It’s a grim sight. A sight I never thought I’d see and definitely not a sight for sore eyes – quite the opposite in fact, my eyes are sore because of the sight that I will have to see for almost every day for the rest of my husk of […]

In the last few days it has come to light that this winter we can expect a 10.4% rise in heating bills from British Gas and other home energy suppliers in the UK. This might seem slightly confusing considering the cost of petrol has just seen its sharpest decline since […]

I remember the first time I got my hands on the joypad of the new NES my parents had bought me for Christmas and I must say, even though a few years later I replaced it with a mouse and keyboard, I still like the occasional console fighting game. The […]

  I don’t usually read The Evening Standard, but yesterday as I made my way to Charing Cross to have my face squished against someone’s armpit and embark on the awkward British social situation of the train, the front page of the paper caught my eye. “THE GANGS OF LONDON” […]

A second bite of the cherry always tastes sweet. Seminal ’70s band, The Faces, knew that better than most. They provided one of the musical and cultural links between the lost idealism of the ‘poptastic’ Sixties and the grey hangover of the new decade. The nucleus of the band, former Mod […]

With every hour of the day full to the brim with work, parenting, DIY, shopping and socialising, but mostly work, there is no surprise that many people are not getting sufficient sleep to help them wake up facing each new day revitalised and refreshed. Having a nightly routine to help […]

I feel like my life is one long wait… Waiting for money to appear in my bank account, waiting to get my degree, waiting till I find a better job, waiting in a queue, always waiting! After queuing for over five minutes I start to get a sort of itch […]

The most striking thing about Prisoners is that almost everyone can be considered a bad person. In the film, where the two young daughters of Dover and Grace Keller (Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello) and their neighbours, Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis) go missing, there is […]