The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually in the media: but Sinead O’Connor is or was absolutely the real
The Foo Fighters are back with a shiny new album and with mega stadium tours to come. Dave Grohl, utterly adored by
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and rated by BBC’s Newsnight as the best album of all time, the
A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, has said she is
I recently posted at great length about the origins of Wahhabism (and Zionism) and its influence on today’s bleak and bloody Middle
It is a fascinating, though rather grim, story, spanning the First World War, the creation of the states of Israel, Iraq, Syria
A brief moment to pay tribute to someone that people my age or younger might not even have heard of before; but
Much as I slated the Kurt Cobain statue in Aberdeen Washington earlier in the year, the news that a life-size statue of
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s Soundgarden: and there’s Superunknown. It’s a testament to how much great music
In Lauren Bacall we lose one of the very last surviving icons of a long-gone age in cinema, an era that many