Most arguments for the moral obligation of vegetarianism either follow Peter Singer’s lead and demand equal consideration for animals on utilitarian grounds, or they follow Tom Regan’s deontological rights-based theory. I will try to defend utilitarianism as the ultimate ethical theory that is able to compromise an active solution to […]

Formula One kicks off the summer season this weekend with round eight of the 2012 World Championship taking place at the Valencia street circuit in its guise as the European Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton arrives back in Europe fresh from his commanding victory in the demanding Canadian Grand Prix a […]

You’re waiting at the train station, the anticipation that’s been building for the past few weeks pumping feverously around your body as you stand there eagerly, peering down the track wondering why it can’t be here already. The last few seconds of a wait that has been weeks on end, […]

On Wednesday a parliamentary bill to introduce a mainly elected House of Lords will be published. Inside the so-called ‘Westminster bubble’, MPs are jostling for position while trying to work out who will support the Government’s plans and who will vote against the proposed legislation. The bill has strong support […]

 Odd happenings seen through wild Romanian eyes “Maybe this is the way it is for everybody, only you are weaker, or less lucky, or have seen something they all have not.” – Nick McDonell, Twelve A few months ago, on the 7th of April 2012, whilst the rich were attending […]

If you’re thinking about heading out on Saturday evening, going clubbing, to the pub, or just enjoying the last weekend of sun before the inevitable Bank Holiday downpour, then I regret to inform you of what you’ll be missing out on. Forget the Summer Olympics, Euro 2012 and the Jubilee, […]

A tenuous link – an experience shared. William Bradford, the son of a Yorkshire farmer, was born in sleepy Austerfield, just outside Doncaster in 1590. What if I was to tell you this man was a factor two of mankind’s most heroic adventures? That without him Neil Armstrong may never […]

Travel is my number one pleasure – I absolutely live for it.  I had just returned from a wonderful two weeks in India over New Year, as well as being faced with two upcoming exams that I had done little work for, when my great friend rang me late one […]