According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday 3rd September 2008 on BBC2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was…

A review of Russell Brand's My Booky Wook.

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…