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'Accidence Will Happen' - A Brilliant New Grammar Book for Anyone Who Loves...
There are many difficult people to argue with - but the most difficult by far are the grammar sticklers, the people who correct you over split infinitives, or your use of the word "irregardless". It's...
View ArticleFify Shades of Franchise
What's the [ahem] way in, to a piece about the phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey? Rewind back to 2012 and I recall the tube littered with eyes down women all rightfully proud and out that their...
View ArticleAlan Turing Was Posthumously Pardoned - But There Are Thousands of Casualties...
Alan Turing is a name known to computer scientists, to those familiar with the history of WWII, and to LGBT historians. His efforts at the top-secret labs at Bletchley Park in Britain during World War...
View Article'Fifty Shades of Grey' Tells Us Nothing About BDSM
Let's be blunt. E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey won't be the first piece of mind-numbingly awful literature that's had the world's housewives writhing in their seats. Hell, Mills and Boon have built an...
View ArticleEastEnders' Lucy Beale Storyline Is a Reminder of How Fantastic Soaps Can Be
When I think back to the TV I watched as a child, I remember Michelle Ryan bellowing down the street at Jessie Wallace, my parents attempting to explain who Dirty Den was and the guy from Spandau...
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EastEnders Knees-Up in America's South
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - Getting a jump on EastEnders' 30th anniversary this Thursday night, several dozen Yanks here reveled on all things Walford the afternoon of 14 February in this American...
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Gig Review: Brandi Carlile at the Union Chapel, February 2015
Armed with guitar, her incredibly powerful voice and some impressive boot stompin', Brandi Carlile is ready to conquer Europe. Having put aside the misadventures caused by the erupting Icelandic...
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New John Singer Sargent Exhibition at National Portrait Gallery
John Singer Sargent was considered to be one of the finest portrait painters of his generations, yet often his work was commissioned and therefore chained to the requirements of the sitter. This...
View ArticleHow Track and Field Could Strike Gold When Album Charts Include Streaming
There is a revolution heading towards the Official Album Charts this Spring and it could be just the opening a lot of up and coming bands are looking towards to break through in to the national...
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Fabolous Talks Fashion, Fads and Infamous Insta Photos
Fabolous, the Brooklyn born rap artist has built a name for himself over the years as the self styled prince of wordplay. Now following on from his addition onto the illustrious Roc Nation rosta and...
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Marley and Me: Review of Redemption Live - Bob's 70th Birthday Concert,...
Reggae is one of those genres which, for most music lovers, is almost impossible not to love, or at least like a lot. There's something irresistible - to these ears anyway - about those bouncing...
View ArticleBit of a Grey Area: My 'Fifty Shades'
I haven't read any of the Fifty Shades of Grey books. Not through any real avoidance, I just assumed it was something I'd eventually get round to, like learning how to make pastry and painting the...
View Article'The Romanians Are Coming': Gypsy Wrath or Gypsy Froth?
The election campaign may not officially start until March 30, but Ukip are definitely first off the blocks with a quite staggering party political broadcast. It doesn't feature their leader in person....
View ArticleYA Book Prize Fever- Interview with The Bookseller
Recently the YA blogosphere, Book-tubers and the section of Twitter especially reserved for that of YA book fanatics have been talking about one thing and one thing only: the YA Book Prize, a prize for...
View ArticlePancakes Are for Life, Not Just for Shrove Tuesday!
Dates in the national diary that focus unashamedly on food are brilliant, so every February we throw ourselves with great gusto into Pancake Day, the age-old Shrove Tuesday tradition of using up rich...
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10th Screen Nation Film and TV Awards 2015. ''We're Not 'Diversity', We're...
IDRIS ELBA AT THIS YEARS SCREEN NATION AWARDS 2015. PIC COURTESY- www.colorbox.co.uk. There's a lot of tabloid space given to London vs. New York this month. My personal feeling is that London reigns...
View ArticleThe Darker Side of Valentines
I have a passion for the plays of John Ford, a leading dramatist working in the reign of Charles I. And Valentine's Day, when we are surrounded by images of hearts inscribed with messages of undying...
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'No One Lives Here but Angels' - Halfway to the Summit of Kilimanjaro
Day 3, Shira Camp 1. 11,500 feet. I got out of the tent at 6.15 am to see the cloud had dropped away from the mountain revealing her in the stark, early morning light. Up until this point, because of...
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Font Makes the Headlines
Typefaces are everywhere; they're so deeply ingrained in all our lives that we barely take note of the endless fonts that surreptitiously set moods and make statements. We talked to typography artist...
View Article'Fifty Shades': A W**k Fantasy That Got a Bit Out of Hand
Watching this film as a professional dominatrix, I was highly aware of the criticisms raised. Many people have found both the book and film of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey problematic. At the...
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