Matthew Brady: “Me eyes must be foolin’ me!”
Reading Time: < 1 minute Arr, landlubbers, grab your oars, fasten your wooden legs and don your eye-patches as we prepare to meet the Pirates
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A tale of two faces: Brigitte Bardot vs Britt Ekland
Reading Time: 2 minutes These days, plastic surgery is so common that thespians who age naturally belong to an exclusive club. Although this club
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INXS vs Australian Crawl for the award of Rockstars with the Worst Table Manners in a Music Video
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1980s were a golden age for music videos, mainly due to MTV’s ceaseless promotion of its artists and its
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Conscious agents versus spacetime theory
Reading Time: < 1 minute I don’t pretend to understand much, if anything, of Dr Donald Hoffman’s theory of conscious agents. Dr Hoffman is a
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ABC vs Ultravox: Best trench-coat worn by a male singer in a 1980s video
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1980s are known for big hair, pastel clothing and lots of partying. Yet hardly anyone knows about the 80s
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Is David Icke a genius or a crackpot?
Reading Time: 2 minutes David Icke, former British footballer and sport journalist, is either a genius or a crackpot. And plenty of people think
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When the Hunger Games became the Met Gala
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Hunger Games is a successful movie franchise based on the popular book trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. The story
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How the Mitford sisters and the Kardashians reflect their times
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mitford sisters were wealthy aristocrats from a quirky 20th century English family. The Kardashian/Jenner sisters are wealthy American celebrities
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