Poem iSo many men fighting for justice So many women, Fighting for peace Have I imagined them all along? Look at these women, Demanding...
Napoleon's New RepWho would have thought it, one day, I would come to see Napoleon and his legacy with disdain! It feels as though it was only yesterday I...
Is War Finally Loosing Out to Peace?Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity is convincing me that it is. Not yet half-way...
The Human BillboardAs you take your seat on the tube for your morning commute, you find yourself distracted by a flashing light. Glancing up from your...
On GreatnessWhat is 'greatness'? A quality, surely. Is it something we are born with or without, something we inherit, is it something that can be...
TED's TimidityA year on, and it’s still as embarrassing as ever. TED sponsored a TEDx talk in Whitechapel, London, in Jan 2013, with the theme...
Russell Brand & the Swiss ReferendumI wrote a post about Russell Brand’s second Paxman interview a few weeks ago, and made the elementary bloggers mistake of not reading...
The Twit ReviewEach and every film poster you see nowadays will invariably quote the words "brilliant", "wonderful" and "amazing", above or under a row...
Russell Brand's RevolutionThe celebrity has once again grabbed the headlines by virtue of guest-editing this week’s New Statesman, with Revolution at the heart of...
Time On Our SideThis title appears a little optimistic. In fact, it could do with an interrogation mark; that would make a little more sense. For...
