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Is 4K worth it? Could it actually be the worst thing to happen to TV?
Like the evolution of man, or Simon Cowell’s face, TVs have changed beyond all recognition in a relatively short space of time. When I was growing up, our family TV was the size of a small car. But are today's 4K TVs all they're cracked up to be?
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Standby for panic buying
Over recent days, images of empty supermarket shelves have once again begun to appear on social media and, in so doing, have set in motion an unstoppable phenomenon that will be sweeping the country before the weekend. Panic buying.
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Why Pancake Day is uniquely British
This evening, families, couples, singletons and people who only ever get their frying pans out once a year, will gather in their kitchens to throw scalding hot pancakes in the air. For today is Pancake Day, a British celebration like no other.
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Wake up to the dangers of a faulty carbon monoxide monitor
At 5am this morning, our faulty carbon monoxide monitor went off. Emitting an intensely high pitch, pulsing alarm, the monitor next to our boiler woke us all and sent us immediately into a state of puzzlement. Not, you'll note, a state of panic and frenzied activity, but of stupified bewilderment.
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Why censoring Roald Dahl is a dangerous step
Augustus Gloop is fat. The Witches are terrifying old hags and the Oompa Loompas are small men. Born of the imagination of Roald Dahl, they are - together with Dahl's countless other masterfully crafted heroes and villains - the legendary characters that have fascinated, entertained and terrified generations of children, myself included.
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Thank a volunteer this Random Acts of Kindness Day
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Half term headaches
February half term is never easy, the weather’s usually rubbish and there’s nothing much to do. However, when you also have a 12-year-old who wants to do nothing other than game, and a 10-year-old whose idea of helping around the house is to get dressed, you have a surefire recipe for familial disaster.
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The curse of car insurance renewal day
There are few things in life as depressingly pointless and irritating as car insurance renewal day, with the possible exception of Piers Morgan. Why are we forced to waste endless time going through the same ridiculous cat and mouse price-chasing game with insurance companies?
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Balloons, aliens and sausage rolls
In an age of high-tech international cyber crime, there's something refreshingly old school about a superpower using balloons to allegedly spy on its enemies. Over the last week or so it seems that the US has scrambled F-16s at the site of any kind of inflatable flying objects in its airspace. The result is that #aliens and #UFOs are currently trending on social media as the world hypothesises over the international, or intergalactic origins of the obliterated objects.
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The Brits 2023 – What happened to music?
From the moment Sam Smith turned up to yesterday’s Brits looking like a badly burned spatchcock chicken, there was little chance I was going to be able to relate to much of the evening’s proceedings. The Brits is a regular fixture on the annual music awards calendar, a celebration of the incredible creative talent that has made the UK the home of the world’s most prestigious artists and entertainers. It remains so today, of course, but for those of us born before the invention of the internet – and for whom streaming once required a net and wellies – watching The Brits today is a little like watching one’s own…
