So today I headed down to Westminster's Policy Exchange to see Sir Terry Leahy. Promoting his book Management in Ten Words, the discussion with Tesco's former CEO was chaired by The Times' Daniel Finkelstein. A reporter usually incisive with his analysis, I was hoping for a...

After the First and Second World Wars, over sixty thousand military amputees came home.

Three years later, Britain hosted the Olympics, and a small hospital in Buckinghamshire put on the world's first 'Wheelchair Games'.

Now in 2012, the future of the British forces in Afghanistan is being decided.

And London...

Good old facebook. Keeps us in touch. Shows us what all are friends are up to. Keeps adding features to show how connected we all are. Keeps revealing by using those same features that actually quite a lot of us would rather be left alone. Oh...

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As part of a University project, I've been looking at homosexuality and its relationship to hip hop. In it, we've regularly said that LGBTQ artists have a far greater representation in other genres of music; freely citing the likes of Freddie Mercury, Elton John and George Michael. But...

There's a chance the name 'Wiley' might not mean anything to you. Or, it rings a faint bell, and there you are remembering Wearing My Rolex. "Not a bad tune that", you think. But otherwise, the stage name of Richard Kylea Cowie might have passed you by.

Which, of...

LMFAO has to be one of the worst band names that has graced the world of music. Apart from maybe Staind. Or Bananarama. Theory of a Dead Man's pretty terrible too. Ok, there's quite a lot of contenders. But the point remains, on first hearing of the band LMFAO, I...

Paul Simon's Short Little Span of Attention

For a while now I've heard Paul Simon's song "You Can Call Me Al" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA as slightly more than a eulogy to the mid-life crisis. And it's not just me. Right from its opening line the jovial tune and cheerful delivery...