Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone and have far-reaching effects on every aspect of a person’s life. Often going unrecognised or downplayed, the debilitating condition can be triggered by a stressful event, including a personal injury, perhaps caused in the workplace, or in a public place. If left […]

I’m here to review a book about a 16-year-old girl (Hazel) with terminal cancer who falls in love with another cancer sufferer (Augustus). Sounds rather cheery doesn’t it? But if there is one thing that you need to know about The Fault in our Stars it is this: Hazel does […]

Whilst it something of a cliche for reviewers to brand any new release from the enfant terrible of cinema, Quentin Tarantino, as signalling a ‘return to form’ for the director; it is so difficult to separate such a critical conceit from Django Unchained.

So we may not all have the luxury of a Hawaiian holiday home, a Portugal retreat, or a house, and certainly not the Hawaii dinner cruise for kids that we’d booked, and within walking distance of Fistral Beach. The dreams of sacking off the office job for a laid-back surfing […]

Occupying the dreaded bottom spot of the Barclays Premier League at the turn of the year, QPR were staring down the barrel of an ignominious return to the Championship after a summer of exorbitant spending by the ousted Mark Hughes (closely supervised by super agent and Sparky afficionado Kia Joorabchian). […]

Watch any TV news report, political show, read any newspaper article, and you will find a common thread amongst our political class across the main parties. ‘We have no money’ they say. ‘The cuts are necessary’. ‘We must reduce the deficit’, and, of course, the phrase that will be hung […]

This Danish movie star has had quite a year. Roughly, it began with a Best Actor Award at Cannes, and ended with a Best Foreign Picture nomination at the Oscars. If you’ve only heard of this 47-year-old recently, don’t beat yourself up–he started acting at the age of 30 following […]

This was the headline of a rather unusual posting on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago. The first words read, ‘I love culture!’, and it then went on to describe how this young woman would really love to go to the opera but can’t seem to find anyone to go […]