Why Uzbekistan Could Be The World's Next Trouble Spot
Such concerns are understandable because the world could certainly do without another source of violent instability in a sensitive region (in this case, between China and Russia and north of...
View ArticleMasters Of Vertigo: Watch This Incredible 360° Video Of Severn Bridge Engineers
This is a sponsored post from The 7th Chamber As part of their 'Masters at Work. Masters of Workwear' campaign, Scruffs took a helicopter up to the Severn Bridge to celebrate the expertise and...
View ArticleWhen Tony Bennett Saved Rocky Marciano's Life
Tony Bennett: "Rocky Marciano was retired at the time - this must have been '64 or '65 so he'd been retired seven or eight years - and Rocky and I had been friends for a while and we were in a...
View ArticleHemingway: Unearthing The Man Behind The Myth
Whilst putting on the same clothes as yesterday, and the day before, I began considering my new alumni status. With three years inside the literary canon behind me, I began to dwell on who I have...
View ArticleA Good Month For Murder: The Inside Story Of A Homicide Squad
As Del explained to me, his first challenge was gaining the acceptance of the homicide squad’s detectives. “At first they were not super-excited to have me there – they don’t like outsiders much – but...
View ArticleSalvia: The Mind-Blowing Legal High That Sends You Loopy
Just when it seemed like the nanny state had ruined all our fun, someone is selling a mind-blowing plant extract on the high street. It sends you to hell and brings you back feeling like a war-torn...
View ArticleKeith Richards Interviewed About Sex
[img via] I met up with Keef in the bar at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in Soho. At six in the evening he’d already quaffed a few tumblers of his preferred beverage: vodka and cranberry juice. He greeted...
View Article12 Things Having A Puppy Has Taught Me
Last year I got a puppy called Clarence. He’s great and I love him more than I do most humans. Owning him has taught me many things, not least that puppies can take on the worst traits of their owners....
View ArticleIs This The End Of Peace And Democracy?
As the historian Mark Mazower soberly pointed out in the Financial Times recently, it is striking just how many of the conditions that paved the way for fascism (and, less directly, Stalinism) in the...
View ArticleA New Reality For Gaming
2017 will be the year virtual reality (VR) takes the world by storm. With headsets and goggles such as Oculus Rift and Google Daydream View now available to UK consumers, the technology will quickly...
View Article25 Years Of Reeves & Mortimer: More Than Just Comedy
My first experience of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer was in my first year of secondary school. I’d been away on a school trip to the south of France. When my mum and dad came to pick me up from the...
View ArticleWhy Donald Trump Clashing With His Own Institutions Will Have Major Consequences
One of the few things that can be said with certainty about Donald Trump is that there has never been an American President like him. With his narcissism, petulance and bluster, he outstrips even...
View ArticleA Tribute To Backstreet Snooker Halls
[img via] Stop your internal dialogue. I know it can get fucking boring on telly. But trust me, that’s a different game; a sanitised, squeaky-clean imitation of the very real thing. And snooker’s home...
View ArticlePresident Donald Trump: America Is Facing A Democratic Emergency
The scale of the early anti-Trump protests has been impressive. As have the efforts of a few officials to stand up to him, such as the Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, who was fired for upholding...
View ArticleRites Of Passage: Your First Trip To The Bookies
This moment came for me around eighteen years ago, when as a seventeen year lad, someone in the pub football team I was playing for at the time had been telling us all the reasons why Hibernian were...
View ArticleArtist Ashley Loxton Talks Chicken Boxes And Rave Flyers
We came across Ashley Loxton's paintings at a gallery exhibition in Margate. The sea was lashing in with the rain, doing nothing for the Kent coastal town's resurgence, the sky was the colour of...
View ArticleThe Impact Of Free Speech On Human Rights
Free speech is something that we often take for granted. It is also something that is widely debated and often controlled. There are many parts of the world where free speech isn’t even something that...
View ArticleDating And The Internet: The Perils And Perks
Online dating, though, has not always enjoyed a good reputation. There are things about it that some people just don’t like. However, for many, it has been the answer to prayers, allowing them to meet...
View ArticleWhy Abandoned Children Can Have Hope
The good news in this difficult area is that there are inspiring points of light worldwide, organizations and people who are working each and every day to ensure that no child has to be left on his or...
View ArticleA Look At Online Gambling In 2018
The gambling industry has continued to thrive in 2017, with a collective income of over £13.bn in the UK alone. However, with the availability and range of online gaming sites and casinos continuing to...
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