Israel is in trouble. ‘Victory’ in the material sense of the word might be within reach: at least as far as land-grabs, geopolitical ambitions, and the like are concerned. But it comes at a cost. And its carefully-managed
A bit of a coincidence. A bit of a coincidence that, just as the Israeli government was having its worst PR week since its Gaza campaign began over eighteen months ago, a random young guy happened to kill two Jewish
Is there a White Genocide happening in South Africa? Well, ‘no’ seems to be the
The critical acclaim lavished on the Star Wars limited series Andor has been deserved. By
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Is Lebanon part of Israel’s ‘Promised Land’? What about Syria? Jordan? And are sea-front properties in Gaza part of the divine inheritance
In 1994, James Dean Bradfield raised eyebrows by wearing an IRA-style balaclava during a Manic Street Preachers appearance on Top of the
“So this is how liberty dies,” she says, with a sullen, resigned expression, “with thunderous applause…” The line is spoken by Senator
It gets tedious after enough time to keep going on about 1984 or encroaching surveillance states, etc. Cliched even. Days after
On March 31st, she apparently posted a photo of her battered and bruised face, saying she had four days left to live.
A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not just a first century villa, but the villa believed to have belonged to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus; the historical character immortalised by actor Stephen Boyd in the 1959
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I recently posted at great length about the origins of Wahhabism (and Zionism) and its influence on today’s bleak and bloody Middle Eastern crisis; and about the Hashemite Arabs that were sidelined from Arabia after the First World War in favour of the Wahhabist Saudis. As a brief add-on to
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Why on earth has Ben Hur been re-made? If we’re talking about completely unnecessary remakes, you could barely get any more unnecessary than trying to remake a movie that is already an absolute classic.
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Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
As if the 2024 Presidential Election saga could get any
There was something I hadn’t even realised until after I’d
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
In the immediate aftermath of the death of Pope Francis,
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This is a belated review of Solo: A Star Wars
The online harassment of actress Kelly Marie Tran (who portrays
What never ceases to amaze me about the Star Wars
It’s become quite difficult to approach or review Captain Marvel
Instead of doing the usual thing this Halloween, like watching
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Music
Kristin Hersh’s debut solo album Hips and Makers, released in
Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
I remember the first time I started paying attention to