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The 19 Rules Of Playing Football When You're A Kid

BuzzFeed UK 29 April 2013

From 'rush keeper' to Wembley doubles. Because 'jumpers for goalposts' is only the start of it…
Why People Attended The 'Thatcher Is Dead' Street Party (In Their Own Words)

BuzzFeed UK 04/09/2013

News of Margaret Thatcher's death saw more than 200 people throw an impromptu street party in Brixton, the scene of two violent riots that marred the former prime minister's years in power. In a divided country, some considered...
'Book Of Mormon': How Two Cult Cartoon Potty Mouths Reinvented Musical Theatre

The Huffington Post UK 03/18/2013

The most eye-catching poster plastered on billboards these past six months has undoubtedly been for 'The Book Of Mormon', the comedy musical that opens in the UK this week. It’s not so much the amusing image of a leaping...
Black Mirror 'White Bear' (REVIEW)

The Huffington Post UK 02/19/2013

The first 45 minutes of White Bear, the second episode of Charlie Brooker's trilogy of technology-fearing dystopias, played out like a low-budget, low-quality version of 28 Days Later. It's basically the worst thing he's ever...
Should Men Be Offended By Rate-A-Man Apps Like Lulu?

The Huffington Post UK 02/27/2013

Mobile phone apps encouraging women to 'train' their boyfriends like pets and rate unsuspecting men on their looks are on the rise: but is it offensive, or all just a bit of fun...? As a white, straight, middle class,...
Roy Lichtenstein: Retrospective At Tate Modern (REVIEW)

The Huffington Post UK 02/18/2013

Roy Lichtenstein died in 1997, when the internet was still only a 100,000 or so websites, before anyone had 'Googled' anything and broadband was nothing more than a geek's wet dream. And so he never lived to see how, today,...
How Tony Blair and Iraq Robbed a Generation of Their Faith in Politics

The Huffington Post UK 02/07/2013

I imagine for many people alive today, the great politicising event of their childhood came in the form of a tragedy. The first dreadful hammer of the Luftwaffe passing overhead, the panicked screams at the Dealey Plaza or the...
Iraq Anniversary: How War Poetry Played A Part In The War In Iraq

The Huffington Post UK 02/07/2013

When you think of war poetry, you’re usually drawn to the literary icons of the early 20th Century. To John McCrae’s young soldiers who ‘loved and were loved, and now lie in Flanders fields’, Wilfred Owen’s Doomed Youth, with...
Why I Quit Twitter

The Huffington Post UK 02/01/2013

Fifteen, if you're interested. That's how many days it takes to stop 'twinking' - a new term I'm adding to the Twitter slang book meaning 'think in tweets' (file next to: 'twanking'). Fifteen days into my self-imposed break...
America's Greatest Living Poet Sharon Olds On Winning The TS Eliot Prize, Divorce And Being A 'Confessional' Poet

The Huffington Post UK 01/15/2013

For all the experimentation with form and subject in the books on the TS Eliot shortlist this year - from Sean Borodale's documentary poems about bee keeping to Simon Armitage's translation of a 15th century poem - in the end,...
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12 Jokes Made Up By Kids That Will Make You Smile

BuzzFeed UK April 26 2013

Tumblr badkidsjokes collects entries to a kids joke website that didn't make the grade, mainly because they don't make any sense. Unless, that is, you have the brilliant imagination of a kid. None of the following have been...
Can You Make It Through This Post Without Your Brain Melting?

