The Oscars are the culminating point of the film awards season, and one of the most commented things in the previous months had been the absence of Ben Affleck in the Best Director category. To sum up, he has been proclaimed the best director at the Golden Globes, the Baftas, […]

Facebook stalking is something which seems to define our culture. Living behind screens, ‘interacting’ with people via ‘Pokes’, ‘Tweets’ and ‘Likes’. Bored stalkers, faceless behind their laptop screens, clicking away in the artificial blue glow of their laptops with trance-like eyes. We all do it, don’t we, if we’re honest? […]

When my friend visited my friend and I at university they said that they wanted to go and watch Warm Bodies at the cinema, I had no objections – a chilled night out with two of my closest friends was better than staying in and being bored. Yes, I didn’t […]

Brazilian conductor Zeli Leite’s life was completely changed after his daughter was diagnosed with autism. Nowadays, he travels the world raising money for the cause and helping other parents through his experience. When I received an email confirming the date of our interview one point on it grabbed my attention […]

“WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE”, is the dramatic end of The Communist Manifesto; one of the most influential, idealistic, but impractical pieces of political literature that has ever been written. It’s a shame that Marx never lived to see his “solution” to history being employed innocently into a state; or perhaps […]

Plans to introduce Drug and Alcohol testing are to be put forward by Birmingham City Council in the next few days, following the residential treatment program implementation. The corporate Health and safety committee say their aim is to implement and launch these policies with an emphasis on raising awareness and […]

So David Cameron has changed his mind about immigration (certain types of immigration). His stance for the last two years has been, ‘you are not welcome’. He spoke of getting migration targets down to tens, rather than hundreds of thousands and the way he was to achieve that was to […]

The rise and fall of Arsene Wenger After an eight year trophy drought, the Arsenal team of today could not be any further away from the team that once went 49 consecutive games in the Premier League without losing. Arsene Wenger’s side crashed out of FA Cup at the weekend […]