“Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fuelling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this… but decades. […]

Mercedes GP bagged their first Grand Prix victory in 57 years this afternoon with a stunning performance courtesy of young German, Nico Rosberg. The 26-year old overcame opposition from no less than five current and former World Champions to take his maiden Formula One success only a day after claiming […]

As a Kofi Annan-sponsored ceasefire between the government and rebels in Syria teeters on the brink of collapse, it is as poignant as it is heart-rending to note the parallels between this tortured conflict and the violence in the Balkans twenty years ago. The United Nations, a bloated, out-of-touch political […]

Three days ago, had I asked you what you thought of Samantha Brick, you probably would have looked at me with a blank face, willing me to divulge more information about why I had asked about this nobody. Today, you’d probably be able to talk for 20 minutes about how […]

Whilst the mainstream media has recently been bombarding the average viewer or reader with war stories from Syria, Libya, Iraq or Afghanistan, the war in Yemen is hardly getting any attention. Indeed neither are any of Washington’s other proxy wars, which also include operations in Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan[1]. However, […]

Ask the majority of people and you’ll hear them reply that music is an important part in their life and it normally will be true. However, has the importance been molded over the past two decades into something different from what it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries? […]

“The hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed.” – Orwell Fun is fast becoming an extreme sport. It seems that although it’s not illegal just yet, if you are suspected of being in conspicuously good humour, you are going to be closely watched and at […]

“In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland – starving and outnumbered – charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.” So ended Braveheart which provoked strong reactions worldwide, not least because it starred an Australian as one […]