The ONS list of the most popular baby names in the UK during 2010 has been published and there are some stunning results.  We’re not going to look at the girls names (because they could be used for a second post), today we’re going to look at boys names.  Here...

If you are one of our Argentinian or Chilean based readers, you may have seen bikes, quads, cars and trucks flying through your garden in the last week. This, we must point out, is not the doing of 7 Reasons. Instead we point you in the direction of the Dakar Rally...

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a Christmas traffic jam, in the same way as there is no such thing as a Christmas turkey, but you know what I mean. Which is just as well, because if I had used ’7 Reasons To Embrace The Traffic Jams You Experience...

It is fair to say that there wasn’t a lot of fakery about the 7 Reasons HQ up until today – except maybe the dancing girls and the tiramisu tap – but that has rather suddenly changed. Today we find the 7 Reasons sofa in a forest. A fake forest. A fake...

As I was walking yesterday, on the road to Sainsbury’s, a strange and life-changing event occurred.  I strolled past a man carrying a newspaper and, upon the back of that newspaper there was a picture.  An image of Ricky Ponting looking glum.  Christ, I thought,...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. And to celebrate we take an irreverent look at some of his finest work. If you are easily offended by lyric assassination, please walk away now.The Young Lembit Opik1.  Imagine –...

Hello!  It’s Wednesday, and regular 7 Reasons (.org) readers might be surprised to find a guest post here.  But today is special.  Because today is the day that The Ashes begins, and I can’t begin to tell you how excited the 7 Reasons team are by this.  Well, I...

It’s Sunday!  But it’s not just any Sunday, it’s 10/10/10.  And, because at 7 Reasons we’re really quite cool – despite all the tea-drinking and war-buffery – we’ve posted today’s piece at ten past ten.  So, at the very moment that this post goes...

Howdy! I’ll give you two guesses as to who is writing this. Wrong! Correct! Yes, it’s me, Jon. Now for those of you who read 7 Reasons on a daily basis (I.E.: Marc) you’ll know that on Wednesday of this week I wrote a rather scathing piece about the...

Hello, it’s me again. I’m still reliving my youth. I am sure it won’t come as much surprise to you, but instead of Grange Hill and Byker Grove, my childhood programme of choice was Blue Peter. Yesterday, I decided to watch it for the first time in...

7 Reasons Fernando Is Faster Than You