The 90s were so packed with great rock music that genuinely brilliant albums got buried. While everyone was listening to Nevermind and Ten, these ten records were sitting in the corner being ignored. They deserved better. Here they are. #10 – Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (1996) After…
Most conspiracy theories are nonsense. But every now and then, the paranoid ones turn out to be right. These ten theories were dismissed, mocked, and labelled the work of cranks — until the evidence came in and proved them correct. The truth, it turns out, is often stranger than the theory. #10 – The tobacco…
The headphone market has changed dramatically in the last few years. What used to cost £200 now costs £40. Noise cancellation, Bluetooth 5.0, and genuine high-fidelity sound are all available at budget prices if you know where to look. These are the ten best headphones under £50 available in the UK right now. #10 –…
Some games are hard. These games are something else entirely. They broke controllers, ended friendships, and in a few cases may have genuinely affected people’s mental health. Here are the ten most difficult video games ever made, ranked by how completely and mercilessly they punished the player. #10 – Cuphead (2017) Cuphead looks like a…
You do not need to spend hundreds of pounds to get a great cup of coffee at home. The gap between a £40 machine and a £400 machine is real, but it is not as large as the price difference suggests. These are the ten best coffee makers under £100 available in the UK right…
Professional athletes are the most physically prepared people on the planet. Decades of training, nutritionists, physios, and millions of dollars invested in keeping their bodies in perfect condition. And then one of them throws his back out picking up a cracker. These are the ten most bizarre sports injuries in history. #10 – Lionel Simmons…
The 80s produced more one-hit wonders than any other decade in music history. Some of them were flukes. Some were ahead of their time. And some were so perfectly constructed that one hit was honestly enough. Here are the ten best, ranked by how deeply they burrowed into the collective memory of anyone who lived…
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote some of the most psychologically intense fiction in human history. A man who survived a mock execution, years of hard labour in Siberia, and crippling gambling addiction, he put all of that darkness onto the page. But where do you start? And which books are actually worth your time? Here is our…
The PlayStation 1 launched in 1994 and gave us some of the greatest games ever made. But for every Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid, there are dozens of brilliant titles that slipped through the cracks. These are the games that deserved far more attention than they ever got — the hidden gems of…
When we think of cults, we think of blind devotion, manipulation, and tragedy. These leaders didn’t just attract followers — they consumed them. Here are the 10 most notorious cult leaders in history, ranked by their influence, destruction, and lasting infamy. #10 – Marshall Applewhite (Heaven’s Gate) Applewhite convinced 39 followers that a spaceship trailing…