Have you noticed how everyone seems to be turning against protesters? It can’t have escaped anyone’s attention that coverage of protesters and protest, whether in the media or online, has become increasingly negative, even hostile. In fact, much of the
It seemed bizarre on the face of it anyway. But maybe not so bizarre when one considers the strange interests and alliances that have been lurking in the background of political events all over the place for nearly a decade:
Once again, the major media (both in Britain and in the US) went into a
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was, like 9/11, the element of
The failed assassination attempt against ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan recently was not a surprise. When I covered the controversies around
The tedious and interminable gameshow-styled spectacle of the Tory leadership contest(s) seems to have finally concluded… after weeks and weeks of smug,
The attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in late September were an extraordinary international and geopolitical event: the true cause of which
To say that Britain had been propelled into a kind of mania in the days following the death of Her Majesty the
Anyone still enjoying the embarrassing spectacle of the Conservative leadership contest in the UK? I will assume not any more than anyone
There is something innately fascinating about, not so much the judicial process as a whole, but the institution of the trial itself. That’s why court-room dramas are so popular. From classic films like To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men or even the trial of Kirk and McCoy in Star
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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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It is interesting, as the tensions and provocations between North Korea, the US and China continue, that it wasn’t that long ago when South and North Korea appeared to be moving mutually towards more cooperation and friendlier relations. Things, it appeared, could’ve been very different. Before South Korea’s more conservative
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So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has
April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf
Do you ever get the feeling that our collective destiny
Last summer, when I first heard that a mysterious figure
With most developed countries now well into the process of
Star Wars “purists” who’ve for a long time been waiting
It is hard to imagine that the original Star Trek
Needless to say, this is my provisional review of The
I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
Instead of doing the usual thing this Halloween, like watching
“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
Someone, via social media, criticised me for writing such a
Between 1987 and 2001, Kat Bjelland (vocals, guitar), Lori Barbero
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out