As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too. All we can do at this stage is keep taking notes: documenting the insanity as it continues to
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No, of course we’re not talking about Trump and Netanyahu here. The above description is of Ronald Reagan‘s
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant
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Well, one ambiguity from the recent drop of Epstein files was promptly cleared up. The initially redacted name of the sender of
Hey, have you seen the footage?! Jeffrey Epstein is alive! Here he is, filmed in Israel! Yes, this clearly AI-generated imagery is
On February 3rd, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was murdered in his home in Zintan, Libya. Four unidentified gunmen invaded the property and opened
Where to even begin? Implied murders? Missing babies? A reinforcement of Pizzagate…? And plenty of ambiguity and continued enigma. And that’s barely scratching
Some kind of US attack on Iran seems to be imminent. Iran hasn’t been out of the news for weeks, since protests
At this time, there are no doubt scores of World War I articles and expositions being published right now. But I also want to talk about one of the more famous cultural homages to the First World War – the fourth and final series of the classic British series Blackadder;
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A brief word in respect for Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, who passed away a few days ago. And also on the story of Hannah Arendt (pictured above); one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Kaufman, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until his death in 2017,
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Every few Christmases, I tend to re-read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as the book has always had a hold on me ever since I first read it as a child. When I read it as a child, I had no real social conscience or understanding, of course – I simply
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Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
Though the Zika virus was originally discovered in 1947, cases
Tapping into the hype surrounding the return of The X-Files
You want to know something weird? Of course you do.
Film
I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
So a new blockbuster called Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has just
Do Luke Skywalker and Tony Stark essentially get the same
Some have referred to it as ‘the Return of Captain
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
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Music
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
On 5th April it will be precisely 20 years since
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death