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I suppose first and foremost I'd just want to be really good at something, for which my celebrity would be a bi-product. I'd rather be very talented/accomplished and a little bit famous (eg. Sam Harris, Maynard James Keenan) than super famous despite being shit (Kanye West, Kim Kardashian...

Well I can't name names of individuals because I don't work for the Inland Revenue! But as blueinsa said, the government has themselves admitted that unpaid tax runs into the billions (which they are most likely rounding down), and not all of it is from corporations either (who are easier to...

That implies though that 'society' has handed them a decent living, which isn't necessarily the case (in fact, it's rarely the case at all). What if they just knuckled down in school and got better grades? Or what if they just work that little bit harder than us? I don't earn a lot because I'm...

On the day of the game I was meant to be playing a youth game in the morning, but it got delayed due to a cock-up with the pitch. By the time it got started it was about 30/45 mins before the City game kicked-off. My dad and brother had come to watch and we'd planned to shoot off over to my...

OK, you're gonna have to tell us why, now (plus any other essential do's and don't's). because nobody has yet warned me about these orange buttons.

I'm going there next week. Staying at somewhere called Hotel Monterey La Soeur Ginza, no idea what it's like or where it is, but I think (hope) it's near Tokyo station. I'm making my way there and back on my own as my girlfriend is rendezvousing with her parents in Singapore first, and I have...

Weird this topic showed up, as I was trawling through CeX the other day looking for Misery and Salem's Lot in particular, and anything else to satisfy a Stephen King binge. I'm not a reader of fiction books but I consider myself a fan of King's nonetheless, mostly on account of the films based...

In physics, yes. In physiology, no. Is the 'glass half full/half empty' conundrum coming next?

The principle of 'mutually assured destruction' should keep us all safe from nuclear war. No state would in their right mind take the risk of launching a nuclear attack because they would effectively be launching a retaliation attack on themselves. However, the threat to this principle comes...

The Church of England was a Catholic church at the time. In other words, the Church of England adopted Protestantism at the Reformation. It is an institution rather than a region/denomination. I flicked over to the news yesterday and saw swathes of people lined up alongside the roads to throw...

The most common response to Rawls comes from communitarian thinkers like Sandel and Kymlicka. It's pretty long-winded stuff (and not a critique of Rawl's that I fully agree with, just putting it out there), but in summary: - Concepts of individualism and rights are 'a bad sociology', for they...

It's the only source of news and current affairs magazine/paper I bother with. I tend to buy mine when I travel to away games if I'm taking the train from Bedford or Milton Keynes, so weirdly I've always sort of associated it with City. A lot of the stories are submitted by newspaper...

- Packets of rice (they are stuffed to bursting point, and are tightly sealed, which means that the force required to open them inevitably sends the rice everywhere) - Packets of bacon (I pull at the tab in the corner but it just snaps off, so I have to get the scissor out every damn time)

The half-heartedness in Pellegrini's penalty appeal spoke volumes.

What the forgot to mention is that the Chinese government banned time-travel as a plot device in film and media, because they didn't want writers potentially re-writing their history in fiction. Simple as that.

When his team was introduced, and I heard "Investigator June Sarpong", that was it for me.

Pretty much how I feel about him. I've noticed that each time he makes a gaff, he tries harder to do something that is noticeably good (a big tackle, an interception, a killer pass), which in turn increases the chance of him making another mistake, so they just pile up. Contrast this with MDM...

I remember seeing a video of a crow solving a puzzle. A seed was placed at the bottom of a test tube, floating on a bit of water; the crow dropped stones into the tube to raise the water level and thus bringing the seed to the top. Amazing stuff.

I'm not a fan per se, more of an appreciator. Those of you more knowledgeable than me might tell me I'm wrong in saying this, but anime and manga have always struck as being styles/mediums rather than genres: you get sci-fi anime, fantasy anime, crime drama, horror, soap operas, etc. It's not...

Can't stand Top Gear, can't stand Richard Hammond and I don't really have any affection for Clarkson (although I like James May and some of the programmes he makes). The solution? I just don't watch it. Simple. There's a shit load of channels and on-demand services if I prefer to watch...