Society

80s free school launched

A RETRO fanatic has set up a free school providing a traditional 1980s education.

If you need me I'll be in the pub, Charles tells Queen

PRINCE Charles has instructed his mother that he intends to wait out his days as heir to the throne in the pub.

Cynics released from Olympic dungeons

BRITAIN'S 500,000 cynics have been released from temporary incarceration below the Olympic stadium.

Benefits allocated using game show-style challenges

BENEFIT assessments have been replaced by TV game show-inspired challenges including 'Dole or No Dole'.

Britain hails return of normal telly

AFTER weeks of Olympics, Britons are celebrating the end of disruption to the television schedules.

Lunchtime pints key to economic growth

DRINKING at least three pints of beer at lunchtime could put Britain's economy back on track, it has been claimed.

Britain to honour its heroin addicts

THE contribution of drug addicts to British society is to be honoured at the first National Junkie Day.

McDonalds relaunched as moody teen hangout

FAST food giant McDonalds is re-branding its restaurants as foodless leisure spaces for bored, hostile teenagers.

Miliband's Oxbridge club binged on Star Wars

LABOUR leader Ed Milliband was part of an Oxbridge social club that would watch Star Wars up to 48 times in a row, it has emerged.

Incredible Melanie's article challenges stereotypes of horrible people

INSPIRING Melanie Phillips has overcome potentially debilitating horribleness to pen an article about the Paralympics.