It’s amazing how quickly the whole European continent can shut down simply by mixing water with very, very cold temperatures. Unless you’ve been hibernating for the last two months, you may have noticed the snowpocalypse occurring across our green and pleasant lands. Up and down the country snow has been falling at an alarming rate, [...]

The Arab Emirate of Dubai seems to enjoy the limelight, when they’re not causing international consternation and causing financial ripples across the world, they’re often building things – giant mahoosive, unrivalled and unprecedented things. As incredibly rich Emirates go, Dubai is not exactly the richest oil-blessed nation in the Arabian Peninsula; so instead of relying [...]

With the hassle of the festive season just about to kick off, I thought I’d take a few minutes to bypass the horrors of Christmas and family gatherings, to concentrate on 2010 and all the joys that it will hopefully bring.
2009 hasn’t exactly been the easiest of years; in fact for a lot of [...]

Today more intrigue and rumour abound about an apparent split within the cabinet between the Chancellor, Alistair Darling and the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Most major news networks are reporting that the PM may have overruled the Treasury department which had wanted to make much deeper cuts and savings, however this has subsequently been strenuously [...]