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The extraordinary moment a herd of buffalo fought back against a pack of lions... and a crocodile 10th August 2007 Daily Mail An amateur video shot on safari in South Africa has become a phenomenon on YouTube. Almost 10 million people have watched the footage - dubbed the Battle at...

Why James Bond does the best baddies by ANTHONY HOROWITZ (about to release his seventh Alex Rider novel) 10th August 2007 Daily Mail What are we to make of David Scaramanga, the 28-year-old owner of a Bath taxi company who claims that his grandfather, George Ambrose Scaramanga, was the...

Richard Littlejohn on why five potential Islamic terrorists should be left to rot in Guantanamo rather than be granted asylum in Britain when they aren't even British citizens, and why China's Terracotta Army, currently visiting Politically Correct Britain, is bound to be granted asylum, due to...

Op ... Howard wants to be a girl Builder loses nuts and bolts By JAMIE PYATT August 09, 2007 BUILDING boss Howard Shelley carried out the ultimate DIY conversion — by CASTRATING himself so he could become a woman. The 42-year-old dad of two decided on the drastic move after...

If anyone is looking for a penpal, then why not write to a British soldier stationed in Iraq? The address is given. Iraq soldiers look for penpals... maybe more By Caroline Davies 09/08/2007 The Telegraph For the soldier out in Iraq, the path to true love is littered with obstacles...

In early 21st Century, politically-correct Britain, only foreign murderers, rapists and terrorists - such as those non-British Guantanamo detainees that the British Government is trying to pressure America into releasing and then allowing them to live in Britain - should be granted asylum in...

'My grandad was basis for evil Bond villain Scaramanga' Scaramanga named after 007 author's school rival By LUKE SALKELD 8th August 2007 Daily Mail He was the ultimate Bond villain with a name to match. Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga was the suave, sophisticated assassin determined...

New Zealand has been gripped by alleged sightings of Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat whose fate remains unknown after he vanished in 1974.... New Zealand gripped by bizarre new 'sighting' of Lord Lucan 9th August 2007 Daily Mail New Zealand has been gripped by a bizarre claim that a...

Considering that they are being held in Britain, the 2012 London Olympics are surely going to be the most politically correct Games of all time. For satire, the Spectator's Rod Liddle writes this article as though he is a politically correct maniac.... It's the PC Olympics I don’t mean to...

Political correctness, "Green" councils, "diversity", health and safety.....a parody of life in today's Britain by Richard Littlejohn Roll up for the Much Culling in the Marsh summer show! 7th August 2007 Richard Littlejohn How long before the Government decides that the foot and mouth...

Police accuse Channel 4 of distorting film on radical Muslim preachers 8th August 2007 Daily Mail A police force has made a formal complaint to Ofcom about the editing of a Channel 4 programme, Undercover Mosque, after unsuccessfully trying to prosecute for stirring up racial hatred...

Here's how the front page of the Daily Mail may have looked in the 1600s as it reported on major invents in England that occurred in that century if it was done in a similar style to today.... Hold Ye Front Page! (Or how the Mail would have reported 17th Century events) 7th August 2007...

The Poles and Lithuanians need to learn that in this nation of animal lovers the killing of a wild swan results in six months in prison and a £5000 fine... Sorry, poached swan's off: Calls for clampdown on river bandits from eastern Europe By MATTHEW HICKLEY 7th August 2007 Daily Mail...

The term "Resurrection Men" was given to men in 18th and early 19th Century Britain who dug up cadavers from graves, the main purpose being to sell them to surgeons for large amounts of money. This gruesome practice was unique to Britain, being practiced in no other European country. Britain's...

In other countries, teenagers go to the cinema, go to the beach or go to the shopping mall for fun. But for today's feral youth of Britain the idea of fun is to lie under a railway line as a train approaches... Terrifying moment teenager lay under a railway line as train sped buy - just inches...

Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations BBC The spectre of poverty haunted many Victorian British cities Many Victorian Britons struggled to understand and explain poverty. Was this because of circumstances beyond the individual's control or the direct result of their indolence...

A new coded diary written by a late 17th Century Englishman has been recorded. The diary reveals some of the horrific realities of life in 17th Century England: the English Civil War (the diary, though, was written 26-40 years after it ended), prisoners held without trial, anti-Catholicism...

On the day in which George W Bush met, at Camp David, new British PM Gordon Brown for the first time, BBC political correspondent Nick Robinson was the victim of a childish insult from Bush after the two leaders, syanding side by side, had given their speeches and answered questions from the...

An Englishwoman was barred from applying for a job - in England - because she doesn't have brown or black skin....and also isn't Welsh, Irish or Scottish. The girls believes that despite the job being in England she is the victim of anti-English racism.... English girl barred from Government...

Old London Bridge was a sight to behold. Built in 1209 it was actually the first stone bridge in the world (Britain during the industrial revolution also built the world first iron bridge, in Shropshire, in the 18th Century) and was for a period known as one of the wonders of the world. This...