More Stories

• 

  News

  The Guardian

  Unforgotten series four, episode one recap – one more for the road?

  Unforgotten series four, episode one recap – one more for the road?. Cassie is back in the game with Sunny to tackle another historical crime – but this time it’s the police who are under the spotlight

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Guardian

  I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review – chapter and verse

  I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review – chapter and verse. This riveting memoir of the Salford dandy’s ascent to national treasuredom charms with tales of heroin and Sugar Puffs

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Guardian

  I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review - wry and dry

  I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review - wry and dryThe ‘bargain-basement Baudelaire’ looks back at his life with an unflinching gaze, plus plenty of gags and mad anecdotes

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Independent

  Relax, the BBC has a long history of right-wing comedy. I should know, I’ve been on the receiving end of it

  Tim Davie, the box-fresh director of the BBC, wants an overhaul of comedy shows which are deemed to have too much left wing bias. Good news because, dammit, pro-government comedy has been stifled for too long. Where are all the jokes about how annoying it is tripping up over homeless people when you’re on your way to Soho House?And my goodness I cannot wait for a comedy show which really tells it like it is about refugees paddling over and living in Windsor Castle with the Queen, forcing her and

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Sport

  The Guardian

  Willian, Arsenal and a brand new earworm. Ah yes, money

  Willian, Arsenal and a brand new earworm. Ah yes, money. Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Conversation

  Racist jokes return – but 'freedom of speech' punchline falls flat

  Rowan Atkinson was part of a new wave of comedians who pushed racist comedy to the margins. So why is he defending Boris Johnson now?

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  FourFourTwo

  10 football jokes that spectacularly backfired

  The official Twitter FA Cup account took flak from all angles after their Harry Kane gaffe but theres plentymore where that came from, asJon OBrien attests

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  The Independent

  The conviction of Count Dankula sets a dangerous precedent for freedom of speech

  As a child though, seeing a room full of people laughing heartily at Manning’s racist jokes upset me. The reaction to the likes of Manning came at a crucial point in my life – puberty – in the form of Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Julian Clary and Jo Brand. There were an abundance of people who hated this “alternative” comedy as much as I hated Manning but that’s the point – comedy is subjective.

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  The Independent

  This Charmless Man: How Morrissey's big mouth struck again... and again

  The traditional rites were replayed across London venues last week, as devoted fans rushed to touch the one star who still casts a spell like Ziggy Stardust’s rock’n’roll suicide, or the primal teenage princes of an old Nik Cohn profile. More recent Morrissey rituals have gone with it as he’s made his way across the UK, loathing Nicola Sturgeon and loving Brexit. The Stephen Morrissey who in his youth shared a TV studio with Bernard Manning in visceral, mutual horror now calls Nigel Farage a “

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Politics

  HuffPost UK

  Libyan Parliament Condemns Boris Johnson Over 'Dead Bodies' Comment

  MPs demand an apology.

  Thanks for your feedback!