It is a frequently told story on the African continent. Elderly man holds onto power for decades using rigged elections, military cooperation and violence against the opposition and his own people. Faced with the seemingly […]
Stephen Hawking died in the early hours of this morning at his home in Cambridge, aged 76. His work on what happens when stars collapse into themselves made him the most famous scientist in the […]
The Winter Olympics usually come second in popularity to the summer version of the competition. But this year has seen the games in the spotlight for very different reasons. After months of tension between the […]
Where does communism come from? The idea of equality and common ownership of property has always been around. There were communes in the English civil war and radical communities in Germany around about the same […]
‘We have known each other now for more than four years. Half of the time we have been together: the other half I have had to spend in prison as the result of our friendship. […]
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is; Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. WH Auden, ‘As I walked out one Evening’ As I was driving […]
I’m a sucker for the violin; always have been, always will be. I am listening to it now in fact: the John Williams soundtrack to Schindler’s List. It’s quite frankly one of the most moving […]
Graffiti, or street art, is something we have all seen-it can be found on almost every street, either small signatures on the back of a postbox or enormous designs on some long-abandoned wall. Seeing these […]
There are articles that take their time to write and there are those that just need to be done immediately, no matter how briefly researched or from the heart that turns out to be. Similarly, there are photographs and there are photographs.
I wrote this for my 4 year old son, Oscar, to take into school as he was doing a project on the Polar Regions and so I decided to explain to him the origins of the […]
