I get sick of listening to people – who really should know better – rattling on and adopting some of the media’s constant drip-drip of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-foreigner, or pro-UKIP, anti-European line and playing straight into the hands of the far right and even not so far right. It seems […]

The most ironic aspect of this whole endeavor I am  undertaking (that is, writing an article) is that I am really supposed to be studying for not one, but two exams, both of which are looming with the same eerily depressing allure of a storm cloud. The thing about storm clouds is that […]

Under the Dome is a TV Sci-Fi Drama, which can be watched on a Monday night at 10pm on Channel 5. Each episode brings new situations and challenges to be dealt with. Under the dome is based in a small town called Chester’s Mill. Its residents have suddenly become trapped […]

You may have heard recently that the pound is strengthening against the Euro and the US Dollar, but it’s still difficult to know when the best time is to buy your holiday currency. Leading travel money card provider, Ukash, is offering some tips to help student travellers deal with the […]

There is a moment in Season 2 of Hannibal which I feel perfectly sums up the show, in which while Mason Verger slices off portions off his own face and feeds it to Will Graham’s dogs, he informs Hannibal he is hungry, who remarks “eat your nose then,” Mason proceeds […]

News that the fabled Monty Python team were re-assembling for a final assault on our funny bones for one last hurrah sent me scurrying for my collection of old Python albums. Naturally, at two million quid per ticket (I’m exaggerating for comedic effect) I didn’t attend any of their performances, […]

A controversial topic, religion. But we aren’t exactly sure why. We are just expressing our opinion, we do the same when we dislike a book or a film. We do that without thinking twice. But a religion, no. When one is talking of religion, one is stepping on very thin […]

There is a scene towards the end of this film, in which Lucy tenderly holds her finger out to mankind’s earliest ancestor. In this moment we are expected to feel the connection between the humans of today and the prehistoric creatures that ultimately formed and created us. Honestly, I half […]