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
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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100 years ago, the First World War was a devastating conflict in which many millions of people lost their lives and in which the political, social and even geographical state of the world was changed forever. But, far from being the “war to end all wars”, the consequences of World
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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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Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive
What is the ‘Event’? And why are tech billionaires seemingly
The recent Apple Maps picture of an unidentified object in
It has become increasingly evident in the last several years
Film
2014 marked three decades since the death of Richard Burton.
First up, the great Stan Lee’s best MCU cameo appearance
In case you missed it, there was just another little
So, this is a review of the first season of
Killing Gaza is a film chronicle of the extraordinary suffering
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So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
I just saw one of the best shows of my
February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s