A muscle-bound thug serving 11 years for a savage machete attack has had his Facebook page removed - for posting SELFIES from his cell. Bragging Martin Grant, 27, was jailed in May after nearly severing a man's hand in a drugs row. He smuggled a phone into his cell and...
Festivals follow many formats. The large outdoor type is arguably the most familiar, covering meadows, farms and abandoned complexes outside of the smog and strains of the city. There are the micro events that shrink into one building or room for a day or less, often referred to as one...
By Benjamin Jenkins At the Labour Party Conference this week John McDonnell is keen to demonstrate Labour’s economic credibility and the alternatives the opposition would offer in power. The big headlines so far have been about his vow to renationalise rail, water, Royal Mail and energy industries with "market value...
A story of resilience and hope…Liz’s story It was a vicious crime, attracting international condemnation and media outrage across the world. One night in 2013, a 16-year-old girl was gang raped as she returned home from her grandfather’s funeral in Western Kenya. After being brutally assaulted and beaten by six...
By Katherine Dart, Master of Wine and Buyer at Berry Bros. & Rudd Unbeknown to many, the UK wine industry makes a significant contribution to the UK economy, generating £9.1bn in total contribution to the public purse, employing 170,000 directly and a further 100,000 in the supply chain. And this isn’t...
By Michael McNulty The steady plucking of an electric guitar explodes into the title theme, “Django, have you always been alone,” croons Luis Bacalov as a man in a heavy coat and black Stetson walks away from the screen dragging a heavy, muddied coffin along the ground and so opens...
By James Mackney Guillermo del Toro is a creative and visionary director that is known for making emotional and character driven films. He is able to create worlds of daring depth and draw the audience in with fiendish plots. Del Toro made his name by making emotional horror films and...
This World Mental Health Day, Spurgeons Children’s Charity is calling on commissioners in England and Wales to look at alternative solutions to the adolescent mental health crisis in this budget-cut environment. Charity CEO Ross Hendry looks at a new family-based solution being piloted in Birmingham. The facts are harrowing. In...
By Michael McNulty There is little doubt that Maysaloun Hamoud’s film, In Between, is an important and ambitious debut feature. A feminist film, centring on a trio of Palestinian-Israeli women as they struggle to find a balance between the liberal lives they aspire to and the traditional culture that surrounds...