Category Archives: Current Affairs

Anyone who thought Formula 1 had lost its sparkle will have had a big change of heart if they watched the US Grand Prix in Austin.

Back in 1989, when Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled into the future in the sequel to the Back To The Future blockbuster, the date they arrived in was 21 October 2015. Now we’re living in this time, how accurate were they in their predictions of what the future had in store?

The latest CoolBrands list has been revealed and digital giant Apple has retained its crown as king of cool, topping the list for the fourth year on the trot.

It certainly stimulates the brain cells, but should bridge be classified as a sport?

Queen Elizabeth II has celebrated becoming the country’s longest reigning monarch, surpassing the reign of her great great grandmother Queen Victoria. In actual fact the Queen marked the occasion in very low-key style, by opening a railway line in the Scottish borders. She downplayed the milestone by saying it was never anything she had aspired to and that ‘Inevitably a long life can pass by many milestones – my own is no exception’.

Whilst summer is undoubtedly the most anticipated season of the year, it is often the most disappointing. 

Even if you are not a royalist, it’s hard not to be a little bit impressed at the Queen’s 63 years on the throne.

When you see films or pictures of a future world, it always involves cities with flying vehicles everywhere – but maybe we have been setting our sights too high.  With traffic becoming an increasing problem in our society, it is not surprising we are all thinking of new forms of travel for the future – but maybe we have been imagining it all wrong.