Benugo Bar

Great bar on the Southbank. Good luck finding it.

Bennie and the Jets

I wrote my dissertation on Political Marketing and the use of the internet to foster interest amongst the youth of today. It was largely a conceptual piece and was looking to torpedo the unfortunately buoyant impression that young people are totally apathetic, but it seems to have come alive over the recent US election and the upcoming UK one. For me, selfishly, it's very exciting.

Debates are re-screened on Youtube and Facebook feeds are filled with comments in support of various parties. Echo-chambers are beginning to form between traditional and online forms of media and live commentary and debate is simmering on Twitter, whipping up a virtual inferno of online conversation. Granted, I may be tapped into an engaged demographic, yet the development of online political marketing and its integration into various communities is evident. Those who dismissed the implicit impact of online media should be kicking themselves, and they quite clearly just don't get it.

Handmade films, who made classics like Withnail & I (above), are looking for investment. A cool £22m to buy them out. So if anyone knows somebody with that kind of cash...it's better than buying a super-yacht.

According to Alex Salmond, the SNP should be included in the televised debates for the election on May 6th, alongside the 'other' national parties.

But Alex, you can't win the election because you're not standing for enough seats. FAIL.

Childish but hilarious...

Great Speeches

Shakespeare's Henry V Band of Brothers speech

Preparing the troops before we go toe to toe with the French...again.

Churchill - We shall fight on the beaches

Preparing the country before we go toe to toe with the Germans...again.

Col Tim Collins on the eve of the Iraq invasion 2003

This speech was considered one of the best speeches in modern times.

Obama - Grandmother speech

Fighting through the tears, a great orator. One of the few speeches that isn't too 'much'.