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75Monsoon Travel in India
There’s something peculiarly unnerving about ‘Don’t Panic!’ signs. ‘Don’t Panic!’ signs accompanied by strangers in surgical masks with clipboards and thermometers are especially uncomforting. After a twelve-hour flight, when you...
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58Unreported World: The Horror of the World on a Friday Night
Remember when Friday nights used to be fun? I do. Sprucing up for a night out; spraying on aftershave with a noxious liberality; irritating the neighbours with loud music in preparation for the audio excess of a night club. Yeah – Friday was...
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58The Triumph of Unreason: The Sacking of Professor David Nutt by Home Secretary Alan Johnson
An age-old battle rumbles on. In one corner, we find those features which our modern society supposedly exalts – science, reason, and free speech. In the other corner, we find the familiar enemies of those...
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57The Shame of X Factor: 'Jedward's' Brush With Failure
Gasp! Could it be true? Did the dream nearly end? Were we truly on the verge of something so terrible? Was it that close? Did John and Edward really end up in the bottom two of X Factor tonight, after so many...
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54Democratic Destruction in Afghanistan's Elections
The Afghan presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, has recently announced his decision to pull out of the second round of Afghanistan’s presidential elections. The first round of the elections was dogged...
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54Yet Another Blog By Yet Another Blogger...
Oh God – another blog. And for what? For nothing, really: probably nobody will every even read this, which gives the entire thing an insane speaking-to-one’s-self feel. Sartre once said (yeah I’m...
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65Damien Hirst's new Exhibition at the Wallace Collection
What does a skull mean to you? Is it a) Death, b) Death, or c) The death of Damien Hirst’s reputation? If you answered ‘c’ to the question above then you are mistaken: Hirst will undoubtedly prevail. But...
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46Stephen Gately: The Weirdness of Celebrity Death
Everyday for the last ten years or so, there has been a part of my brain which has rested assured of Stephen Gately’s continued existence. Every morning I have woken up, and a subconscious part of me has...
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63A Disappointing Recession
One of many piles of uncollected rubbish which plagued Britain during the refuse strikes of the 1970s Frankly I’m disappointed with this recession. When it hit I was still cosy in my student bubble,...
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71How to Write for The Daily Mail
The first thing you need to ask yourself before writing an article for the Daily Mail is this: are you indignant? If you are not indignant, then you are in no state of mind to start writing for the Daily Mail. But don’t worry – there is an easy...
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