Online dating sites, historically receiving mixed reviews anyway, have gone and innovated yet again in the form of MissTravel.com: which I’ve been told is something like a hybrid between couch-surfing and a brothel. Unlikely to get the boisterous thumbs up from the religious sector, then. The site invites women (or […]

Despite the pessimistic guesses and raised eyebrows at the information that had been leaked for London’s plans to welcome in the 30th Olympic Games, the opening ceremony designed by Danny Boyle was a breathtakingly brilliant vibrant spectacle that encompassed a vast display of everything that is British. While no single […]

“Fifteen years of madness and mayhem,” my friend Alan used to say when he spoke of his drug-taking days. “I was mad. I was angry with the world. I could be your best friend in the morning and your worst enemy in the afternoon,” he said. I met Alan when […]

People are pouring into the city. There is no doubt about it. It takes something special to noticeably swell the ranks of one of the greatest cities in the world and that something is the Olympic games. Citius, Altus, Fortus. By its very nature the Olympic games lends itself to […]

Just as some voters thought it was safe to go back to the Labour Party, three-time election winner Tony Blair told the press how much he missed being Prime Minister and would welcome the chance to return to No. Ten. ‘Though I don’t think it will happen,’ he was quoted as saying –but […]

You might have heard of Gatz, the somewhat infamous eight-hour play that’s had a month long run in the West End as part of the London International Festival of Theatre this summer at the Noel Coward Theatre. The fact of it lasting eight hours usually makes an impression and sometimes generates curiosity. […]

So often when people criticise the United States of America, it comes across as misinformed, self-righteous snobbery done largely with the intent of boosting our jolly British egotism. After all, the US has produced some of the finest writers, singers, artists, scientific minds and thinkers the world has entertained—yet now […]

No matter which way you drive into the city, the first thing you’ll see coming over the horizon is a sign bearing the legendary ‘Welcome to Norwich, A Fine City’ –an understatement by any stretch of the imagination. Norwich has something to offer every type of tourist and visitor; it’s […]