THE BIG RETORT

Council Tax is a property-based charge with one bill for each household set by the various councils to help pay for local services such as r...

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." An eloquent defence of tolerance, or a cosy ...

Military ‘rebels’ who seized a luxury hotel in the Philippines capital have agreed to surrender, for the safety of the hostages. "We...

THERE IS A VERY OLD SAYING THAT 'HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF TIME AND TIME AGAIN'. RECENTLY TWO COMPUTER DISCS CONTAINING THE PERSONAL IN...

Could Mankind be the only technologically advanced society in the Cosmos? D. Bruce Merrifield, writing in Integrated Patterns of Civilizati...

Is service-provider London Councils really running a range of services designed to make life better for 'all'? In a previous article...

THE NEXT TIME YOU TAKE THE TUBE... MIND THE MAP . The London underground 'map' was created by graphic designer Henry C Beck (pictur...

THE CURIOUS CASE OF DR DAVID KELLY AND WHY HE WROTE THAT WILL... Researchers never seem to mention it but the dead scientist's will, pr...

IN A PREVIOUS ARTICLE THEBIGRETORT REVEALED THAT A 'NEW' LAW HAS BEEN INTRODUCED AGAINST SELFISH PARKING - BUT DO LONDON COUNCILS KN...

TheBigRetort has always found calls for the resignation of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to be unwarranted. If heads should ro...

TheBigRetort exposé reveals how the former movie star and MP for Hampstead and Highgate has displayed her boobs in the past... both of them...

In the world in which we live there is an argument that bullying can be a useful tool. Kelvin Mackenzie, the former newspaper editor and blo...

The Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws over the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menez...

PRIOR to and during her tempestuous relationship Heather Mills-McCartney (seen in the photo left with Sir Paul) often danced with the devil ...

Set dressers on the new Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie returning after a weekend off received a bit of a shock... the Nazis had disappeared from...

TheBigRetort strange but true series continues with a chilling tale of child abduction. It also reads as a bizarre prequel to the mysteriou...

A NEW LAW WHICH HAS LAIN UNDISCOVERED FOR YEARS CAN NOW BE USED AS THE LATEST TOOL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST SELFISH PARKING... thanks to TheBigR...

WHEN A DOCTOR PRESCRIBED A CHOLESTORAL-LOWERING WONDERDRUG UNUSUAL MUSCLE STIFFNESS FOLLOWED... BE WARNED . “Don't suppose we can put yo...

“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultan...

EXT PARIS HOTEL… Just past midnight, a grainy image captured on a security camera reveals Henri Paul, hotel security officer: He signals tow...

Concerns for Amy Winehouse and other “rehab celebs” brings to mind the Priory Hospital and NHS treatment for stars. I was first tipped...