‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied… chains us all irrevocably…’ So said Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in the classic Star Trek episode ‘The Drumhead’. He continued,
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock up on food and emergency supplies. I noticed these warnings appearing in the headlines about a month ago; but they’ve reappeared more explicitly today as
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked
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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
Admittedly a strange one, this. I almost wasn’t going to post it at all: but I’ve decided to just do it anyway.
So. The 2026 FIFA World Cup. The biggest show on Earth. I’ve been working on this article for weeks: but I decided
So, Disclosure Day is here. The movie, that is. This article contains no spoilers, by the way: I haven’t seen the movie
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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A magical star leading three mysterious ‘wise men’ from the East across miles and miles of wilderness to a small, obscure town. And a troubled husband and wife travelling on donkey, social outcasts turned away by one apathetic towns-person after another, desperate for a simple act of human compassion to
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As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, I decided to mark it with a more low-key, fun-ish look back at Libya’s former national figurehead. A more serious piece on the life and character of one of the most controversial world figures of
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A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa
The case of escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife, who has
Right now, some over-excitable people are fretting or evangelizing about
A week now after the attacks in Paris that news
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
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The online harassment of actress Kelly Marie Tran (who portrays
Or ‘Why it needs to be Fantastic’ is what I
I’ve already published a proper review of the Captain Marvel
There are few, if any, MCU movies that I dislike.
Instead of doing the usual thing this Halloween, like watching
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A statue of the late Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman and rock music
While Glastonbury has been getting headlines recently, it’s worth saying
In September, a 20th anniversary edition of In Utero is
Long-awaited albums are not an uncommon phenomenon in modern music,
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the