You can be the cleverest person in the world and still find it hard to get a decent job. The interview process that people have to go through to get into good jobs these days is both rigorous and difficult. There are often twenty plus people applying for one position […]

Let us take you on a trip back in time and get you lost in the mysticism of the history of art. The year is 1503. Leonardo da Vinci has just begun his famous painting – Mona Lisa or, as many of you may know it, La Gioconda. According to […]

Like any highly-exclusive members only club, those who want in have to fit a particularly strict criteria – in this case, it involves talent, fame, sex, excess and death. Many musical enigmas have been inducted into the legendarily infamous ’27 Club’ over the past five decades, including the likes of […]

RAG, or Raise and Give, is the fundraising part of the Students’ Union of a university. It is a really well recognised organisation and universities all over the UK have a RAG, and being part of what they do can really enhance what you have to say in an interview […]

Settle down there at the back. No sniggering. Yes, it’s THAT time of year again when our political parties get together for their conferences. First up among the three main parties are the Liberal Democrats – or, as many people refer to them these days, ‘the FibDems’.  You remember why they got […]

“If you’re black, you better not show up on the street, ‘less you wanna draw the heat” (Bob Dylan, ‘Hurricane’) And sometimes you might ‘draw the heat’ using public transport, as Rosa Parks found out on a cold winter’s evening in Montgomery, Alabama back in 1955. Alabama, like all the other former […]

It was with some shock and surprise that, while I was at work on Sunday (1st Sept), news came over the radio that legendary broadcaster David Frost had died. He had figured a lot in my televisual life. Growing up as a kid, television was my life. Frost, or ‘Frostie’ […]

When one thinks of the plight of elephants in the world today, what comes to mind is the merciless killings of the African elephant for ivory. Think again. A much worse threat of extinction is happening to the Asian Elephant. These magnificent animals are often overlooked compared with their African […]