War is by any measure one of the most evil and nightmarish of things that humanity has ever inflicted on itself. For most of us, those fortunate enough to have been spared the bloody pointlessness of armed conflict, it is a universally acknowledged truth and nothing more; it is only Continue Reading
Book review: The Last by Hanna Jameson
Where would you want to be at end of the world? With your loved ones or good friends? Favourite bar? The restaurant that serves your steaks just so? Most people, understandably would choose the first option if for no other reason than when everything is at its apocalyptically worst, you Continue Reading
Living big in a tiny house: One couple turns a WW2 rail car into a cosy magical home
In an age where houses seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and the blocks on which they sit, like an adult trying to squeeze onto a kindergartner’s seat, smaller and smaller, it’s refreshing to see a host of varied people bucking the trend. This can be for a variety Continue Reading
Comics review: Blackbird
What do you do if your life, both the one you’ve actually lived and the one you have always imagined yourself living turn out to be fabrications of the real thing? And how should you react when everything you have always thought was true, turns out to be exactly that Continue Reading
Classic book review: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The more things, the more they stay the same. This oft-repeated and frankly rather over-used phrase, which simultaneously sounds both very wise and extraordinarily obvious, is proof positive that humanity has a predilection for repeating its errant behaviour over and over again, no matter how disastrous or comically awful the Continue Reading