Hot, Ready and Legal? You Need to Cool Off
If years of hysterical media coverage have taught us anything, it's that lusting after children is wrong. Paedophilia - the great cause everyone can get behind and feel safe raising a flaming torch or...
View ArticleLet's Take Action Against Breast Cancer 365 Days a Year
Each October, we recognise Breast Cancer Awareness Month as an opportunity to join together in support of a cause that touches far too many lives around the world. Breast cancer is the most common...
View ArticlePower Of Reading
For some people reading is still a matter of life and death. Many Kurdish Peshmergas fighters struggling against ISIL are going to night school to learn how to read. In warfare knowing how to read is...
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Derby Feste 2015 - Arts Fun For All
I have a soft spot for Derby and have done ever since I visited the city for work, interviewing a local disabled photographer for a magazine. It is very disabled friendly and being a wheelchair user I...
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Winterfel-LA
Hello everyone! I'm sorry it's taken so long to write up this but it's been a pretty whirlwind 2 months! Not a day goes by where I don't think of your generosity in getting me to LA, so before I begin...
View ArticleEuropean Literature Days
The European Literature Days (ELiT) festival held in the Wachau region of Austria encourages cultural exchange between European based writers, translators, publishers and readers. This year the overall...
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'The Apprentice' Receptionist: Five Things She Is Really Doing on Excel
The Apprentice is back on our screens in its rightful place in the autumnal television run, which means it's also time for the return of , the enigmatic televisual treat that is: The Apprentice...
View ArticleStrictly Come Dancing - Halloween
It's the best night of the Strictly competition, and for all of you who play Strictly bingo, a slug of gin is compulsory every time: Len says "that was no trick, that was a TREAT!" (and variations...
View ArticleSpectre - A Review
For a spy in his mid forties it's apt that James Bond's latest adventure shows signs of middle aged - or mid film - spread. Spectre, as you know, is the longest 007 epic so far, and it shows with a...
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When Dad Becomes Your Best Mate
HuffPost UK is running a month-long focus around masculinity in the 21st Century, and the pressures men face around identity. To address some of the issues at hand, Building Modern Men presents a...
View ArticleHow an Unusual Christmas Present Saved My Life
I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 1999. If it hadn't been for an unusual Christmas present bought by my friend, the showbiz agent Peter Charlesworth, I might not have been diagnosed with bowel...
View ArticleEquality 4 Mental Health
Equality 4 Mental Health is a cross-party, cross-society campaign aimed at persuading the government to help reduce the suffering of those with mental ill health by increasing investment into the...
View ArticleCowell vs Lyon: Why There's Really No Comparison
They're both music moguls with the capacity to determine what we listen to, what we dance to and what we make out to. 'You're So Beautiful' is one thing, but have you ever gotten jiggy while Zig and...
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Why Daddy Pig Is a Role Model for Modern Day Dads
HuffPost UK is running a month-long focus around masculinity in the 21st Century, and the pressures men face around identity. To address some of the issues at hand, Building Modern Men presents a...
View ArticleThe Apprentice Series 11 Episode 5: My View As an Ex-Candidate
So the weeks of trying to learn everyone's names while it looks like there are dozens of them running about are behind us, 14 candidates remaining at start of this week. I was thinking we might get a...
View ArticleWhy the Suffragette Movie Has Succeeded
A recently published article in the Huffington Post states that the film Suffragette has failed in its attempt, or lack thereof, to progress the feminist movement, instead suggesting the battle has...
View ArticleThe Apprentice - Episode Five
Not being a fan of turning nouns into verbs, I winced on hearing Siralanlordsugar declare that the remaining chumps were to be "tasked" with demonstrating the essential business skill of writing a...
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Belarus Free Theatre: 10 Years of Theatre and Oppression
Art matters. And it's hard to think of a theatre company that has proved that more than Belarus Free Theatre (BFT). Now about to celebrate their tenth anniversary, BFT has persisted against the most...
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'Neighbours Inferno Week' - Review
'It's still on?!' That's usually the response I get when I tell people that I watch Neighbours and have done for pretty much my entire life. 'Is Harold still in it?", that's normally the next question....
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Film Reviews: Brooklyn - Burnt - He Named Me Malala - Kill Your Friends
'Brooklyn' can't fail to charm and Saoirse Ronan's terrific - Aptly titled 'Burnt' seems more akin to a bland Gordon Ramsey TV throwback - Davis Guggenheim's documentary looks beyond Malala the...
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