Last week I decided to go on a night out with my university’s English Society. Despite being a mature student (only by age), I headed to a club with the posse to show them my Tap and maybe attempt to teach the art of courting. Whether it is innate, like […]

Watch any TV news report, political show, read any newspaper article, and you will find a common thread amongst our political class across the main parties. ‘We have no money’ they say. ‘The cuts are necessary’. ‘We must reduce the deficit’, and, of course, the phrase that will be hung […]

This Danish movie star has had quite a year. Roughly, it began with a Best Actor Award at Cannes, and ended with a Best Foreign Picture nomination at the Oscars. If you’ve only heard of this 47-year-old recently, don’t beat yourself up–he started acting at the age of 30 following […]

Since it parachuted onto Mars last September, the American space agency NASA has made the most of the success of the Curiosity rover as it explores the inhospitable Martian terrain around its landing site. While it has achieved some notable exploratory firsts, Curiosity is potentially harming the very human trait […]

This was the headline of a rather unusual posting on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago. The first words read, ‘I love culture!’, and it then went on to describe how this young woman would really love to go to the opera but can’t seem to find anyone to go […]

In the wake of the Lance Armstrong confessions to media tycoon and acknowledged cycling novice Oprah Winfrey, the eyes of the sporting world have once more fallen upon cycling. Old wounds have been opened, and the spectre of doping lingers around a sport seemingly on the up. Making the headlines […]

To most people in the UK, the gun debate in the US is a complete mystery. It seems obvious to us that less guns should equate to less gun-related deaths. But to Americans, the debate is about much more than that.

Slowly orbiting the Sun, its eyes fixed on a single region of our galaxy, the Kepler space observatory quietly goes about its business, scouring the Milky Way for Earth-like planets. The spacecraft, launched in 2009, is a specially designed telescope known as a photometer, or light meter. The telescope monitors […]