News Archive | August 2018

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August 31st
- Meet the Premier League youngsters reinventing English football
- The best things to watch on Netflix this weekend
- Kanye West still wants to run for president. At this point, what’s the worst that could happen?
- What Australian biker gangs, Kalahari tribesmen and Greek strongmen taught me about being a man in 2018
- 5 lovely smart shoes for £100 (or less) that look like they cost way more
- Is this a massive hint that Spider-Man will be showing up in 'Venom' after all?
- Why are gamers freaking out about a missing puddle in new ‘Spider-Man’ PS4 game?
- The last thing you’d ever want to happen in space, just happened on the International Space Station
- KFC will pay $11,000 to one absolute Chicken Head if they name their child after Colonel Sanders
August 30th
- Danny Wallace discovers that jury duty is more than jigsaws
- We finally have a release date for the sequel to 'A Quiet Place'
- Matt Groening has confirmed the fascinating true story behind Michael Jackson's 'Simpsons' cameo
- 5 hi-tech micro-tweaks that'll make your bike way better
- 20 productivity apps that you’ll actually use and stop wasting so much damn time
- We've got some very bad news for 'Top Gun' fans
- Watch Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in new trailer for ‘First Man’ space biopic
- Mark Hamill has praised this bullied boy for not fighting back because it’s not ‘the Jedi way’
- A giant inflatable blimp of Sadiq Khan wearing a yellow bikini is going to fly over London
- "There’s a misconception that I’ve come from the tortured streets": A sunny afternoon with Idris Elba
- Introducing 'Geek Island' - 'Love Island' for clever-clogs
- The diver called a ‘pedo’ by Elon Musk has hired a lawyer and is preparing to sue
- Good news, drunkards, Uber Eats is going 24 hours
- Wesley Snipes teases 'Blade 4' in a new interview
August 29th
- Premiere: check out 'BEE-STING', the brilliant new single from The Wombats
- The best new menswear you can buy this week – August 27
- This is how many hours it should take you to complete the new Spider-Man game
- Does this fan theory explain why Thanos didn’t just massacre The Avengers when he first got the chance?
- Trump now thinks Google is rigged against him, doesn’t realise it’s actually the entire planet
- How KSI and Logan Paul are pantomiming toxic masculinity to sell hoodies to children
- Tarantino has cast an actor you've never heard of to play Charles Manson in his next film
- Finally! The existential study of life and death you’ve been waiting for: Warner Bros. are making a Wile E. Coyote film
- Win tickets to the world premiere of Maniac
- Someone tried to make driverless cars less scary by giving them sad, lifeless eyes
- This former Doctor Who has joined the cast of ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’
August 28th
- This is the reason why your beard is ginger and your hair isn’t
- One of the greatest games ever made is being revived with a complete makeover
- The reason why Ben Affleck might be replaced as Batman
- 52 weeks of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: week 33
- What it feels like when your mental health means you can't leave the house for months
- Sylvester Stallone is 72-years-old and his insane 'Rambo V' workout is still more hardcore than your workout
- Sansa Stark is dishing out serious death stares in first trailer for 'Game of Thrones' season 8
- 'True Detective' is back-to-basics in doom laden new trailer - will the sins of season two be redeemed?
August 24th
- ‘Game of Thrones’ now has its own beer described as ‘thick and chewy’
- How are doomsday preppers reacting now it actually feels like the end of the world?
- Aretha Franklin's funeral is set to be an incredible star-studded affair
- John Cena has undergone an insane super-jacked, triple-stacked body transformation
- Killer robots, crop tops, YouTubers and a world ablaze: everything you should read today
- Russia’s latest terrifying weapon is basically the bad robot from 'Robocop'
- “There's too much pressure on your relationship”: What it's like to break up on YouTube
- Apocalypse Watch: Worrying new NASA images show a world on fire
- This is the genius way that Steve Jobs faked the iPhone at its first product launch
- Josh Groban's Train Delay Playlist
- What will actually happen if Trump gets impeached?
- A drone has spotted an Amazon tribe never before seen by outsiders
- Michael Owen has never drunk a cup of tea or coffee
- This zombie film cost less than a London house deposit to make and has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes
- NTS have drastically improved your weekend listening with a special show to celebrate the release of Idris Elba’s new film Yardie
August 23rd
- The cast for season two of ‘Fleabag’ has been announced
- If we can’t handle ASOS' 'male crop top' what chance do we have of beating toxic masculinity?
