From time to time, we all have trouble motivating ourselves at work. Whether it be because of a particularly mind numbing task or project, a difficult period in our personal lives or even a lament for the job itself, occasionally, it can be tough to get going! Mike Judge’s hit […]

Pegasus is an American urban street artist based in London. His stencilled pieces display an ironic and sometimes controversial portrayal of popular culture’s most recognizable icons. He has worked in the north, south and east London areas, most notably in Islington, Camden, Hackney, Shoreditch and Lambeth. He paints unauthorised art […]

This week sees the second instalment of the Hunger Games trilogy reach our screens in suitably magnificent style. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, Catching Fire begins with the aftermath of Peeta and Katniss’s victory in the 74th Hunger Games with the dawning realisation that the manner of […]

We’re all used to Hollywood’s wildly varying predictions of the nature of fire and brimstone apocalypse may rain down on humanity. Of these, Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1998 blockbuster Armageddon starring Bruce Willis is perhaps the most instantly recognisable. The plotline, for the uninitiated, revolves around a team of […]

The popular adage goes that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. As I sat there being offered a position that entrusted me with the education of adults and children a lingering feeling struck me that Lucifer didn’t roam alone in the act […]

“The arts are an even better barometer for what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress…” Henrik Wilem Von Loon I was speaking with an acquaintance of mine a few days ago (I was also wracked with nerves as I was about to […]

There may just be hope for the rest of us. If the co-founders of the English Defence League can take the brave leap of working with Quilliam, an Islamic think tank set up to combat radical Islamism, then there cannot be any excuse for every community, faith-based or otherwise, not […]

Noel Terry October 15, 2013 President Obama’s historic appointment of the first female, Janet Yellen, to head the US Federal Reserve from January should come as no surprise. Nor should it come as a surprise that Obama’s poster-boy, Larry Summers, withdrew his candidacy a while back amid protests of his […]