As claims that President-elect Barack Obama swore a Godless oath in a (later) private ceremony at the White House are strongly denied, TheBigRetort asks, did 'they' collude in order to separate the Church from the States?The official swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States of America commenced later than usual, causing us to wonder if this may have been due to a 'problem with the Oath'.The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1... Read Full Story

At noon today, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England slashed the Bank’s base rate by a full percentage point to 2%, matching the lowest level in its 314-year history, a low not seen since 1951. In fact, the base rate has never gone below 2% since it was founded in 1694.[thebaserate.com is for sale]http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/DLrm Read Full Story

The secret to living a longer life, or just a load of plonk? TheBigRetort pulls the cork...Scientists claim that sirtuins, proteins, become increasingly important as people age. It is these proteins that ensure which genes should be “off” - and thereby remain silent as the ageing process continues. Paradoxically it is these same proteins that are believed to repair DNA damage as we age. The critical protein controls which genes are off and on as well as overseeing DNA repair - and there’s the... Read Full Story

A company that sends out domain extension registration requests prompting users to register a domain that they already own, but with a different extension (.us, .org, .biz, etc), is revealed by TheBigRetort as a scam.The company styling itself "DNNP" request $75 for 1 year registration. However, the notifications, which appear as if they come from a registrar, are in fact culled from the WhoIs database - and is spam. Not all domain registrants will be aware that it costs less than $... Read Full Story

With little more than two days to go before the newly elected leader of the free world is chosen some Americans are STILL undecided about where the country is headed: to the past or to the future?'I don't know Obama,' comes the lame riposte that some Americans offer when asked who they are going to choose.A response that seems not only forked of tongue but 'color' coded too.Indeed, many citizens of the free world, and those of the not so free, may wonder how anyone living ... Read Full Story

A controversial experiment is planned to take place tomorrow that may signal THE END of the Earth. But could experiments like the controversial Large Hadron Collider (LHC) already have taken place? TheBigRetort investigates...and discovers that someone may have got the 'maths' wrong. The LHC Safety Study Group studied the safety of the forthcoming experiment in 2003. It concluded that the planned experiments—there are a number of them--presented no danger.The group focused on two p... Read Full Story

Sunday is a special day in the calendar because it's usually spent in pursuit of traditional good pub grub. So is another London eatery going to be added to TheBigRetort list of the best 'roast outs'?The Dartmouth Arms (pictured above), with its convivial surroundings seemed on the face of it like another great choice in an ever-expanding portfolio. The pub had a welcoming front-of-house staff.It was a sunny and pleasant day with light streaming through a central skylight onto wha... Read Full Story

Recently we delivered a startling account of the major failings of Eastbourne District General Hospital and its 'aftercare' treatment... of a dead man. Michael Morgan, 51, died in December last and was swiftly cremated on the instruction of hospital officials at 'EDGH': but without the family's knowledge. Following which, they asked for the ashes. Not much to ask given the circumstances one might think, however... it was a request that met with silence. Now, finally, the f... Read Full Story

An article recently published in TheBigRetort, highlighting the case of a family that has been attempting to get a hospital to release their loved one's ashes, has disappeared from world-wide-web search engines. The only one to do so in our buried news series.The article, Michael's Ashes: Money To burn, created a bit of a stir. Michael Morgan, 51, died at Eastbourne DGH. However, as highlighted in the article, Mr Morgan's family in Liverpool was neither informed of the death or th... Read Full Story

Michael Morgan, aged 51, of Liverpool, died at Eastbourne District General Hospital in December 2007. Nothing unusual there... people die in hospital all the time. However, within two weeks his body was cremated: without his family's knowledge. In fact no one had told them he was dead. So why, seven months later, does East Sussex NHS Trust, refuse to hand over Michael's ashes to his family? Has it got money to burn? TheBigRetort investigates [Pictured above, Kim Hodgson, CEO of East S... Read Full Story