– Masterchef and Winston Churchill’s admirers –

This year's Masterchef has come to an end and Kenny Tutt, an unassuming bank manager, has won after a fairly underwhelming cook off that saw mistakes and misjudgements from fellow finalists, Nawamin and David.  Kenny's win ultimately came as no surprise. The competition this year was of an incredibly high standard throughout. All the finalists …

– UFOs, World War Three, and the impending apocalypse –

  UFOs have been spotted hovering over earth by the International Space Station. They've also been seen by US fighter pilots, flitting across the sky at impossible speeds. Google earth has revealed a Nazi base and crashed alien space ships on the Antarctic. Planet X has entered our solar system and will soon destroy all …

– On Crime Shows and Ideal Victims –

  Scenes involving murdered women are all too familiar for those who watch crime dramas. Be it The Fall, in which young career-driven women are sexually assaulted and murdered by Jamie Dornan's character, or the 'Scandi-Noir' giants The Killing and The Bridge, in which the primary victims are brutally murdered women, TV crime writers seem …

– On Trump, Reagan, and the pride of American steel –

Trump has a thing about steel. Steel and 'clean coal, really clean coal' were a focus of his election campaign and, now he's in the White House, they've each become pillars of his economic and energy policy respectively. In a time when modern economies are moving away from such industry and towards digital technologies and …

– Are tech giants becoming ‘too big to fail’? –

When people speak of companies that are ‘too big to fail’, they are almost exclusively referring to banks. Banks that are considered 'too big to fail' are usually seen as so large and structurally important that their collapse would have far-reaching consequences for the economy, and so should receive government support if facing failure; or, …

– Trump’s Border Wall and the Ghost of the American Frontier –

As the nineteenth century came to an end, US Americans were confronted by the reality of a closing frontier. What had been the defining reality of physical nation-building for US Americans up to that point - the push westwards, at the cost of Spain, Mexico, and, most importantly, countless Native American societies - was slowing …

– The Right to Buy Arms: American consumers and gun culture –

  ‘The right to buy weapons is the right to be free’ - The Weapon Shops of Isher, A. E. van Vogt   The Second Amendment is a point of constant contention in the contemporary politics of the USA. The amendment, and the liberties it is seen to confer, have created some of the most vehement …

– On the trials of online reporting –

  Falling print revenues, the difficulties of digital, and the whims of Facebook are changing news reporting irreversibly. New year, new Guardian. Eager not to be left out of the spirit of rejuvenation that comes with January, the paper has turned over a new leaf by completely overhauling its appearance. This means forgoing the broadsheet …