You can't ignore them. The faces of Wills and Kate stare down at you from countless of touristy stalls around central London. But the royal souvenirs have crept out of the tourist zone. There is more than just chintzy china out there.Whether you like the British Royal family or not they will be in your face over the coming weeks. Thankfully some of the swag will help you out if you feel like it's all a bit too nauseating. Graphic designer
BITCH:NEWS
18 Apr 2011 15:00 GMT
It's all very well when celebrities want to 'make a difference', but first they need to actually tell us what their cause is.Are YOU a Real Man? Ashton Kutcher wants to know. This week he and wife Demi Moore have been promoting the launch of their new venture - the Demi & Ashton Foundation - in a bid to raise awareness about child sex trafficking.
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15 Apr 2011 11:06 GMT
The Royal Wedding is almost upon us and Hannah Mudge has definitely had enough of it all.As of today, there are just 16 days to go until the Royal Wedding. 16 days until we get to find out the answers to all the important questions we've been obsessing over for the past few months. What will the dress look like? How will Kate's hair be styled? Will she promise to 'obey' Wills and will Princ...
BITCH:NEWS
13 Apr 2011 12:30 GMT
While many of us are no doubt drowning in a sea of emails, there's one newsletter that I will be more than psyched to receive every morning, and that's Shortlist Media's new offering, Emerald Street. From the editors and journalists at Stylist magazine, Emerald Street is a new, daily email offering for what they call "intelligent, career-focused women" - but from what I've seen so far, Emerald St...
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12 Apr 2011 10:05 GMT
I truly believe in free speech. I honestly believe that everything in existence has a voice, and if you are sentient, you have the right to express your own existence with that voice. But I also truly believe that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. So, I don’t even care if it makes me a little bit of a hypocrite that my heart openly rejoiced when I heard that
BITCH:NEWS
11 Apr 2011 14:00 GMT
The White House has launched a new initiative to tackle campus sexual violence - and it can't come soon enough."No means no even if you said yes at first and you changed your mind."So said Vice President Joe Biden this week as he outlined plans to crack down on sexual assault and rape in schools and on university campuses. Speaking ...
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06 Apr 2011 17:00 GMT
Barack Obama officially announced that he's filing for re-election in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. Taking to the web, a force that undoubtedly helped his win in 2008, Obama issued the announcement via Twitter, YouTube, and to his supporters via email.So he's seeking the Democratic party nomination again. He'll probably get it: no President has been denied the party nomination for a second term since Franklin Pierce. In 1857.
BITCH:NEWS
05 Apr 2011 15:53 GMT
Perez Hilton is one of the better known successes in the blogging world, although I’ll admit I’ve never really got on board. It’s not that I’m uninterested – the only questions I ever get right in a pub quiz are the ones about celebs – but the flashing pink website is vile and quite frankly offends my delicate aesthetic sensibility. Plus there was once an incident where I clicked on a Perez link to be greeted with a giant (fake) picture of Kristen Davis and a penis. I was at work. It was emba...
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31 Mar 2011 14:00 GMT
In New Orleans, at the right time of the year, a woman can walk down the street completely trashed, with a giant plastic cup full of rum and coke sloshing everywhere, and flash her breasts to a crowd of people, within yards of a cop, and get nothing in return but catcalls and cheap plastic beads. She can also, at any time of the year, solicit oral sex for money and get to spend the next 15 years as a registered sex offender.
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29 Mar 2011 16:00 GMT
This is the concept behind TED The non-profit “believe[s] passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, and ultimately, the world,” and has, since 2007, posted talks from its conferences the internet, “building...a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engawith ideas and each other.” It’s a beautiful concept—anyone with access to the in can h...
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28 Mar 2011 11:00 GMT