Preconceptions. Everyone has them and as often as not, they are as useless as they are useful. Personally I’ve always had something of a love/hate relationship with them due to growing up as a punk/goth and being on the wrong end of everyone elses. People would take one look at me, see my appearance, and [...]

I’m English. I think it’s probably true that we have some kind of obsession with ‘the war’ (it’s probably the only time we ever won anything apart from the world cup in ’66!) even though the view of it is somewhat rose-tinted. Both my mother and father were old enough to remember it and I [...]