The X Factor often gets accused of being formulaic, but if that was really the case they wouldn’t need to waste so much of everybody’s time with auditions and bootcamps and the like. So we’ve tried to figure it out. We did some deep statistical analysis on the contest’s winners and now we’re ready to save Simon Cowell some serious man hours…
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Eurovisionary
We've been skirting around the edges of this for the best part of a decade now, trying to explain from the sidelines...
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Swing Vote
Michael Gove's little quip about parliamentary swingers in their mid-50s caught us a bit off-guard this week. As we mentioned back in...
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Cool For Copycats
Bruno Mars has definitely found his groove. After a series of successful, yet sonically schizophrenic, singles the pint-sized popster has settled into...
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Whine Of The Times
Once a reliable refuge from the miseries of the modern world, the pop charts are becoming every bit as grim as real...
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