The UK Journal

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 […]

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has admitted that she underpaid stamp duty on the purchase of her £800,000 seafront flat in Hove, East Sussex, and has referred herself to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards for investigation. The news follows weeks of criticism over her property deals. Some say she saved nearly […]

God, I was not prepared for Freddie’s Disney+ documentary. It made me properly tear up when I watched it last week. You know how some telly just hits different? That was one of those times. Watching Freddie discussing how he didn’t leave his home for eight months after that Top Gear accident. The very same […]

Last month I was scrolling through Instagram when my sister Jenny rang me up, absolutely buzzing with gossip. “Did you know that Luisa Zissman’s married to some proper loaded Irish bloke?” she asked. I hadn’t given it much thought before, but Jenny’s always been spot-on with celebrity stuff. So I started digging around, and blimey, […]