BuzzFeed UK 25 April 2013

OK. Let's get your brain warmed up with some 'impossible objects'
19 Things Northerners Miss When They Move To London

BuzzFeed UK 22 April 2013

For centuries, people from the north of England have left to find fame and fortune in more illustrious parts of the world. But where ever they end up, they always find themselves missing the same things about home...
17 Of The Wisest Things Stephen Fry Has Ever Said

BuzzFeed UK 18 April 2013

Life, love and happiness according to the UK's favourite clever clogs.
Interviews
Charlie Brooker: What Inspires Me

The Huffington Post UK 11/07/2012

Author, newspaper columnist and TV presenter Charlie Brooker tells us about the writers that have that inspired him, his thoughts on the US election and why today, he mainly reads baby books...
Kate Tempest, The Most Exciting Young Writer In Britain

The Huffington Post UK 09/12/2012

About seven years ago I sat in the comedy tent at Leeds festival waiting to see the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke, when a short, young-looking blonde girl in baggy jeans and a scruffy jumper came on stage and...
Meet Saber, The Graffiti Artist Taking On Mitt Romney One Skyline At A Time

The Huffington Post UK 09/09/2012

At Nuart Festival in Norway HuffPost UK spoke with Saber, one the best-known graffiti artists in the world who can't reveal his real name. We found out why he's campaigning against Mitt Romney's 'coup' of his country, why he's...
David Blunkett, David Aaronovitch, Ruth Padel At HowTheLightGetsIn Festival

The Huffington Post UK 06/07/2012

Every summer in Britain we flock in our thousands to outdoor festivals promising music, comedy and theatre, always hoping to experience those sublime moments that occur when strangers are united for a good time. But what about...
John Lanchester, Claire Tomalin, Kate Williams At Althorp Literary Festival

The Huffington Post UK 06/21/2012

Beneath indecisive skies, buffeted by blustery British winds, the glorious Althorp House opened its door this week for its 9th annual literary festival. Uniting the public with some of the biggest names in literature in the...
Orange Prize Winner Madeline Miller On Why The Classics Deserve Their Revival

The Huffington Post UK 05/31/2012

Last night a new star of fiction was born out of an ancient story. In a quiet room in the back of London's Southbank Centre, where moments before she’d been awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of...
Bond Author Jeffery Deaver On 007's Past, Present And Future

The Huffington Post UK 05/24/2012

Last year Jeffery Deaver became the latest author to conjure up a new adventure for the world's most famous spy, James Bond. Only the second American writer to become a custodian of Ian Fleming's legacy, Deaver decided to...
Jodi Kantor On The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage

The Huffington Post UK 02/01/2012

Jodi Kantor’s new book The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage is the story of America’s first couple and how their relationship has struggled to adapt to the strains of life in the White House. Sparking debate in Washington and...
David Lammy On Out Of The Ashes

The Huffington Post UK 12/14/2011

In this video interview, MP for Tottenham David Lammy discusses his new book Out Of The Ashes, a response to the summer riots that rocked Britain. Speaking not just as the political representative but a life-long resident of...
Jonathan Ross On His Graphic Novel Turf

The Huffington Post UK 11/27/2011

Jonathan Ross is wet. I don't mean that metaphorically - his handshake is as robust as it looks on television - but in the literal sense. He's just been forced to walk through a biblical blast of Autumn rain because his taxi...
Dr Ozzy: 'I'm More Likely To Bite The Head Off A Lettuce These Days'

The Huffington Post UK 11/22/2011

What becomes of our rock and roll heroes? Some die young and remain as we remember them forever, others grow old and end up selling us car insurance - but only one so far has found a new career as a doctor (well, sort of...). ...
Humour
A Swearing Lesson For John Terry

The Huffington Post UK 07/13/2012

John Terry may have been found not guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, but one thing that's been made abundantly clear throughout the course of the trial is the pitiful state of banter that pervades the top tier of our...
Embarrassing Books: The Ten Main Causes Of Biblio Blushing

The Huffington Post UK 06/29/2012

We've all been there. Sat on a packed commuter train, you reach into your bag and slide out your latest paperback with the caution of skeptic picking a magician's card... ...unconsciously your knees go up and your fingers...
50 Shades Of Put It Away: The Worst Book Sex Scenes Ever

