As UK theatres fret over how to respond to the increasing national and global crises that are hitting or emerging from our shores in wave after wave of tsunami like proportions: Brexit, Syria, the refugee crisis, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Belarus, the Greek meltdown, Egypt, Spain, the Occupy movement, Trump, Brexit, ...
Who would win in a second referendum? That has been the question on everyone's minds following the referendum in June and the barrage of revelations that followed it. All the indicators point to Remain, but I'm not convinced. Since the shell-shock referendum I've been mindful to remove myself from the ...
I don't know about you, but flat whites really get on my wick. It's not so much the concept that bothers me - it's just a cappuccino with less froth or a macchiato with more froth - but the precedent. You see, you seldom get served a flat white in ...
So today is the day Theresa May fritters our future away, the jesters will sing. What seemed like a triumphant independence day back in June has become a running joke ever since, and those who championed it are the ones left sporting cap n' bells carrying a mock sceptre. Onwards and ...
Militant Hinduism is on the rise in India with the RSS-BJP coalition demonstrating that the far right is growing worryingly active. Rooted in Hindutva - an ideology seeking to establish the hegemony of Hindus and the Hindu way of life - the ruling parties have been adopting economically disastrous policies ...
For most people living outside London taking the capital's average salary of £48,023 a year home would be an eye-watering sum, but the reality of the viscous lure put in front of aspirational workers is far from what it seems. With the cost of commuting into London at its highest ever level and ...
A TORY social club must pay out £35,000 after sexists allegedly branded women members a “witch” and a “cow” – and prevented them joining the committee. Three women were awarded damages after a landmark legal challenge against the Conservative club. They say one committee man told a fellow male member ...
Following the breakout of fake news, craftily edited viral vids and the various other bits of clickbait bollocks circulating social media the next big thing getting brainless users in a tizzy is the logical fallacy of reductio ad absurdum. Reductio ad absurdum, as the Big Bang's Sheldon Cooper so adequately describes, is ...
Dr Anastasia Filippidou, Lecturer, Centre for International Security and Resilience, Cranfield University Another tragic attack in a major city. The attack follows the familiar pattern of unsophisticated, high impact attacks, as we have seen in Nice, Berlin and Ohio State University. There is nothing new in this approach. From ancient ...