This week in the news I read about the alleged rape of Shia LaBeouf. I loath using the word alleged as a precursor to rape. If someone says they were raped, if you ask me we should live in a society that believes that claim. As idealistically left-wing as that […]

‘Britain Isn’t Eating’ – the first of a series of microplays directed by a collaboration of Guardian journalists and Royal Court theatre-makers published on the 17th November has brought to light the unabashed dismissal from the coalition government in its approach to dealing with the alarming food poverty crisis that […]

NATO does not seek a confrontation with Russia or a new Cold war, but will not jeopardize the European principles of security, said Jens Stoltenberg, the new Secretary General of NATO, former Prime Minister of Norway, during his speech at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels on October 28,2014. According […]

Black Friday marks a time where the American masses seem to be blind folded and sent out from their homes and herded into shops at obscene hours of the day to spend cash they have or may not have in preparation for the coming season. Ironic that the previous day […]

Commenting on anything Lena Dunham does is a tricky proposition – she’s the critical community’s princess as well as its piñata; everything she says is analysed for its feminist credentials and she is dissected on internet chartrooms with a fervour that is usually only reserved for the devil herself, Gwyneth […]

With the global imagination fired by stories of the European Space Agency’s Philae and Rosetta spacecraft earlier this month, NASA is little more than a week away from launching the next chapter in human space flight history. On 4th December a Delta IV rocket will carry the country’s new Orion […]

The students taking part in the large-scale protests in Hong Kong that began on September 28 have no intentions to leave the streets, says an informal Reuters survey taken one month after the first day of disobedience. According to the results, 87% of the so-called “Umbrella Movement” participants said they […]

Well, where do I start? Kim Kardashian skyrocketed her way to fame when her sex tape with ex-beau Ray J went public in 2007. What’s most disturbing about the surfacing of the tape is that Kris Jenner (the matriarch of the reality family) is supposed to have orchestrated the whole […]