- This is the latest (somewhat unexpected) star to join Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
- Facebook is secretly giving you the side-eye and ranking how trustworthy you are
- Tough guys, motorways, Netflix and Dr Alex from Love Island: everything you should read today
- Apple is bringing out a new cheap Macbook Air (and it’s got a better screen)
- These explosive text messages will leave you even more confused about Elon Musk, Grimes and Azealia Banks
- The absolute no-nonsense top 10 greatest UK motorways
- Two more big names have joined the cast of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
- Why Tinky Winky, Davos and Mr Carson are TV's true tough guys
- Danny Wallace investigates the many uses of an alleyway
- Doctors say this is the first (pretty obvious) thing you should do when you've got a cough
- This is when 'The Big Bang Theory', one of TV’s most-watched shows, is going to end
August 22nd
- New figures show we are all earning less money (and working more hours) than we were 10 years ago
- A curious deep dive into the Instagram of Dr Alex off of 'Love Island' and his quest to reinvent banter
- Obama's reading list, GBBO predictions and Trump's downfall: everything you should read today - 22 August
- We spoke to a bouncer, marine, and prison officer to find out what it's like to be tough for a living
- Face to Face with Jay Ajayi: The British superstar beating America at their own game
- Two of Trump's closest allies are now guilty – is this how his presidency ends?
- 13 essential iPhone tricks to use when you’re travelling
- Why leaving my job in the city was the best decision I ever made
- We now have the first look at Chance The Rapper's wild pizza-werewolf movie 'Slice'
- Watch the trailer for excellent-looking Netflix thriller 'Hold The Dark'
August 21st
- Predicting who will win the Great British Bake Off 2018 based on the contestants’ social media
- The best new menswear you can buy this week – August 20
- According to Barack Obama these are the 5 books you need to read this summer
- Burgers, bad accents and The Rock: everything you should read today - 21 August
- 52 weeks of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: week 32
- The 11 all-time worst British accents in film
- These are the secrets of perfect pizza (according to a top pizza chef)
- Madonna is being slammed for making an Aretha Franklin tribute at the VMAs all about herself
- Here are the 20 best fish and chip shops in the UK - how many have you tried?
- Cricket fans brought to tears by beautiful letter from a heartbroken son
- Get 20% off these amazing burgers for Mr Hyde's National Burger Day 2018
- Chris Pine goes full 'Braveheart' in first trailer for Netflix's big-budget historical epic 'Outlaw King'
- J.K. Rowling ‘confirmed’ a super dark ‘Harry Potter’ theory about Dumbledore
August 20th
- Here’s how to hide yourself by going incognito on Instagram
- 4 top looks for Notting Hill Carnival to wear with Converse
- This guy just came up with the best description of Bitcoin yet
- Disgraced star Kevin Spacey’s new film made less than $300 on its opening weekend
- It’s official: 'Sharknado' is now the most ambitious crossover event in history featuring dinosaurs, dragon sharks, robot sharks, Nazis and Noah's Ark
- Everything you should read today - 20 August
- How to use Google’s anxiety-fighting Breathing Exercises (for when you're struggling)
- WhatsApp will delete your chats, photos and videos if you don’t back it up soon – here’s how
- Netflix are testing adverts between stuff you watch – apparently it’s a good thing
- Sacha Baron Cohen convinced a food critic that he was eating human meat (and he loved it)
- This is, officially, the funniest joke from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year
- Don't worry, you don't need to be scared about that terrifying robot video
August 17th
- 106 years ago a newspaper made an eerily accurate global warming prediction but everyone ignored it
- Every Spider-Man spin-off in development after Venom
- Here are all the routes set to be affected by the controversial London bus cuts
- The 'Avengers' cast didn’t know their character died until they filmed the actual scenes
- What it feels like to ‘wake up’ during surgery (by someone it happened to)
- 6 times Aretha Franklin covered a song and blew the originals out of the water
- Apple’s next big innovation? Bringing passports into the 21st Century
- Why having a few drinks on holiday could accidentally invalidate your travel insurance
August 16th
- This is why it's OK to cry over books
- This 'Game of Thrones' star just told us fans exactly what we want to hear about Season 8
- According to a study your mum is wrong, tattoos don’t stop you from getting jobs
- Let's all appreciate this unbelievable Aretha Franklin live performance from 2015
