I stumbled upon a video on Youtube which gives you a virtual tour of the famous caves in France where the Lascaux Cave Paintings were discovered.  Anyone interested in history will be familiar with the images themselves, but seeing them in their context adds a whole new dimension.  In particular I had realised just how deep

I am shocked that anyone should find a story about pop stars using drugs shocking.  It turns out that the handsome and wholesome One Direction have been caught on film smoking marijuana.  Compared to the behaviour of rock stars in the seventies only smoking marijuana would probably have been enough to count as wholesome, or

Politics should be about principles and policy.  Inevitably it is also about personalities.  Ideally it shouldn’t be about propaganda.  If you believe in something you shouldn’t want to win a point by misleading someone. In the eighties and nineties the Liberal Democrats used to engage in what they called pavement politics.  This involved focusing their

Handel’s Theodora is a masterpiece that has to be seen. If you like good music, drama, history or a mix of all three you won’t be disappointed.

Around the world green politics is more closely aligned with the left than the right.  It has been said that greens are like tomatoes.  They start green but they always end up red.  Why is this?  There doesn’t seem to be any particularly strong reason why people who believe in the free market shouldn’t also

I finally gave in to biology and went to bed at 1.00am last night, after 2 hours of political coverage on the telly which did not mention the Green Party even once.  You wouldn’t know they even existed.  Meanwhile the effect of the large swing of votes to UKIP was looked at from every imaginable