At about 8:30 pm on March 8th 2025, unidentified agents seized a student from the lobby of his apartment building in Columbia University housing. The agents were not in uniform, did not identify what agency they worked for, and threatened
The latest reports from Syria are horrifying. In the few months following the collapse of the Assad government, international coverage of Syria has largely disappeared. Which meant either that nothing much was happening (unlikely): or that international media largely preferred
There’s no question that the Ukraine situation is a quagmire. And the series of arrangements,
It seems like the answer is simply yes. How else to explain things like the
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Just when you might think it couldn’t get any more absurd or disgusting. Just when you might think this grotesque alternate timeline
This one is even less convincing than previous efforts. In fact, this one is extremely lazy. You would, at this point,
It was hailed as an immediate success of the Great Trump in his new presidency. After more than a year of
The other night, a convicted felon and a war criminal sat beside each other to answer questions from journalists. The longtime allies
Everything about this latest change in presidency in the US has felt slightly off. Amid everything else that drew attention around the
The riddle of the Roman ‘ghost legions’ is one of the most fascinating anomalies or urban legends around, particularly in Britain. As it’s that time of the year, I want to briefly come back into this area – particularly for how the mystery of the spectral legions can also lead
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9/11. We must never forget. Of course. Never forget the almost three thousand innocent people who lost their lives in one of the biggest acts of mass murder in modern history. The plight and the suffering of all those people is burned into our collective consciousness and should never be
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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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An image, captured by the Curiosity rover’s MastCam on August
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
Tapping into the hype surrounding the return of The X-Files
It sounds like bleak science-fiction; a side note in some
If the Jurassic Park films have taught us anything, it’s
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35 years after the original film, the sequel to the
Well, obviously, I wouldn’t be asking the question if I
Someone asked me the other day why I’ve been so
Across three seasons of groundbreaking television with Star Trek (and
I’ve already published a proper review of the Captain Marvel
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I was astonished to realise recently that 2017 would mark
As much as I have mixed feelings about Nirvana’s imminent
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of
Between 1987 and 2001, Kat Bjelland (vocals, guitar), Lori Barbero
Every couple of months, in the last few years, it