On a recent trip to England, I was struck by the amount of Union Jacks to be found on just about everything one can buy alongside many shops crammed with royal family merchandise. Admittedly, I have not visited for some time, but I could feel something of a buzz in […]

When I began writing this article I was bordering on cynical, but perhaps that’s just me feeling bitter and selfish for the fact that despite it being called the ‘Royal Mail’, the people in the postal service are (and rightly so) enjoying the double bank holiday meaning I won’t get the […]

Like most of the nine thousand other viewers who tuned into the first episode of The Voice UK on 24th March this year, I was encouraged by the different direction that the show seemed to be taking. It seemed that the public had warmed to the ‘swivel chaired’ uniqueness of […]

This weekend Formula One rolls into Montreal at the famous Gilles Villeneuve circuit, scene of F1’s longest ever race in 2011. That weekend Jenson Button weathered the storm to claim his first victory of the season despite enduring a record number of safety car periods, 6 visits to the pitlane […]

“The true democrat is he who with purely non-violent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.” – Mahatma Ghandi Despite India being the biggest democracy in the world, democracy is failing the majority of the country’s inhabitants, with a large number […]

Dexter – The TV series Let me start off by saying that I am huge fan of Dexter the TV series. I watched 5 series, all 60 hours, back to back in 6 days. I simply could not get enough of the snarky comments from Dexter or wait to hear […]

“I would rather that my whole family die of hunger than to let my daughter do the work I do.” “I’d rather that my children do anything other than this, anything at all.” says Shanta Balmike, a manual scavenger. Armed with nothing but their hands, close to a million ‘manual […]

As the first year of an independent South Sudan nears its end, the prospects for peace and diplomacy between the new country and its northern neighbour seem to be increasingly bleak. On July 9th of last year [[1]], South Sudan seceded from the government in Khartoum and has since played […]