It’s common sense to assume that if a person were to sit in an empty room all day with nothing to do, they would be incredibly bored. But is the same true of our pets? A recent study, published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, suggests that it is, and […]

Lewis Hamilton won yesterday’s American Grand Prix after Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel complained of being compromised by backmarker Narain Karthikeyan during his battle with Hamilton for victory. The reigning World Champion started from pole position and led for much of the race but lost out when Karthikeyan held him […]

It’s that time of year once again and colds and flus are absolutely all over the place. With there being so many germs out there and so many ways that a cold or flu virus can spread, it’s inevitable that you’ll catch something at some point in your life. Usually […]

Are our politicans just headline grabbers, do they ever mean big business to abide by the “rules” like everyone else, and are we ,the people, going to stand by and let capitalist culture defraud us? Will they ever support transparency in tax legislation (ie laws) and pay as they sell? […]

The farcical state of modern consumerism   I was, for the first time in my life, buying toilet paper en masse yesterday. Hypothetically, this should be a simple ‘shop fast and go home’ procedure, alas I was met with a predicament equal in complexity to my winter exam. Upon arriving […]

Sebastian Vettel is on the verge of an incredible third straight World Championship crown after qualifying ahead of the inaugural American Grand Prix to be held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The German claimed his sixth pole position of the season while title rival Fernando Alonso […]

It has certainly been a golden year for Bond. Sam Mendes’ ‘Skyfall’, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s 007 series, has not only become the biggest film of 2012 at the UK box office with profits of over £57m, but is also officially the UK’s highest grossing […]

The blurb to J. K. Rowling’s new novel, The Casual Vacancy, introduces it as her ‘first novel for adults’. Despite this claim I would make a calculated guess that the majority of adults that have picked up this book, or even those who haven’t, will have read the Harry Potter […]