What is the ‘Event’? And why are tech billionaires seemingly rushing to build Doomsday bunkers? Does any of that relate to Trump and his ‘ballroom’ obsession? Let’s examine this a little. The construction of the White House ‘ballroom’ in
“The biggest national security emergency” is how it has been described. Benjamin Netanyahu, as usual, attacked the “weakness” of the British government in defending Britain’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, have you heard of the ‘Shomrim‘? You’d be forgiven for saying
“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…” So said White House
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago,
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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
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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Augustus is without doubt one of the most fascinating figures of history; and also one of the ancient historical figures we know most about because he left such clear marks on the world: politically, religiously, even physically. He wanted everyone to know who he was, when he lived and what
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“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent a great deal of time exploring Syria, wrote specifically of Palmyra; “Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could be so refreshing”. It might also have been Lawrence who
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Hollywood movies and other media being used for propaganda purposes
The latest apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems to
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
Everyone will have noticed the sudden explosion of new Michael
35 years after the original film, the sequel to the
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The mysterious death of movie legend Natalie Wood might be
Didn’t have enough time to properly, fully eulogise concerning the
Why on earth has Ben Hur been re-made? If we’re
It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
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I’m not the only one who’s sad to hear that
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
I don’t think too many people, other than absolute PJ
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died
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