Tim Laman wins wildlife photography award

American field biologist and photo journalist Tim Laman’s Orangutan ape pictured climbing into a tree to reach for figs has won the 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the year (WPY) competition. He captured the scene using a remote camera placed in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Borneo. His fearless bravery effort…

Oliver Stone on his new film “Snowden”.

“Snowden” – Open Road Films is directed by the veritable Oliver Stone known for a string of deeply moving and memorable movies already.  He says of the movie – surveillance, cyber warfare and drone warfare are all part of the story and of some of our own stories too.  Snowden was given permission to stay…

HALLOWEEN STYLE PEPPERS STUFFED AND MODELLED.

These peppers in the picture really seem to be trying to tell a story with the green one giving envious looks at the yellow one  but that is just co-incidence.  This recipe is a fun one if you have children in the house and is easy to make – if you are all adults of…

Boris has done a U-Turn on Brexit.

  According to The Sunday Times on 16 October an article announced  former London Mayor Boris Johnson – now Conservative Party Foreign Secretary has now decided that Brexit is not something he supports. Watch this space for future news on this issue.

CELEBRATING RIO 2016 67 MEDALS WON BY TEAM GB – LONDON TOUR.

After a parade in Manchester yesterday including performances by The Kaiser Chiefs and other singers, and dancing with a carnival  atmosphere, including a distribution of gold hats for the crowds,  the medal winners from Rio 2016 Olympics came to London today to assemble in Trafalgar Square and later to go on to Buckingham Palace. Mayor Sadiq Khan…

Park Crescent in Marylebone features top international artworks specially sourced for viewings.

Celebrities including David and Victoria  Beckham, Angelina Jolie Ivanka Trump and Amal Clooney were invited to a viewing function earlier this month  to look round  restored properties which come with their own artworks including paintings and artworks by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Alexander Calder  and Grayson Perry and others shipped from locations all over…

MDMD – new group of elderly on Euthanasia

My Death My Decision is a group of campaigners who believe they should have the right to die when their quality of life is “below the level they are able to accept”.  These are people who want the right to die in old age not necessarily with the  accompaniment of a terminal illness. They want to…