The UK Journal

I gave my brother-in-law homemade whisky in an old pasta jar last Christmas. His face was a picture. The whisky tasted great, but the jar made it look dodgy. Never doing that again. Making spirits at home is getting really popular now. Shop prices keep going up, and there’s something nice about making your own. […]

Renovating your Pinner home produces far more waste than most people expect. Many assume it will take around twenty bin bags. Instead, it ends up being sixty.  If the skip size isn’t quite right, you’re either paying for space you don’t need or you’re left needing another one halfway through a project, which can be costly […]

You are likely spending thousands of dollars every month just to get people’s attention. You pay for ads, you pay for SEO, you pay for content creation. You work incredibly hard to get a new customer through the front door. But if your customer experience is flawed, you are essentially paying those same people to […]

You remember Deborah from Dragons’ Den, don’t you? The person who tells entrepreneurs their ideas are rubbish. She’s worth about £40 million. So how did Deborah Meaden make her money? Not from telly, that’s for sure. The Early Stuff That Failed At 19, Deborah went to live in Italy and began selling glass and ceramics to top-end stores, […]

My nan had Premium Bonds for years, but she never checked them. When she finally did, she won £150 that had been there for three years. Could’ve had a nice weekend away with that. You might be the same. Right now, over 2.6 million unclaimed Premium Bonds prizes worth more than £106 million are just […]

In this era of busy times of online content, YouTube Shorts have been a strong form of content creators reaching audiences in bite-sized but impactful videos. It can be time-consuming to create good Shorts on a consistent basis, however. That’s where tools empowered by AI come in, with creators easily creating content and coming up […]

I switched on TalkTV on Wednesday morning, expecting to hear Mike Graham on his usual Morning Glory show. Instead, there’s Jeremy Kyle sat in his chair. Thought I’d got the wrong channel for a second. Then I checked Mike Graham’s Twitter and saw the absolute carnage. Turns out Mike Graham posted something properly racist on […]

Who is Russell Martin? The bloke Rangers have just binned now after five months of utter carnage. Southampton did the same thing in December 2024. So yeah, not exactly a glowing profile right now. But hold on, there’s slightly more to him than having been given the boot twice and dating Lucy Pinder. Let’s have […]

My sister called me last night in quite a state about something she’d spotted on Instagram. “That Nick Knowles’ wife has been rushed back to hospital!” I had to Google it since I’d been oblivious to the entire saga. And, well, it turns out Katie Dadzie underwent emergency surgery over the weekend after six surgeons […]

Okay, so you’re at your kids’ sports day. There you are in your folding chair with a packet of crisps and half an eye on the hundred metres as you check your phone. And then somebody walks past you, and you do a double-take. That bloke over there… is that who I think it is? […]

Right, so there’s this case doing the rounds that’s got everyone talking. A pregnant woman gets the boot from her job via text message. Nothing particularly shocking there, sadly. Happens all the time. But here’s the kicker: her boss chucked in a jazz hands emoji whilst doing it. I’m not making this up. Paula Miluska […]

Right, so I was chatting with my mate Tom the other day at JD Sports, and he goes, “Nike’s not what it used to be, is it?” I’m looking around and I think he’s mental, as the place is still full of Air Max and Jordan stock. But then he shows me the figures on […]