A good documentary, like a good book, stays with you for days after watching it, and Europe’s Last Dictator, although not easy to watch, did just this.  While the documentary’s UK premiere in March this year, was a glittering and public event, it was a far cry from the conditions […]

Nobody can deny our athletes’ achievements at the 2012 Olympics. Their hard work paid dividends in medals and prestige earned for themselves. They provided a canvas for us to emote all the highs and lows, heartaches and triumphs. For a little over two weeks, we could put aside our troubles, all the woes […]

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sheffield Arena Noel Gallagher walks onstage to the repetitious, drunken, hooligan like chants of “Noel! Noel! Noel”, to which his response is a very calm, collected, “what?” Song one is “It’s Good To Be Free” an old Oasis B-Side from way back when given a […]

The last two weeks have provided irrefutable proof that the Olympic spirit is more than an idea – and it may just turn out to be the shot in the arm so badly needed by debt-ridden Britain. After more than a decade of planning, preparation and nervous tension, London 2012 […]

To some, vintage is just smelly, used, out of date clothing. But what’s the difference between wearing an item of clothing that’s twenty-five years old or trying on something cheap and new from Primark that dozens of people have already tried on? Buy it, wash it and it is as […]

Today I saw photographs of people on the internet uniting in support of free speech.  They went, in there thousands, to different branches of ‘Chick-Fil-A’ across America for the world’s newest calendar event, ‘Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day’.  This development came as a response to the controversy caused by COO Dan Carthy’s […]

Ever since the spectacular opening ceremony that was masterminded by Danny Boyle, the whole of the country seems to have got behind Team GB. Everywhere you go, your eyes are drawn to people sporting Team GB t-shirts, bags and caps, while most shops in high streets up and down the […]

A bitch called Lassie, that was our first dog. She was an alsation cross, one year old and donated by a woman around the corner. She didn’t want her anymore, so we took her in. Lassie was chained to a battered wooden kennel in the back yard but that didn’t last. My […]