- Get free tickets to see 'American Animals'
- Absolutely everybody missed this cool Batman Easter egg in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
- The owners of Corona beer are about to become the biggest weed dealers in the world
- Here's everything we know so far about 'John Wick 3'
- Stormzy is paying for black students to go to Cambridge University and we couldn’t love him any more
- So Disney definitely won't be rehiring 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director James Gunn, then
- Fox News went after Denmark and they responded brilliantly
- Danny Wallace on why summer jobs aren't just for children
August 15th
- 52 weeks of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: week 31
- Ashton Sanders on why he will be weird forever
- These big lager brands have been excellently re-imagined as craft beers
- Michael Caine has finally explained the ending of 'Inception' – so now you know
- Win a Thames Barrier RIB voyage for you and a friend
- 5 ways to trick your brain into having fun at work (that won’t get you fired)
- 5 product tips for rescuing your body from heatwave damage
- Google is tracking your movements even when ‘Location History’ is off – here’s how to stop it
- Why Bitcoin will continue to fall and fall and fall (according to the ex-PayPal CEO)
- Metallica's Lars Ulrich talks modern rockstars and Hygge: "It's so outdated to act like a f*ckin' dickhead"
- Here’s when Ozark is back, so you can cancel all your plans
- Spoiler King Tom Holland is back spoiling Spider-Man again
- Scientists have warned that the next four years are going to be 'abnormally hot'
- Wetherspoons is holding a gin festival, and it won't break your wallet
- You need to stop drinking coffee on airplanes right now (and not just because it tastes terrible)
August 14th
- How to stop your housemates ruining your ‘suggested viewing’ on Netflix
- A mathematician has done a fascinating, deep-dive analysis of that ‘Pivot!’ couch scene in ‘Friends’
- Everything we know about the new iPhones set to be released this year
- YouTube pulled this trailer for 'The Conjuring' prequel after terrified viewers complained it was too scary
- Donald Trump doesn’t understand time zones (and thinks there’s a country called 'Nipple')
- The 5 English youngsters to watch out for in the Premier League this season
- James Richardson on the new Premier League players who just seem like nice blokes
- 6 pre-Netflix shows that you need to revisit in 2018
- Newly-leaked 'Game of Thrones' script seems to confirm that these two characters don't die
- Retro fans rejoice: the Nokia 8110 'Bananaphone' is back
- 8 ways to de-stress when you leave the office (according to successful CEOs)
- Could this bizarre strike be the strangest goal ever scored?
August 13th
- The best new menswear you can buy this week – August 13
- George R. R. Martin has revealed why he kills off so many of our fave 'Game of Thrones' characters
- You can now get penis (and vagina) emoji and they’re terrifying
- Free Spotify users may soon have an unlimited advert-skipping feature
- Why straight dude Jack Whitehall’s latest gay Disney role is causing such an uproar
- Wayne Rooney just pulled off one of the greatest assists of his career
- Idris Elba has distanced himself from those Bond rumours
- It looks like we'll be getting another 'Simpsons' movie
- 5 of the best baseball jerseys to have in your wardrobe
- This fired assistant to the president says she’s heard a tape of Donald Trump using the N-word
- Simon from ‘The Inbetweeners’ thinks this is why the US remake was so horribly unfunny
August 10th
- YouTube has revealed the best smartphones for streaming videos on (and none of them are iPhones)
- Someone has worked out a genius way to solve your banana problem
- Some genius has created a Rick and Morty green screen tattoo that deserves your attention right now
- Why it’s time to address our unhealthy relationship with comedy
- Michael Moore has released the first trailer for his Trump doc 'Fahrenheit 11/9' - and it doesn’t hold back
- Ben Affleck is going to produce 'The Batman' (but might not be in it)
- Punny Fantasy Football team names for every Premier League club
- It looks like Idris Elba might be the next Bond after all
- Villarreal have unveiled their new signing in the most Spinal Tap way you can imagine
- Trump is getting people to vote for the new Space Force logo and how is this not a joke
August 9th
- Evil troublemakers have gone too far with this ‘fake plug socket’ trick
- "You hope you’re gonna be a ‘likely sex symbol’. But we’ll accept ‘unlikely’": Jemaine Clement talks 'Flight of the Conchords'
- 10 nailed-on predictions for the 2018/19 Premier League season
- Why do we find it so compelling to watch great men fail?
