Are English managers simply NOT good enough? In the top four tiers of English Football there are 92 clubs, 54 of which are managed by Englishman. However, a mere FOUR of these are managing teams in the Premiership, England’s top division. Sam Allardyce, Alan Pardew, Harry Redknapp and Nigel Adkins […]

It was the battle that broke the back of the Nazi juggernaut sent hurtling East against the Soviet Union. After Stalingrad, Hitler’s armies were never again able to fully recover. The Third Reich was on the road to ruin. Seventy years ago, alongside the British and Commonwealth forces’ victory over Rommel’s Afrika […]

A poll conducted by NASA and the Science and Entertainment Exchange compiled a list of the ‘least plausible’ science fiction movies of all time‘.   Unsurprisingly, 2012 got the gong for the worst offender whilst Gattaca, according to Space Agency boffins, ticked the most boxes with regard to science textbook […]

The investigation department of the Russian Interior Ministry brought new criminal charges against William Browder, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, alleging his involvement in illegal purchase of Gazprom shares. According to law enforcement agencies, the financier ran companies involved in the purchase […]

With 2013 scheduled to host two “Great Comets” in March and December amateur and professional astronomers alike will we gearing up to what looks to be a great double whammy. Comet PANSTARRS, a comet discovered in June 2011, will pass within 102 million miles from Earth at its closest and […]

An adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel, The Host sees Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, and Jake Abel starring in an apocalyptic-style love story. The human race has been taken over by an alien life form that transplants itself into the human body, repressing the human consciousness. But, when one of the […]

Onerepublic’s third album Native sees the Colorado-based band bring more fresh and catchy songs to our ears. Developing more of the upbeat sounds found in Waking Up, Native is a great album full of evocative melodies and stunning vocals by front man Ryan Tedder. The opening track, ‘Counting Stars’, certainly […]

The other half and I went down to Greenwich the other day for a little outing marking our fourteen-month anniversary (yes, alright, we know we’re soppy).  Greenwich, for us as for a lot of the people of Britain, is one of the places that, even though the North-of-the-Riverers never venture […]