Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

One thing which is noticeable when talking to the 6-year old who lives in my house, is how his school demonises 'teenagers'. His sch...

I have noted on this blog over the past couple of years how we have seen a tendency by many pop artists to go back to 1960s influences for t...

As I have commented before, I have thought that John Prescott received an unfair condemnation as a politician. I do not think he is the best...

Despite growing up in a mildly Christian country (the UK) where people tend to take on the trappings of religion and increasingly use it as ...

I am already hearing strange things coming from the USA in the wake of Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election. The odd rumo...

This section looks at some of the policies which were adopted following the Great Unrest including extensive plans to defend London from rio...

The most extreme events of the Great Unrest occurred in Liverpool which suffered a local general strike. As a result there was rioting, incl...