Terry Foster: Lions LB Zack Follett's personality a cut above

During his first stint as a pitch man, Follett rips up a studio, threatens to beat up anybody who gets a wimpy haircut and tells folks why Lady Jane's is the best place for Lions fans to get a haircut.

William Hague: How on earth did he get in this mess?

Damian Thompson, an Oxford contemporary, paints a revealing portrait of the Foreign Secretary's career.

More Mr Nice Guy: Why everyone loves Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey has gone topless, and 6,365 people have gone potty. That's how many followers the actor has amassed on Twitter in the 24 hours since creating an account on the social-network site. Being "ordained", as he puts it, by Stephen Fry, the high priest of 140-character ego-bulletins, helped ("Welcome, Russell Tovey, to Twitter," tweeted Fry). "Suddenly," he exclaims in his none-more-Essex ...

WWE and TNA Thoughts Of The Week

I am back with my thoughts on this week's WWE and TNA news. There were some interesting things that happened this week, while there were also some stupid things happen. Still, it was an interesting week in wrestling. So this week I will be talking about Raw's 900th episode, Matt Hardy being upset with the way he is being treated, John Cena being revealed to be pushing talent down, and some other ...

For chefs, vacation is all play and some work

Curtis Duffy took off on a 1,200-mile motorcycle ride, and was surprised to find himself thinking about cattails. Danny Salgado talked pickling with his girlfriend's 93-year-old grandmother in Iowa. And Phillip Foss discovered the most ethereal doughnuts — in Ohio. And then he got fired. Chef vacations are an oxymoron.