Bruno Bayley

Bruno Bayley

  • Hating Work And Working With Pricks

    Modern Toss is our favourite British cartoon by miles. It’s as if Johnny Ryan’s strips have been transplanted into a jobcentre in Slough

  • Fright Night

    Before Haiti was catapulted into the news following the catastrophic earthquake in January that killed 230,000 people, it was mainly known for two things: Wyclef Jean from the Fugees and Voodoo.

  • Hell On Earth

    Situated at the southernmost tip of the Middle East, just across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, Yemen is the region's poorest country, and one of the more heavily armed Arab nations.

  • The Guatemalan Lady Killers

    While Mexico fights a war against the drug cartels that control much of its northern border, a lesser-known struggle is talking place in Guatemala, its neighbor to the south.

  • Duncan Fallowell

    At 21 Duncan Fallowell was the Spectator’s first rock critic. He then released the anthology Drug Tales in 1979, before promptly giving up drugs to prevent “burning out.”

  • Norman J. Warren

    Until the mid-1970s, British horror films tended to be camp, period rehashes of American horror classics in which hammy, top hat-wearing toffs would end up being killed by the big guys from the gore of yore.

  • Raving, We’re Raving

    In 1989, Gavin Watson went from being a documenter of skinhead culture to being one of the only people who managed to operate a camera through the ecstasy haze that enveloped England that year.

  • You're Gonna Die!

    Within the next 30 years, technology will advance at such a rate that it will produce an intelligence explosion, cause a world war, and create new variations of the human species.

  • Explaining academia

  • David Chambers

    You have almost certainly never heard of David Chambers, but he makes suits for some of the best-dressed people in the world, from David Bowie to Terence Conran, with a long semi-secret list of other clients.