“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.” -Napoleon Bonaparte I've just received a letter from my old university asking me if I'd like join many other graduates by donating money to help more students get through their degrees. “For one nursing student, this cash injection has put a roof over her head,” it says. Over the years, I've become more and more bitter about my Higher Education experience. I'm aware that I'm quite privilaged to have bee...

Well, it's another day in Britain, and yet another child has been mauled to death by a dangerous dog. Jean-Paul Massey, a four-year old from Liverpool, was killed by a pit-bull terrier at his grandmother's home. As the family mourns, pit-bull owners and breeders around the world prepare their defences in supporting the use of these supposedly-domesticated animals as pets. Once again, people seem to be lacking the required level of common sense to understand the simple problem we are facing. N...

“The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.”     -Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) Wall Street So… it has been revealed by The Daily Telegraph that our MPs claimed every penny they could...

So… it has been revealed by The Daily Telegraph that our MPs claimed every penny they could on their expenses- down to paperclips and a one-pence phone bill. Oh, we’re all so angry. Am I? Yes, of course I am. As a struggling administrator with learning difficulties, who’s just had his Working Tax Credits inexplicably revoked, I am more than disgusted at the government’s collective behaviour. But then, I always have been. It occurs to me, however, that the behaviour d...

Back to the Future Part 2 “There’s something very familiar about all this,” says an aging Biff (a prosthetic- enhanced Thomas F. Wilson), watching his Grandson and his friends fall foul of the efforts of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox). The audience may feel a similar sense of deja vu as the script of the original film is re-hashed and thrown into an uninspired vision of the year 2015. This time it’s not Marty’s father but his son- a certified future-wimp- that need...

Back to the Future Part 2 “There’s something very familiar about all this,” says an aging Biff (a prosthetic- enhanced Thomas F. Wilson), watching his Grandson and his friends fall foul of the efforts of Marty McFly (Michael J. fox). The audience may feel a similar sense of deja vu as the script of the original film is re-hashed and thrown into an uninspired vision of the year 2015. Writers Zemeckis and Gale recycle plot, jokes and actors (Fox plays three characters, none wi...

Back to the Future Part 2 “There’s something very familiar about all this,” says an aging Biff (a prosthetic- enhanced Thomas F. Wilson), watching his Grandson and his friends fall foul of the efforts of Marty McFly (Michael J. fox). The audience may feel a similar sense of deja vu as the script of the original film is re-hashed and thrown into an uninspired vision of the year 2015. Writers Zemeckis and Gale recycle plot, jokes and actors (Fox plays three characters, none wi...

Back to the Future Part 2 “There’s something very familiar about all this,” says an aging Biff (a prosthetic- enhanced Thomas F. Wilson), watching his Grandson and his friends fall foul of the efforts of Marty McFly (Michael J. fox). The audience may feel a similar sense of deja vu as the script of the original film is re-hashed and thrown into an uninspired vision of the year 2015. Writers Zemeckis and Gale recycle plot, jokes and actors (Fox plays three characters, none wi...