“There he goes, one of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” – Hunter S. Thompson No matter what field of work you’re in anywhere in the world and no matter how hard […]

  Warning: this article will contain the ‘n-word’, and other similar words, because, put simply, it’s about the ‘n-word’. It relates to the recent story about the BBC editing out a scene of an episode of the repeated series of ‘Fawlty Towers’ because of censorship. Now I don’t like that word, and never have […]

So this seems to be the month for heavy hitting political films based on great American presidents. Yes, that is what you get from Lincoln, but from Hyde Park on Hudson, you get meh. I was looking forward to it; it’s set during a fascinating period in history and centred […]

Attitudes towards male beautification have become more liberal over the years, with the evolution of the modern-day man juxtaposing away from the ‘rough and rugged’ look. Globally, the male species is transitioning and reinventing themselves with the amplitude of a growing number of male beauty products. Annually, men in the […]

To be fair, I should have known, really, with the fact that the main thing Movie 43 was screaming was how many known names and faces were in it, instead of anything whatsoever to do with the plot, characters and theme – that this movie was going to suck. And […]

In October 2012 Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and handed a lifelong ban from cycling. Armstrong was, if the not the greatest of all time, without doubt the greatest cyclist of the modern era. He is known to people all over the world whether […]

More than 2,500 business leaders and politicians discussed the current economic situation and took part in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), which ended in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Saturday, January 26. The theme of the meetings was Resilient Dynamism, with the largest number of discussion sessions […]

Before becoming a proud father I was sent this simple, yet honest statement “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for…” No other words could put the experience of fatherhood into perspective, so […]