Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
… we haven’t had a good drug panic for a few years*, so it was obviously slightly overdue. Hearing the calls for …
So it appears that the Tories might be about to blow the immigration dog-whistle again. If true, an article I read today …
A guest post – Using Slang in a Second Language – from writer and master of all trades, Eb Ward, currently located …
If any budding dramatists are reading this and would like to see in action an expert blending of political, social and personal …
It has almost become a new blood sport to bait the BBC for its perceived failings. Left and right, Christian and atheist, …
The road to Japan starts here. How to move to Japan? You just go. A long time in the dreaming, now the …
This morning, after a most enjoyable Full English (exquisite black pudding, sorry veggies), I left the Aged Relatives at the station and …
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that police acted in self-defence in Genoa but the family of killed protestor Carlo …
US Forces in war zones are not going to be banned from smoking, as the Pentagon is worried that to do so …
To Manchester! The city sweltered in the unaccustomed sunshine, as I journeyed up from London for Kraftwerk at Manchester International Festival, which opened in …
