Mark Hughes being Mark Hughes. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images
As anyone who’s stood next to the Mill in the fifth floor toilets will tell you, this substandard gossip column is the very definition of the little guy. So it’s good to see one of our own [LEGAL NOTE: in the metaphorical, not the physical sense] getting [...]

Introducing Liverpool’s new manager. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
You know it’s a slow news day on guardian.co.uk’s official story generator, Sky Sports News, when Alex Quinn’s Tip Of The Day is third on the running order, sandwiched between an exclusive preview of this weekend’s fanzone and a Mike Wedderburn joke about the Francis Bacon retrospective at [...]

Could this man soon be popping up on Las Ramblas? Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Enjoy your life while you can as, tonight, the eighth round of Big Brother starts. Please do not swear.
This year’s gormless collection of goons and chumps include a 16 year-old blind boy, a ‘comic’ (we’ll see about that), a US deportee, [...]