Are our politicans just headline grabbers, do they ever mean big business to abide by the “rules” like everyone else, and are we ,the people, going to stand by and let capitalist culture defraud us? Will they ever support transparency in tax legislation (ie laws) and pay as they sell? […]

The farcical state of modern consumerism   I was, for the first time in my life, buying toilet paper en masse yesterday. Hypothetically, this should be a simple ‘shop fast and go home’ procedure, alas I was met with a predicament equal in complexity to my winter exam. Upon arriving […]

Sebastian Vettel is on the verge of an incredible third straight World Championship crown after qualifying ahead of the inaugural American Grand Prix to be held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The German claimed his sixth pole position of the season while title rival Fernando Alonso […]

It has certainly been a golden year for Bond. Sam Mendes’ ‘Skyfall’, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s 007 series, has not only become the biggest film of 2012 at the UK box office with profits of over £57m, but is also officially the UK’s highest grossing […]

The blurb to J. K. Rowling’s new novel, The Casual Vacancy, introduces it as her ‘first novel for adults’. Despite this claim I would make a calculated guess that the majority of adults that have picked up this book, or even those who haven’t, will have read the Harry Potter […]

Historical fiction is baffling in its complexity, and the writers baffling in their academic endurance. True historical writers spend months, if not years, researching their given period in such depth that their world comes alive in magnificent, anachronistic fashion. ‘The Song of Achilles’ is not conventional historical fiction,  yet Madeline Miller spent 10 years researching Ancient Greek […]

We hear a lot about the “big” cancers; breast cancer being one of them- affecting 1 in 8 women in the UK alone. But what about men? Although men can in fact get breast cancer, testicular cancer is rarely mentioned. My own brother aged 15 didn’t know that men could […]

‘On the Road’ is by no means a bad film. I would suggest that the reason many critics have found it distasteful could be because they have failed to understand it. And by it, I mean ‘it’. Unfortunately, ‘it’ – the drive that is submerged behind Kerouac’s majestic prose – […]