en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:44:06 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-07-02T06:12:19Z Elvis Presley, Keith Moon, now Michael Jackson. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, John Lennon, of course. That guy in the Pretenders, that other guy in the Pretenders, one of the blokes from Wings . . . erm, John Entwistle . . . oh yes, then Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. Anyway, you get the idea. Rock stars die young. Daniel Finkelstein Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-30T10:38:40Z When the toothy teen band the Osmonds reached No 1 with their first hit, One Bad Apple, Joe Jackson was furious. The father of the Jackson boys believed that Michael and his brothers should have had that song. Jackson attacked Berry Gordy, the Motown founder, in bitter terms. “He handed those white boys a song we should have recorded,” he wildly alleged. “And Mormons too!” Daniel Finkelstein Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:01:47 GMT 2009-06-25T06:44:14Z Did you know that being shy is correlated with having blue eyes? Neither did I. I found it out this week from Chris Dillow’s Stumbling and Mumbling blog. That isn’t so surprising, since this is one of the very best blogs around if you are interested in quirky research and new ideas. More surprising is that neither shyness nor blue eyes was really Dillow’s subject. He was debating whether putting up alcohol prices made an impact on binge drinking. Daniel Finkelstein Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:26 GMT 2009-06-23T10:32:40Z I am not making this up. There is a government recipe for chicken drumsticks. It is personally endorsed by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:01:42 GMT 2009-06-19T02:37:03Z In dictatorship school, you are taught a lesson in the first session of Oppression 101. It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the vote.