BBC announced last Saturday that Matt Smith will leave Doctor Who in the 2013’s Christmas Special after three years in the role. For the record, I’ll state that I haven’t been a big fan of Matt Smith as the Doctor. It’s not to do with his talen:, he’s clearly a very good actor, […]

In typical high fantasy fiction there is an obvious lack of female protagonists compared to other genres. While there may be female characters, they are rarely ever the heroine, let alone a heroine who conquers and vanquishes Evil. Daughter of the Empire is an exception, and is intriguing enough to […]

As anybody who has watched The Social Network will know, Facebook originally started as a website for students at the prestigious Harvard University in America. Launched in 2004, it offered some similar services to what it does now: adding friends, creating profiles and sharing status’ are all core functions, but […]

Twitter is unique in so many ways. It allows those who might go unheard to express their talents, thoughts and opinions, not only to their followers, but to the world at large via hashtags, retweeting, twitpiccing and so forth. When I first joined a couple of years back, I was […]

Before the NUS demo in London on the 21st of November, across the internet, people popped up on basically every media outlet, describing why they wouldn’t march/didn’t think we should. Among the most wide-spread of these was the parody twitter hashtag #Deluded2012 (as supposed to the NUS official hashtag #demo2012). […]

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 […]