Jesus Christ, We’ve Won Another Sort Of Award (Sort Of) Here's something we weren't really expecting - hecklerspray's just won the runner-up prize in the UK2.0 Britain Upgraded awards. Set up to recognise websites that are 'truly taking Britain into the world of Web 2.0', the UK2.0 Britain Upgraded awards have decided that we're the second-best entertainment website in the country. Which we're perfectly OK with, since the only thing ...

Merry Christmas To Everyone (Except You) That's hecklerspray all done for 2008, then - it's time for our annual attempt to use these withered 'leg' things that we've heard so much about. Looking back it's been a bit of a golden year, really - Britney Spears went mental, Lindsay Lohan became a lesbian and Paris Hilton got robbed. Oh, and some idiot invented Twilight. We take it ...

Hecklerspray Down This Weekend (We Mean It This Time) Hello all. Some of you may have seen the quickly-deleted post we published yesterday informing you that hecklerspray wouldn't be working today. Well, look, it is. Woo. Our scheduled server switch got nudged back a few hours, which is why we managed to sneak a handful of glorious stories up today. However, we are definitely changing our server this weekend, and that means that hecklerspray might be inaccessible from time to ...

Follow Our Balls Off On Twitter, Please Have you ever wished you could see into hecklerspray's mind? Right inside its mind so that you know every one of its most inconsequential thoughts about nothing in particular? Well you can! Because hecklerspray is on Twitter! Properly on Twitter, too, now. We're not just slapping our RSS feed on there and forgetting about it like before. We've actually ...

Blog Action Day 2008: Blogs Vs Poverty Despite the best efforts of Madonna, Pink Floyd and Ewan McGregor clicking his fingers during Live 8 in 2005, poverty still inexplicably exists. And, as always, where celebrities fail, bloggers are there to clean up the mess. Which explains why today is Blog Action Day, when over 10,000 blogs all take some time to mention poverty in the blind hope that readers will stop looking at videos of cats falling off things for a moment to be preached at by several inert bloggers who haven't been outside for upwards of six or seven months. So here goes nothing...

It’s The ‘Help Hecklerspray’ Poll: Stu’s Beard This picture is of hecklerspray editor Stuart Heritage's beard. As some of you already know, Stu promised that he'd grow this beard for a month to see what it looked like and then shave it off. That month is up, but now he doesn't know whether to keep it or not. And this is where you come in. Stu has already ...

Message From The Editor: Stu’s Back, Don’t All Cheer At Once Hello kids. Stu here. After three weeks spent doing little other than making Gary Bushell angry enough to puke his silly little beard off, I'm only flipping well back, aren't I? So, once again, well done to Ian Dransfield for being spectacularly capable at keeping the old girl afloat for the last few weeks. He's good, isn't he? Sickeningly so. How I hate him. But, yes, now I'm back. Make of ...

Goodbye, Old Friends. Miss Me Not, For I Am Going To A Better Place (The Pub). Well, I'm done now - you get Stuart Heritage back as of Monday. Covering life, love, death and destruction - as well as not realising some people had died, even though we'd reported that they hadn't - I've had a fun three-and-a-bit weeks at the helm of hecklerspray. I literally have no idea how Stu keeps up with it all, but hey ho - some things must just be down to voodoo trickery. I'd like to thank you for all of your support, and highlight some of the most life-affirming of the comments I have received over the last near-three weeks, after the drop.