On the eve of what turned out to be a disastrous mid-term elections for Trump and the Republicans, the President made an interesting statement. He declared essentially that the yearly US military aid funding to Israel ($3.8 billion a year)
It’s the eve of the US mid-term elections. And the Trump Republicans have already been playing the usual game of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the process before any of it has even happened. This same strategy of
‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock
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WandaVision really is a masterpiece. And I don’t throw that word around lightly. I always loved it, but ahead of the approaching
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself against various sexual abuse allegations. Obviously, I’m
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked plane headed for Israel. A dramatic mid-air
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually remain unresolved, going forward.
There’s almost nothing left to say about 9/11 that hasn’t been said already by someone at some point. And there’s nothing new
To say that Britain had been propelled into a kind of mania in the days following the death of Her Majesty the Queen would be a bit of an understatement. For ten days after the news broke of the passing of Elizabeth II, almost no other news or subject existed.
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I’ve been fascinated by historic letters and correspondence for some time; and I wrote a post covering some of this a while ago. Letters, particularly communications never meant for public consumption, provide a fascinating insight into significant historic or cultural events, times or figures. They also can help to humanise
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With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
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The stench of media and government deception and stage-management in
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to
The ‘Omicron Variant’, despite sounding like a sci-fi novel title,
There was a pre-9/11 world and a post-9/11 world. And
Do you ever get the feeling that our collective destiny
Film
A diary kept by the late actor Heath Ledger while he
The X-Men film franchise in general has been a mixed
I don’t quite get some of the online hate for
“Omar Sharif…? No one is called Omar Sharif! Your name
Among all the various ‘controversies’ to surface concerning the Star
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Music
Alright, so ‘saved my life’ might be a slight overstatement.
Yep, another of those ’20 year anniversary’ posts that I’ve
Pearl Jam’s induction into the Hall of Fame could probably
Much as I slated the Kurt Cobain statue in Aberdeen
“This is not pop music,” REM’s Michael Stipe says, as