Recently, the husband of a police officer who died during 9/11 decided to return her Glamour “Woman of the Year” award. This is because Caitlyn Jenner was recognised with the same award, which Moira Smith’s husband James disagreed with. Moira Smith’s heroic actions no doubt made her a justified recipient […]

Other-worldly references in song have frequently been used to express more corporeal pre-occupations. Whether it’s ruminating on lost or broken relationships, unfulfilled possibilities, broader social malaise or just wistful navel-gazing, the supernatural provides that compelling image that draws the listener in. Typically employing the concept of the ghost, or a […]

The mid twenties: one of life’s most intriguing stepping-stones. Old enough to take out a mortgage, young enough to still reside in your mum’s house. Old enough to make an informed vote in the election, young enough to ponder over what David Cameron does all day. Old enough to enjoy […]

Being fit is very much the “in thing” right now – something that we are all thoroughly reminded of through internet sites, television programmes, newspapers, magazines and so forth. It’s an ongoing trend that doesn’t seem likely to run out of steam any time soon. Consequently I can assume that, in addition […]

As many of your friends, family and probably the majority of the internet may have voiced to you, university is widely known as a life changing and reaffirming time in which you discover your true self, take on eye opening experiences, and make friendships that last a life time – […]

Long before the disgraceful and absurd controversy over Idris Elba’s suitability to play James Bond, Elba had already starred in one of Tyler Perry’s best movies, “Daddy’s Little Girls”, a poignant drama about an underemployed mechanic from the inner city fighting for custody of his three daughters from a rather […]

When the American television network Fox announced that it would not renew The Mindy Project for a fourth season the internet seemed to sag with a collective gloom. There was an outpouring of sadness that the sitcom, which charts the romantic prevails of an OBGYN in New York, would be […]

Felicia Day’s new memoir, You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost), is the latest entry in the thriving female confessional genre and it’s perhaps one of the strangest. For those who don’t know, Day is the internet superstar actress/writer/producer/blogger who first came to pop-culture attention when she created and starred […]