The Huffington Post UK 06/28/2012

The huge, throbbing success of 50 Shades Of Grey - the erotic novel that became a self-publishing phenomenon - has brought with it a fair share of criticism. From snide reviews to Twitter parodies, plenty have mocked the...
Books That Explain Men; Books That Explain Women

The Huffington Post UK 04/25/2012

The differences between the sexes is well-trodden ground for book publishers. Self-help sections are lined with hundreds of variations on Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, each one purporting to explain the pertinent...
Thanks A Bunch, St. Valentine

The Huffington Post UK 02/14/2012

Dear St. Valentine, Thanks a bunch, mate. Thanks for the makeshift stand of gaudy red sweets taunting me as I queue at the supermarket, my basket of single ingredients swinging in my hand...
Sod You, Movember Man

The Huffington Post UK 11/21/2011

Sod Movember. Yeah, you heard me. Sod it. Sod the suddenly bristly newsreaders scratching themselves on screen, sod the smug, self-congratulatory Facebook pictures of blossoming ironic moustaches - sod you, Movember Man,...
Features
Cut Up: Why Losing 100% Art Funding Could Ruin The North's Culture Capital

The Huffington Post UK 12/19/2012

Following news that Newcastle City Council is planning to cut 100% of its spending on arts and culture, former Newcastle resident Sam Parker returns to the city to find out how it will be affected, and questions the logic of...
The Reading Cure: How Books Are Being Used In The Battle Against Mental Illness

The Huffington Post UK 11/05/2012

The Huffington Post UK joins The Reader Organisation, a charity celebrating its tenth year helping people with mental health problems using a different type of therapy: cups of tea, a good old natter and characters from some of...
How A Quiet Norwegian Town Became The Home Of Global Graffiti Art

The Huffington Post UK 10/10/2012

On first reflection, street art from the mean streets of LA or London and a sleepy port town in Norway doesn't sound like a match made in heaven. But wander around Stavanger for a few hours, where for over a decade giant...
Living 24 Hours Like The Dice Man

The Huffington Post UK 07/30/2012

Who were you this weekend? I was a busker, an artist and a beard fetishist by day and by night, both the life and soul of a party and its dullest guest. I went places I'd never been before, talked to people I'd never met and...
Can An iPad Make You Paint Like David Hockney?

The Huffington Post UK 02/18/2012

Of the many delights awaiting those who have tickets for David Hockney's new blockbuster art show at the Royal Academy, perhaps the most surprising will be the The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate series. Why? Because here you'll...
The Real Cost Of Library Cuts

The Huffington Post UK 02/04/2012

To mark National Libraries Day, The Huffington Post UK travels to Newcastle upon Tyne where a soon-to-be demolished local library plays a vital role in a community already savaged by the economic crisis, to pose the question:...
The Easy Way To Be A Premiership Footballer

FHM 01/05/2011

There comes a time in most young men’s lives when they have to finally admit it: the chances of being signed for a Premiership club are not looking good. Not to rule it out completely, of course. Cut back on the 3am KFCs, take...
Three-Minute Poetry? It's All The Rage

The Times 12/16/2010

Rapid-fire ‘slam’ recitals with voting audiences are a big draw. Could this be the new X Factor? Every week in small theatres and pubs across Britain, poetry is being dragged back into popular culture by a new generation. The...
8 Roald Dahl Stories That Ought To Be Films But Aren't (Yet)

Empire 11/18/2009

With Wes Anderson's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox having given the London Film Festival its starriest opening day for years, Empire considers which of the wicked-minded author's other stories have yet to be...
Film-by-Film: Shane Meadows

Empire 10/08/2009

It almost works as a joke: what do you get if you cross the directorial vision of Shane Meadows with an advert for the Eurostar? Why, Somers Town, of course! When presented with an offer from the company to fund his next...
Horror Through The Decades: What Our Choice In Scary Movies Say About Us

