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Derren Brown fails to predict PC rumpus

Twenty-seven intellectually underprivileged television viewers have complained to Ofcom because, on Channel 4 last Friday, Derren Brown joked that the Lottery bonus ball was "for women and gays"....

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Boyzone's Stephen Gately had a husband, not a 'husband'

I notice that, in stories about the death of the Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, at least two newspapers, the Daily Mail and The Sun, are referring to Andy Cowles as his "husband" in quote marks. A week...

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BBC Trust says you can make fun of the Queen – but not Lindsay Lohan

Earlier this month, the BBC announced that its comedy programmes would no longer contain jokes that were "humiliating" or "derogatory". You may have read Simon Heffer's column on the subject. Today we...

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Steve Jobs at Apple: a relentless rise in graphs and charts

The abundance of iPhones, iPads and iPods today makes it easy to forget that Apple wasn't always so popular. If you owned a Macintosh before 1998, you were either a creative-type with expensive...

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The mad fuss over Reginald D Hunter's stand-up routine shows how divorced...

Reginald D Hunter, the black American comedian, is in very hot water for his stand-up routine at the annual shindig of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA). He peppered his performance with...

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