This article is to be one of three, beginning with an introduction, the second, a concentration on the prominent movers and shakers, and third, some of the artistic works produced during this amazing era from furniture to jewellery and metalwork. How did it come about and who spearheaded this extraordinary […]

With little over a week until the start of the 2012 European Championships, the nation should be gripped with football fever. We should be placing the flags of St George strategically and carefully on our cars and bikes, our lucky red replica 1966 shirt should be being dug out again from the very […]

Unfortunate though it may be, it is a fact universally acknowledged that in the modern day, consumer based society; our reflection can be seen clearest through advertising. Though I feel that I would be unable to outdo any previous criticisms lamenting on the toxicity of this institution, run by power […]

EastEnders is one of Britain’s longest running television soap operas set in the grey streets of Albert Square in Walford of East London. It is aired four times a week on BBC One – the UK’s most-watched channel. Creators Tony Holland and Julia Smith use regular everyday people we so […]

What can I say about Ralph Fiennes that hasn’t already been said? Some time ago now, I guess it must have been mid November I found myself sitting more or less front row (alright it was front row) admiring a scruffily dressed and bearded Ralph Fiennes.  The occasion was one […]

The next few weeks are going to be hard for me. Yes, I have University exams, and they’re bad enough, and no, I don’t cope well with hot weather, but there’s something much worse bothering me. Can you guess what it is? Jubilee fever. As a Welsh nationalist and a […]

If I could give any traveller one piece of advice it would be this – give all the obvious destinations a break, Europe has much more than Paris, London or Milan to offer. Having exhausted Paris, I felt it due to spread my wings and find a new corner of […]

Mark Webber took his second victory around the streets of Monte Carlo yesterday after a four-way fight for victory resulted in the closest ever finish to a Monaco GP. With the top four cars separated by just two seconds at the chequered flag, Webber became the sixth different winner of a […]