At the risk of turning into my Dad, I feel more and more alienated by the internet-driven society in which we live. Being twenty, I can remember a time when not every household had a computer (gasp!), let alone two or three, and when the Internet was something of a novelty whereby you could...
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Having grown out of Reading Festival, tired of seeing fifteen year-olds ‘getting down’ to The Pigeon Detectives and The Klaxons, myself and several uni mates decided to take a punt on Exit Festival in Serbia. Although not as well publicised and thus not quite as mainstream as the likes of Benicassim, Rock Werchter and...
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Trina Thompson may not have graduated from Harvard with a degree in Rocket Science but you would still expect an IT graduate from Monroe College in New York to be pretty smart, with a smidge of commonsense. This is apparently expecting too much however, as the 27-year-old graduate is suing her college after being...
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Barcelona is meant to be one of the best cities in Europe: modern, cosmopolitan and edgy enough to keep bleary-eyed twenty-something professionals packing out their bars at 5am yet still trudging into work, inexplicably fresh-faced, just a couple of hours later. It’s popular enough to keep tourists clocking in and out of its airports,...
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My old school offers places to ex-pupils on their school trips. It’s a simple arrangement: you come along as a responsible adult, and they drag you around the finest Roman ruins in Italy for a week or so, half-board, for a decent price. Realistically you’re there as a spare body, someone who can, if...
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