We all know about the UK’s counterterrorism policy and the controversy that surrounds it, but the question we all ask is, is the policy all that successful? According to Home Office, “The official objective of the strategy, CONTEST, is to ‘reduce the risk from international terrorism, so that people can […]

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is anything but incredible. Steve Carrell and Steve Buscemi play Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton in a Martin & Lewis type of magic acts that they’ve shared for the last decade at Bally’s in Las Vegas.  They are best friends on-stage, but bicker constantly behind it, […]

Scopolamine or “The Devils Breath” as it has become known, is a part hallucinogenic part delirium inducing drug native to the northern area of South America including Ecuador, Venezuela and of course Columbia. Its effects vary from being mildly euphoric (When mixed with opiates) to causing a zombie-like state that […]

You might want to get a cup of tea and a nice selection of biscuits. This might be a long episode. But whatever you do, don’t fall asleep! In fact, so we can avoid such instances, I have decided to divide this title into two parts. Feast your eyes on […]

The TV channel ‘Challenge’ has stuck entertainment oil with its concept of showing old episodes of games show such as The Crystal Maze and Family Fortunes. Everyone loves being nostalgic from time to time, and if nothing else, turning retro is good for a laugh. Whilst waiting for another show […]

The turn of the twenty-first century saw a boom in alternative rock culture; bands like The Hives and New York’s finest, The Strokes, were starting out strong and building an army of Converse that took their pet ‘indie’ kids everywhere with them. A whole new sub-culture was born, albeit a […]

When I first set eyes on Caitlin Moran’s novel ‘How to Be a Woman’, I noticed two things. Firstly, that the title presumes to tell me how to ‘be’ based solely on the fact that I am a woman, and, secondly, that the woman on the front cover has unkempt […]

Today MoonProject is partnering with The Folio Society to give away a copy of award-winning book “Pompeii“. This fantastic book by award-winning author Mary Beard digs beneath the myth to bring us as close as possible to the real Pompeii – a place of contradiction whose destruction still grips the world’s imagination […]