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Ghost - 'Umbra" (2026) The brand new single from the rockers from Linköping, Sweden. The band, fronted by 44-year-old Tobias Forge, has described their music as a mix between pop music and death metal. Their music is described as Satanic in nature, but the band has stated that it is very much...

Mushroomhead - "Fall In Line" (2024) The Cleveland, Ohio, band had a hit with this in their native US...

RAF becomes nuclear again: Why the RAF is not only Europe's most powerful and advanced airforce but also why it's almost untouchable The RAF isn't only responding to threats it's deleting them before they become threats - it's almost unbeatable The RAF regains its ability to carry and drop...

Bullying Britain? The British don't get bullied. Try to bully the British and they'll fuck you over.

United States emphasises her friendship with Great Britain 250 years after independence The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson has delivered a speech to the British Parliament in which he emphasised America's friendship with Great Britain. Johnson was invited to do the...

Blur - "Boys and Girls" (1994) The London Britpoppers and big rivals to Oasis in the Nineties achieved a No5 UK hit - their first UK Top5 hit - with this. It was one of several hits from their 1994 UK No1 album 'Parklife". The song came about after Blur lead singer Damon Albarn went on...

Roxy Music - "Love is the Drug" (1975) The Newcastle band, fronted by Bryan Ferry, now aged 80, got a No2 British hit with in the year Australia got full-time colour television; Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party; Microsoft was founded; the tiny country of Sikkim joined...

American football would be quite a good game if it wasn't for all the stoppages every 15-30 seconds. It's a close relation to rugby but rugby is almost continuous. All the stoppages in American football just make it a big turn off for many people. It just knocks you to sleep, seeing guys stood...

2026 Six Nations England 48-7 Wales Twickenham, London Attendance: 81,953 The Welsh rugby players never knew what hit them after in-form England annihilated them in front of a partisan 82,000 crowd at Twickenham. England's rugby team are playing well at the moment and that's never a good...

Rampant England make highest-ever score in 20 overs cricket Second T20 England 304-2 South Africa 158 England win by 146 runs and level the Series 1-1 Old Trafford, Manchester England have become the first team in the T20 version of cricket to score over 300 runs by demolishing the...

The Cardigans - ""Erase/Rewind" (1998) The Swedish band had a No 7 UK hit with this in the year France beat Brazil 3-0 to win the World Cup for the first time, even though Brazilian superstar Ronaldo suffered a fit just before the match but was, rather mysteriously, ordered to play. The...

Russia shouldn't f*ck with Britain Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales bristling with F-35s. Russia has nothing to match this power and advanced technology Why Britain may once again be considered to be Europe's most important and capable military power...

Britain - Ukraine's closest ally - shows off military might to Russian fleet This comes after Britain warned Russia that she will seize any Russian shadow fleet tankers in British waters Crack Special Forces commandos put on a spectacular show of force by rappelling out of a helicopter into...

Judge: "You will die in prison" Steve Wright, 67, the "Suffolk Strangler", was sent to prison in 2008 for the murder of five women. Reminiscent of Jack the Ripper, Wright strangled to death five prostituites in the city of Ipswich, Suffolk, in 2006. For those murders he was sentences to...

I think Waltzing Matilda is a better song. As for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, most or all the members are gay. Lead singer Holly Johnson was diagnosed with HIV in 1991 and didn't expect to live much longer. In that year he gave up his music career to become a painter when he thought he was...

Curling is a Scottish sport. All the stones used in it are made of granite from the tiny Scottish island of Ailsa Craig.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have met the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Heir to the Throne and his beautiful wife - the future King and Queen - welcomed the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullaly, the first woman to assume the role, at the Archbishop of Canterbury's official...

Catherine, Princess of Wales, 43 - the wife of the Heir to the Throne Prince William, Prince of Wales - has visited a family-run company manufacturing jeans in Cardigan, Wales. As the people bowed and curtsied in respect to their future Queen she was also given a warm welcome by the company's...

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" (1984) The Liverpool band achieved a No1 hit in several countries, including their native Britain, in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; "Advance Australia Fair" is proclaimed to be Australia's national anthem; Liverpool win the European...

Ultravox - "Vienna" (1981) The English/Scottish band had a No2 UK hit with this in the year Prince Charles married Princess Diana; Greece joined the EU; Nazi Karl Doenitz died; the UK's Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest; and Marcus Sarjeant fails in his attempted assassination of...