Herself has recently been getting a lot of telephone messages for some midlands socialite named Mark. Neither of us know who he is, but the voicemail keeps coming. Spookily the phone doesn’t ring for him, ever, but still the messages appear. Thanks to the magic of the internet, using the audio player below, now you [...]

In the UK, when you text a fixed line phone, such as one in a home, from a mobile the text message is turned into a voice message read by a robot.
Until today (January the 7th 2007), in aid of the housing charity Shelter, Tom Baker has been providing the voice for this robot, and [...]

This can be “FND” on the wall of a local church in Leytonstone. At the bottom of the poster there is the cryptic suggestion that it is possible to chat with God, via text messaging and at no connection charge. Well, who knew.

For sale in walthamstow! I wouldn’t be seen dead in it.

The Campaign to Make Votes Count in the uk trundles on, and while some in the labour government still insist there is no need to change a system where around 30% of the vote means over 50% representation in parliament some within the party are starting to realise that the system that punished them in [...]