Cormac McCarthy is known for three things above all others: Choppy, simple sentences punctuated with the occasional flowing, complex sentence about war and its relationship with the human soul. Characters that straddle the line between ultrarealistic and horrifying, His obsession with the American West and how it relates to man’s […]

It is not uncommon to be in an audience, waiting in rapt attention for the start of a theatre performance, hoping to be taken into a new world for a few hours. What is less common is to be backstage, waiting for your cue to brush aside the curtains and […]

It’s another world wide fad that hit our marketing system back last year , taking the world by storm as another novelty app for our iPhones and smartphones. Developed by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, who at the time of development were Stanford University students, Snapchat has managed to make […]

Slavery was one of world’s biggest shames. Something that is rarely discussed anymore because we hold it as a thing of the past; but is it really a thing of the past? How free are we actually today? Who can honestly say “I am a free man” without stopping for […]

The weightiest of the arguments against God’s existence is the problem of evil. There are many different responses to the problem of evil. None of them is entirely satisfactory alone but together they do cast doubt on whether the existence of evil disproves the claim that God exists. In brief, […]

It seems so long ago now, but back in 2011, who would have thought that George R.R. Martin’s A Game Of Thrones, commonly known as A Song of Ice and Fire,  would completely take the world by storm? With season four  finished there is no denying that the series is undoubtedly […]

Jesus Christ is looking down upon the scene with that sanguine, reassuring look so many brushes have etched onto his remarkably white face. A black spider is slowly creeping its way up the side of a plywood wall but stops short of scurrying over the poster of our Lord. My […]

This year I achieved something quite special, I completed my first marathon. I ran in the Edinburgh Marathon on May 25 in aid of Alzheimer Scotland, an extremely meaningful cause   to myself and my family because we lost both my Great Granddad, Sammy Irvine and my Granddad Michael Boyle to […]