So I was having a conversation with a guy at the bar last night. If I’m honest I had quite a lot to drink at this point but then British history is built upon alcohol and other questionable substances. The guy I spoke to, called Alec, is taking an illustration degree and decided to focus on political comics for his assignment. Unfortunately the only two political structures he was familiar with... 

The news has recently been inundated with reports from the new social networking website on the block, Twitter. George Orwell spoke of how it is always better to write a simple sentence in the media. Perhaps this is why Twitter has taken off so well with the public?   Twitter is quite simply a ludicrously easy social networking device to use. Due to this simplicity the scale of use for this social... 

With all my controversial articles I issue a sort of disclaimer at the beginning. This usually begins with a submission to experience and perhaps necessary knowledge. In this case though I can introduce this article as a member of generation Y, along with a deep passion caused by an inadvertently misspent childhood. As this is an introductory blog post I’ll provide some geeky details about myself.... 

Last Tuesday I was asked by my course leader at the University of Gloucestershire to show new students around the campus. The students had arrived to be interviewed for the PR course and it occurred to me that exactly this time last year I was having my interview for the very same course. Five we meant to have come but only four turned up. Unfortunately we had a heavy snow storm during the night and...