouldn’t know by looking at it, since the fur is on the inside. TK Maxx doesn’t have a particularly good track record in this area. The chain has been caught out previously, selling real fur marked up as fake. Others have [...]

I see there’s a new trailer for Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow on. It consists of McIntyre making some observation about revolving doors or DIY or flushing the toilet and then has a caption that says “Ring any bells?” Like the fact these things that happen to him also sometimes happen to other people makes it [...]

Help me. I’m worried I may be one of those “Morrissey apologists” you sometimes hear about. None of my best friends are Morrissey, yet I can’t help empathise with the erstwhile Smiths frontman. To make matters worse, I’ve got form in this area. Three years ago when, in an NME interview, Morrissey expressed some rather [...]