Britain’s Lewis Hamilton ended his fourteen year association with the Mclaren Formula One team today as he announced a new deal to drive for the Mercedes team next season. The 2008 World Champion faces six more races with the Woking-based squad before he turns his back on them and joins […]

Sebastian shines the brightest Sebastian Vettel claimed his second win of the Formula One season yesterday after a thrilling Singapore Grand Prix that saw Fernando Alonso maintain his championship lead. The reigning World Champion was running a close second to Britain’s Lewis Hamilton when the unfortunate Mclaren driver suffered a […]

Steven Spielberg, director/producer of many classics including four of five Indiana Jones movies, Saving Private Ryan, and Schindler’s List, creates another withWar Horse. The story of Joey, a one of a kind horse that starts life separated from his mother, begins as he is noticed by young Albert Narracott, mesmerised by Joey’s beauty and innocence. Owners are soon […]

To Hunter Stockton Thompson, born on July 18th 1937. Happy B-day, Doc!   SIR LARRY THE GEAR – THE OFF-LICENSE FIXER An empirical study of the wild variations in meaning of the word “gear”   “Take me down little Susie, take me down I know you think you’re the Queen […]

Some say that all you need to become a great writer is a healthy imagination and a way with words. I believe this idea to be both true and false, in equal measures. I don’t dispute that imagination is needed; if writers such as C.S. Lewis, Douglas Adams and J.K. […]

You know, England weren’t actually THAT bad in the Euros. It’s no disgrace to go out in the quarters on penalties (again) against Italy. No disgrace at all. Not that Italy are that much better than England, they’re not – aside from Pirlo, de Rossi and possibly Balotelli, who gets […]

He who would fear thorns should not attempt to gather flowers. And yet from all the jeers that barraged the struts of the newly completed stadia, you might be forgiven for doubting our resolve to host the greatest show on Earth. There were always going to be prickly obstacles in […]

The last two weeks have provided irrefutable proof that the Olympic spirit is more than an idea – and it may just turn out to be the shot in the arm so badly needed by debt-ridden Britain. After more than a decade of planning, preparation and nervous tension, London 2012 […]