On Thursday the 12th of June, three Israeli teenagers went missing outside an illegal settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since then, the Israeli and US government have suspected and blamed the Palestinian Islamist party, Hamas, of the incident and it is now widely believed that they have been kidnapped. […]

When it comes to the Middle East and the relations between the countries within, everyone who even watches the news briefly knows that there exists a country called Israel, and another called Iran and that they are both rivals. If Israel and Iran were personified, they would be Batman and […]

Highly acclaimed war novels would include War and Peace constructed by the brilliant Leo Tolstoy and All Quiet on the Western Front  by Erich Maria Remarque, however I’m firmly petitioning for the added addition of the The Book Thief by Markus Zusak to this invisible cannon. The novel is narrated by Death, a small-what cheerful, […]

Needless to say, spoiler alert ahead for all those who have yet to see the film. Since seeing the first of the trailers for Maleficent a few months ago, I’ve been beyond excited to see the film. Strange, considering the fact that I found the original Sleeping Beauty film to […]

Every so often a new report is published describing how the gender pay gap still exists and how it’s not really getting any smaller. A recent study from the CMI estimates that at the current rate, it will take 75 years for the gap to disappear completely. This seems an […]

When you look back at it, Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla was actually pretty bad. There was no discernible plot and it was content to just be a hollow-point action creature-feature. Luckily, Gareth Edwards has done well to make sure the western reboot of the series has matured in the last 16 […]

TIME’s 100 Most Influential People is not a poll by a random pop culture website to see which TV show has the biggest following. It’s not trying to find out which film couple is the most popular, which book character is the most liked, or which plot has been the […]

The issue of energy security once again became one of the most discussed subjects after the statement made by Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council. At the end of a two-day summit held in Brussels on March 20-21, he said that the European Union (EU) plans to […]