Society

RIDING a bicycle means you can ignore rules that apply to other road-users, like cars, motorbikes, buses or pedestrians. Cyclist Tom Logan explains.

I SEE public sector workers are getting huge pay rises again, but do we really need these skiving Bolsheviks in our lives? I didn’t use their services for a full hour today, and I’m just fine.

THE 1990s were rife with dumb rumours and myths, often promulgated by the new-fangled Worldwide Web. Here are some you’re not proud to admit you did sort-of believe.

AN otherwise sane man has decided that every breaking news story is just a distraction from another story.

THE police routinely talk up their drug busts and the media never question the boys in blue. But do you suspect they may over-dramatising events? Here’s the reality.

THE mysterious Scottish crown jewels presented to King Charles yesterday are in fact a tartan hat with a bottle of super-strength tonic wine and some biscuits inside.

IF you do not want to learn about the non-ending of your mum’s rambling anecdote, look away now.

A COUPLE kissing outside a Sainsbury’s Local are really putting the work in, passers-by have agreed.

ENGLAND loves to include all the nations of the UK in its narrative of patriotic success, but dare piss off the Home Counties and you’ll be instantly disowned.

IS a pregnant friend insisting on showing you their ultrasound scan? Here’s what you should definitely avoid saying.