We all love and want to travel, but not many of us like the draining process of getting to our chosen destination. Spending half the day in the air with more than 300 passengers isn’t ideal, especially associated with the fact that it can be bumpy and flat-out tiresome. Everyone’s […]

It’s been twenty eight days since Malaysian flight 370 went missing and the story has, understandably, dominated the headlines. But in a very writerly sense I decided to take a step back and think about why it is these stories capture our attention in such a phenomenal way.  Of course […]

The recent touchdown in the People’s Republic of China of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft signals a turning point in the way we perceive space travel. Could the first human being to walk on the moon in almost half a century be a communist? After a thirteen-day flight by astronauts Jing […]