November the 22nd saw a major victory for shark conservation as the EU strengthened their ban on shark finning. Shark finning is the act of slicing off the fins of captured sharks, whilst the bodies, often still alive, are usually thrown back into the ocean. The live sharks, unable to […]

With the recent fury over the ‘Savile Scandals’ and the re-emergence of the horrific abuses that took place in many North Wales children homes, the attack on the BBC is the latest in a long line of stories to distract our attention momentarily from the actual victims of abuse – and from the trail that […]

“Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. For six years I had declined to tell those kinds of jokes, because I have been told it is not presidential. But I feel kind of outdoorsy today.” –Bill Clinton I was distractedly travelling between East London’s public libraries […]

Tensions rise as North Korea tried, for the third time, to blast a rocket into orbit on Friday the 13th of April this year. This unrest is said to be caused by the sudden change in government after former leader Kim Jong Il died last year. The Obama administration officials […]

Are our politicans just headline grabbers, do they ever mean big business to abide by the “rules” like everyone else, and are we ,the people, going to stand by and let capitalist culture defraud us? Will they ever support transparency in tax legislation (ie laws) and pay as they sell? […]

What really happened on the 16th August at Lonmin mines?  Almost three months on, this case- originally labelled tragic but unavoidable- has seen more and more evidence of a blatant cover-up being brought to the surface. The story starts with a group of miners at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South […]

How do you like the countermeasures your elected representatives have given us to combat climate-change? After all, you wouldn’t have elected them without their “green” credentials, would you? Every politician knows that current science suggests we burn less of those damaging fossil fuels in order to preserve our planet  so […]

  A chill winter is hitting the world of publishing, as though Narnia’s White Witch came trundling past leaving doomsdayers and naysayers petrified. Willfully deluded optimists (such as myself) are citing that the freedoms of epublishing will revolutionise the industry and overthrow the giant sloths who have trapped us in […]