Twitter and road rage
Imagine your life reduced to 140 characters; trying to articulate the sum total of your being in a few pithy,
Britain and its wet dreams
Dreams matter. Freud said that they express the fulfilment of a wish. But outside any clinical or professional psychological analysis,
Gaslight: the light of the mind
Like many of the pies in which David O. Selznick had his fat little fingers, George Cukor’s 1944 Gaslight has
Richard Curtis: the Great British Myth Maker
A Richard Curtis film set in Middlesbrough is a cinematic oxymoron. Even Milton Keynes seems unlikely. Mainly because foppish glamour,
Port: a guide for furtive alcoholics
Occasionally people like to debate life’s great inventions. There are some things that make it into this debate easily: penicillin,
Before the alien comes out of the mountain
It’s 2012. A new year. A chance to start anew. There is still plenty of time to get things done,
Thoughts from a working boy 