Men everywhere have denied that the only reason they are suddenly interested in women’s tennis is the fact that Maria Sharapova has reached Saturday’s Wimbledon final and insisted that they’ve always been huge fans of the Russian fifth seed. 24-year-old Sharapova faces the Czech eighth seed Petra Kvitova in Saturday’s showpiece, which men all over [...]
Thousands of people all over the country were up in arms last night after the BBC’s continued coverage of Pippa Middleton was interrupted by footage of two men in sports gear hitting a fluorescent yellow ball over a net with some sticks. The country’s ability to see Pippa, who was wearing a lovely red dress, [...]
Education secretary Michael Gove has told teachers that they are only ‘wasting their own time’ in the midst of a 24-hour strike over pensions. Gove, who has repeatedly refused to budge in the face of a backlash from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, instead spent the morning sitting, [...]
People all over the country were last night questioning whether or not the 24-hour public sector strike planned for Thursday was, in fact, right, after Prime Minister David Cameron insisted it was ‘wrong’. Speaking at the annual conference of the Local Government Group in Birmingham, Mr Cameron said: “These strikes are wrong. It is the [...]
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China’s most powerful man has spent the entire weekend at a pub just outside Stratford-upon-Avon after a scheduled stop at a traditional English drinking hole turned into a two-day drinking binge. Premier Wen Jiabao and his entourage arrived in Stratford-upon-Avon on Friday and visited the Dog & Duck shortly after a trip to the birthplace [...]
Each week, The Oracle Speaks receives thousands of e-mails from readers looking for an answer to their deepest, darkest, stomach-wrenching problems. Rather than go to the expense and effort of hiring a real-life agony aunt, who actually knows what she’s talking about, we’ve decided to throw these problems open to everyday members of the public [...]
Criminals will not be offered the chance to halve their sentences with an early guilty plea – unless the Prime Minister changes his mind again. Speaking at a packed press conference at 10 Downing Street, David Cameron said that he firmly believed that sentence reform would send the “wrong message”, although he did caveat this [...]