- Danny Wallace presents to you: a life-changing fact
- Why our lazy obsession with 'Man Food' has became so hard to swallow
- No, your iPhone isn’t listening to all your secrets, despite what your dad thinks
- Marvel might actually use James Gunn's 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.3' now
- How one man became the unlikely face of British blokes
- Tom Hardy looks like a great big cigar-chompin’ ghost in new Al Capone biopic
- Someone weighed meal deal sandwiches to find out the best and worst value options
- There's a new Oscars category, and it doesn't make any sense - in fact, it's an insult
- Here's the first trailer for Guy Pearce’s new ‘shape-shifting’ Netflix show 'The Innocents'
August 8th
- A man is writing 'Stop Brexit' across Europe with his van and a GPS tracker
- Here's how to access Facebook's new 'Asteroids Attack' augmented reality game
- Want to secure that new job? Apply at this exact time of the week
- House of Fraser – The Style Collective August Offer Terms & Conditions
- McDonald's are opening their first ever 'luxury' restaurant in London
- Here’s some incredibly wild speculation about the new 'American Horror Story' teaser trailer
- Elon Musk may have just got himself into big trouble yet again on Twitter
- Judd Apatow reveals how he nearly stopped Bryan Cranston playing Walter White in 'Breaking Bad'
August 7th
- The best new menswear you can buy this week – August 6
- David Tennant has told Donald Trump exactly what Scotland really thinks of him
- 17 songs that are miles better at 1.25x speed in YouTube
- The story of the Mac command key symbol is way more fascinating that you'd expect
- This hero hairdresser is working for free so that local children can "feel special" on their first day at school
- Johnny Depp’s upcoming Notorious B.I.G film has been cancelled a month before release
- Danny Rose says there’s been ‘unbelievable’ support after opening up about depression
- Here's the mind-bending first trailer for 'Maniac', another new binge-worthy Netflix series to eat up all your time
- The new season of ‘Mindhunter’ will feature The Charles Manson Murders
- Wait, so is Starbucks accepting Bitcoin now or not?
August 6th
- Exclusive: Dave Bautista tells ShortList he'll quit 'Guardians of the Galaxy' if James Gunn's script isn’t used
- Summer Sadness: How hot weather affects mental health
- Travis Scott has responded to accusations of ‘transphobia’ on his new album
- Meanwhile, in headlines that sound like a joke: Steven Seagal is appointed as Russia’s Special Envoy to the US
- We may have already seen the funniest own goal of the new football season
- "What hurt most was I'd been conned": The risky reality of the smartphone trading apps promising to make you rich
- Football meets absurdist theatre in Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa's bizarre pre-match interview
- Watch the first trailer for 'Moonlight' director Barry Jenkins' new film
- Sir Ian McKellen gives fans the ultimate apology after missing performance with injury
- West Brom have just unveiled the worst mascot of all time
August 5th
- "This is not what you expect to see on the way back from the shops": Snake eats pigeon on East London high street
August 3rd
- This is exactly how excessive stress levels affect your body and mind
- Lady Gaga shared some important words following the tragic passing of Rick ‘Zombie Boy’ Genest
- Your all-time favourite mobile game is back with an augmented reality twist
- Check out the trailer for Michael Caine's Hatton Garden robbery flick 'King of Thieves'
- 17 nailed-on predictions for the 2018/19 Football League season
- How worried should we be about the heatwave?
- Quit your job immediately - Nutella are hiring taste-testers
- TV bosses at Fox just gave an important update on how long ‘The Simpsons’ is going to last
- Illegal music piracy has halved in the last five years - well done everyone
- This is how much Apple is now worth (and how they made such an eye-watering amount of money)
August 2nd
- How Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can teach us all to be a little bit more generous
- Parents are apparently paying ‘tutors’ to teach their kids to get better at 'Fortnite'
- 5 mouthwatering turbo soda floats to keep the summer party going
- Why are our memories getting worse?
- Is Elon Musk's 'Atari gambit' just a sad bid for the internet's approval?
- Why men need to stop being embarrassed for enjoying 'girly' films
- Danny Wallace on the perils of being over-friendly to workmen
- This is why (and how) queer hook-up app Grindr is changing in a big way
- An adaptation of 'Animal Farm' is coming to Netflix from mo-cap master Andy Serkis
- "I have an innate sense of madness and power-hunger": Mark Gatiss on 'League of Gentlemen' and 'Sherlock'
- This is the correct way to make a cup of tea
- Robyn is back with a brand new single and the world is a better place
August 1st
- You can now buy this 'Game of Thrones' castle for the absolute bargain price of £500k
- "I don't wanna be a dickhead": Paul Rudd on what it's really like to be Hollywood royalty
- The Swedish crown jewels have been stolen in a heist straight out of Hollywood
- This brilliant Instagram account is calling out your social media unoriginality
- Toto have returned the favour after 'Africa' and covered this Weezer classic
- This smartphone brand has overtaken Apple to become the second most-popular handset in the world
- The team behind ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ explain how they picked who would survive
- French tennis star loses match following epic on-court meltdown
- It looks like Marc Maron is the latest addition to the Joaquin Phoenix 'Joker' origin movie