THE BIG RETORT

TheBigRetort had a crisis recently when a catch on its kitchen rubbish bin broke. Following which we left a heavy knife sharpener on it s...

  Startling evidence has been uncovered that recently deceased Michael Winner may not have been such a nice chap after all. Shock! Hor...

The Representation of the People Act 1969 introduced a specific provision that ‘convicted persons’ are legally incapable of voting dur...

The year was 1908. A Remarkable Wager. A man wearing an iron mask... Pushing a pram full of postcard photographs... Must find...

We recently highlighted the ‘banker’ who splashed out £71,000 on a drinks binge at a top London nightclub in one single evening - and w...

Jerome Isaac, 47, has been charged with murder and arson following the death of Deloris Gillespie, 73. The victim was set alight after be...

Following the much-publicised introduction of the new Routemaster bus, reports just in...  Boris Johnson’s new bus, named the “Son of Route...

I n our last Retort, we reported on the City hedge fund banker who received national publicity when it was revealed that he blew £71,000...

The new alternative to the hated Bendy-Bus was seen on London streets today as LBC's Nick Ferrari, and former MP Michael Portillo put ...

When newspapers recently reported the largesse of a mysterious hedge fund manager who is said to have frequented a London club where he s...

It was back in June 2010. The Kepler space telescope discovered over 750 extrasolar-planets culled from ...

George Hallam, an economist at Greenwich University,  has been nominated as the London People Before Profit candidate in the forthcoming ...

Vincent Tabak may have graduated from 'observer to perpetrator' after watching pornographic films, before going on to strangle Jo Y...

TheBigRetort:  ringleader of a gang who kept mentally disabled people in cellar escaped jail term. Linda Ann Weston, 51, was convicted in...

Police in Philadelphia recently discovered four abused and vulnerable adults shackled together in a dank cellar where they were being hel...

Edgington knife attack linked to previous double slaying at New Cross. TheBigRetort… exclusive. An urgent probe by the NHS may wis...

Sally Hodkin was on her way to work on Monday morning when she was murdered in a busy shopping street in south east London. Her assailan...

Scientists have made the recent ‘discovery’ that neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light. A short trip back in time may spread ...

New Dutch film spells big opportunity for girl with English connection. TheBigRetort profiles rising star Pippa Allen. Originally titled &q...

A curious incident is said to have occurred during the Lewisham riots that may keep Government experts pondering for quite some time... the ...

The riots in London and which also sporadically erupted around the country we now know had little if anything to do with politics or poverty...