Empire 09/09/2009

Ever since Max Schreck first curled his spindly fingernails around the milky frames of 1922's Nosferatu, horror movies have helped society face up to its deepest, scariest, most spider-shaped fears. In the relative safety of...
Art Reviews
Kelly Brook In Forever Crazy At Crazy Horse Cabaret (REVIEW)

The Huffington Post UK 11/02/2012

For almost two decades, through the death of a Princess, the rise and fall of four Prime Ministers, a war on terror, a global financial meltdown, expenses scandals, hacking scandals and the inexorable social changes wreaked by...
Turner Prize 2012 (REVIEW)

The Huffington Post UK 10/01/2012

Some years the scorn that usually greets any mention of the Turner Prize feels justified, a reflection of a show always good at creating headlines but often short on genuine artistic merit. Thankfully, 2012 is no such year. If...
Yoko Ono: To The Light

The Huffington Post UK 07/07/2012

Maybe it's the cynicism that pervades so much post-modern art. Maybe it's the 'world out there' being defined by its fiscal gloom and the glaring failures of capitalism. But when you walk into Yoko Ono's new exhibition To The...
Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye

The Huffington Post UK 06/26/2012

For a great many people, Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye will be a chance to decide if they should care about the artist for any other reason than the fact he painted the most famous artwork in the world. It’s rare that a painter...
The Queen: Art & Image

The Huffington Post UK 05/16/2012

Standing in a shop in Charing Cross Station on my way to see The Queen: Art & Image at The National Portrait Gallery, I happened to notice that the impulse shelf was stuffed with not 1 but 4 new books on Her Royal Highness. A...
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands

The Huffington Post UK 05/10/2012

The first voice you hear, should you pause at the headphone points dotted around the British Library’s new exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, belongs to the poet Simon Armitage. The man synonymous with West...
Damien Hirst At The Tate Modern

The Huffington Post UK 04/02/2012

Damien Hirst, the most famous artist in Britain, got to this ludicrous point – millions in the bank, a retrospective at the country’s premier modern art gallery, a role as our cultural Olympiad for heaven’s sake – by shocking...
Picasso And Modern British Art

The Huffington Post UK 02/14/2012

It's a good job art isn’t a particularly tribal pursuit, or Picasso and British Modern Art would be a pretty devastating show for the British public. This is a fantastic chance to see some landmark paintings by the...
Lucian Freud Portraits

The Huffington Post UK 02/07/2012

It’s only when you finally arrive at the paintings of Freud’s mother that the tension lets up. Here, in a small room midway through the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, she suddenly appears: Lucie, painted in the...
Yayoi Kusama At Tate Modern

The Huffington Post UK 02/02/2012

To say that Yayoi Kusama captures people’s imaginations is an understatement. From her time as a performance art provocateur sticking dots on naked New Yorkers in the 1960s to the rumour that her Obliteration Room installation...
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

The Huffington Post UK 01/17/2012

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day, the lead character observes: "The English landscape at its finest possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail...
Damien Hirst The Spot Prints

The Huffington Post UK 01/12/2012

There is something incorrigibly smug about the concept behind Damien Hirst’s The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, in which his trademark prints of multi-coloured dots are being shown across each of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven...
Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan

The Huffington Post UK 12/08/2011

The problem with the word 'genius' isn't only that we sometimes apply it to undeserving people, it's that we tend to use it as an explanation for why someone can do something that we can’t - the divine gift. The geniuses, of...
Book Reviews
The Good Father By Noah Hawley

The Huffington Post UK 03/03/2012

Noah Hawley's fourth novel, The Good Father, is his first to be published in the UK. A skim read of both his biography the synopsis of the novel could easily give readers the wrong idea of what to expect altogether. Here is an...
Out Of The Ashes By David Lammy

The Huffington Post UK 12/09/2011

Four months ago David Lammy walked through the aftermath of the August riots in Tottenham - 'each footstep meeting with the crunch of broken glass, bricks and debris... passed charred remains of two police cars and a...
Live Blogs
The Booker Prize 2012 (LIVE)

