Miley Cyrus’ much talked about VMA performance: was it an independent 20 year old women challenging social boundaries or merely a naive young girl craving attention? Although I feel the drama surrounding Miley’s antics was a little over the top, it has raised an important question, why do female artists […]

Every year much of impoverished Africa sees water droughts that would make Britain’s occasional “hose pipe ban” seem like a day in heaven. In 2011 alone it is thought that tens of thousands, perhaps 100s of thousands of Africans died in what became known as the East African drought. That […]

‘A week is a long time in politics,’ former PM Harold Wilson once said. He wasn’t kidding. Three weeks is even longer, especially when you have three wings of the same party doing battle in the dire hope of winning the ‘centre ground’.  For that is what our mainstream politics has […]

The arguments for and against wind power have raged back and forth over recent years between the country-loving outdoors enthusiasts who don’t want every beautiful view to be spoiled by the tall white wind turbines, to the green and energy efficient enthusiasts who would see us give up the harmful […]

Aw. Don’t blame Ed Miliband. After all, he’s done NOTHING. That is, he’s done nothing all summer to the point that various Labour luminaries were starting to get the pre-election jitters that, if he doesn’t pull his finger out soon, they fear, and present us with some policies, Labour is about […]

In recent years, there haven’t been many lines of business which have continuously soared skyward in their growth and profitability, but one that stands out from the rest is online advertising. Whilst advertising as a whole has managed to withstand the temperament of the economic crisis, online advertising especially has […]

The Indian-administered state of Kashmir can be described as nothing less but a Gordian knot. “The man who unties this knot will become the King of Asia” said the Greek god, Zeus. When Alexander The Great marched into Gordium, he untied the knot with his sword. The geo-political knot that […]

To paraphrase that other disastrous Labour Party ‘leader’, Neil (now Lord) Kinnock: ‘Now we have the grotesque chaos of a Labour leader – a Labour leader! – scuttling around trying to pander to a rightwing press agenda and falling flat on his face!’ Less than two years from the next general […]