In ancient Rome, a few times each year, the populace would troop down to the amphitheatre to take their seats and cheer as a series of animals and people were torn apart for their entertainment. In the modern era, the equivalent happens with more regularity, and slightly less gore. Yesterday, the chosen victim for the […]
The Metropolitan Police is facing ‘an assessment over its contact with Caroline Flack’, the 40-year-old former presenter of reality TV programme Love Island, prior to her taking her own life last Saturday; the tragedy happened shortly after learning that she would ‘face trial for an alleged assault’ on her boyfriend Lewis Burton, even although Mr […]
In our hyper-stimulated world, where all sorts of products and people are vying for our attention, we would surely be better off without this toxic relationship.
There was a very upsetting video doing the rounds on the internet a couple of weeks ago. A mother stork, in her nest, with her three young. Calmly, she picks up the smallest and weakest of her chicks and throws it out of the nest to its death, immune and, seemingly, uncaring to its desperate […]