The Huffington Post UK 10/16/2012

Hollywood has the Oscars. Pop has the Grammies. Well-groomed canines have Crufts. And here in the world of literature, we have the Booker Prize. In approximately five hours time, Sir Peter Stothard will lead his army of...
Living As The Dice Man For 24hrs

The Huffington Post UK 08/26/2012

Let's ease into Dice Living fairly gently by picking which pick-me-up to start the day with. Will it be... A nice refreshing glass of water A stimulating strong coffee A soothing cup of tea A relaxing camomile concoction A...
Comment
Jimmy Savile's Latest Victim Is Art

The Huffington Post UK 10/26/2012

When I contacted the Bread And Butter gallery to ask if their 'Jimmy Savile Is Innocent' exhibition was some kind of prank, they confirmed it was real and sent over a press release that opened with an imaginary Savile talking...
The Greatness Of Roald Dahl

The Huffington Post UK 09/14/2012

Nothing feels quite so bittersweet as remembering what it felt like to read as a child, when you'd nestle in somewhere safe and let your imagination unfurl until you were sucked completely into a story in a way that doesn't...
Why Erotic Makeovers For The Classics Are 50 Shades Too Far

The Huffington Post UK 08/17/2012

Have you had a ride on the 50 Shades Of Grey bandwagon yet? Or is it a gravy train? It's hard to tell - the seats are all swings and the seatbelts are handcuffs. I'd ask the driver, but he's been told to keep zip. We've had a...
Samantha Brick Has Made Daily Mails Of Us All

The Huffington Post UK 04/04/2012

Samantha Brick, to use a parlance I'd never normally use in print - or, to be fair, in the pub, where I'd be far cruder - is 'a bit of alright'. But my opinion of her looks is beside the point. The reason Twitter has got its...
How I Became A Royalist

The Huffington Post UK 03/23/2012

I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened. Perhaps it was Harry buffooning his way around the Bahamas that sealed the deal, or Kate charming her away around her arts charities. Perhaps it was during the Royal Wedding last...
Forever St James' Park - Why Newcastle Fans Renamed Mike Ashley Years Ago

The Huffington Post UK 11/10/2011

In one sense it's fair enough - most Newcastle fans changed Mike Ashley's name years ago. True the commercial gains were slim, but referring to our portly owner by the initials 'FC' - something an appreciation of terrace...
How Much Do We Really Need To Know About Joanna Yeates' Death?

The Huffington Post UK 10/17/2011

Every day last week I read about the Joanna Yeates murder case in more and more detail. We now know much of the heart-breaking minutiae surrounding the fact that a 25-year-old woman was strangled to death in her flat a week...
Why A Degree Need Never Be Called 'Worthless'

The Huffington Post UK 08/18/2011

Of all the arguments made back when lifting the cap on tuition fees was still masquerading as a debate rather than a foregone conclusion, the one the irked me most was about young people 'wasting their time doing sub-standard...
Four Year Sentence For Facebook Rioters Shows We Are Losing Our Heads

The Huffington Post UK 08/17/2011

In the wake of the riots, it was wryly observed by more than one commentator that those of a normally liberal disposition were suddenly getting in touch with their authoritarian side. It is often the way. I'll never forget as...
David Starkey Has Failed Us As An Intellectual

The Huffington Post UK 08/14/2011

Beyond the obvious, there was something deeply troubling about David Starkey's appearance on Newsnight on Friday. Giving a master class in excruciating ignorance the aging historian, almost bent double with his portentous...
Not Everyone At The News Of The World Was Guilty

The Huffington Post UK 07/07/2011

Earlier this week, as Twitter let out its first collective gasp of horror over the News of the World revelations that brought about the end of the paper, I commented: Feel for everyone working at #NOTW who didn't hack a...