In January 2013 journalist Peter Oborne wrote an article in The Daily Telegraph about cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins. In it he claimed that “the passing of the inspirational amateur leaves us all the poorer”.

What a difference a night makes… Tuesday night ‘partying’ to ‘change the world’ with Bill Clinton. Wednesday night at Warwick University debating with the people who are actually going to do it. 

The Four Horsemen film opened in Belgium last week, but the premiere didn't take place at the sold out multiplex – it was held four hours prior to that screening at Leuven high security prison.

In another desperate effort to prop up the British Ponzi housing market David Cameron is offering council tenants £75,000 to help buy their own homes. 

With right wing jingoism, heroic acts and a whiff of British nostalgia who needs strategy? 

The producer predator divide has always split capitalism. As it pushes society to its logical conclusion populist politicians are trying to cash in – can they really address the root problem? 

The English riots are the physical manifestation of a culture that runs throughout British public institutions. 

Picture the scene – July 2011 a marketing get together in London. 

When we look at the News International, Metropolitan Police and British Political debacle we begin to get the scale of the rot at the core of the Western democratic process.