What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago, ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’ The Artemis II mission to the moon has been surrounded by significant hype and excitement: justifiably
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged and widely condemned public statement on Tuesday. Yes, much has been made of Trump’s ominous statements about annihilating
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This
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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.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant dates. So too with this war on
“You’re wasting your time appealing to the moral conscience of a bankrupt man like Uncle Sam. If he had a conscience, he’d straighten this thing out with no more pressure being put upon him…” “That whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America; America’s conscience is bankrupt. She
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On May 5th 2000, police in the south of France found a burnt body in the wreckage of a car, deep into the woods close to Nantes. The dead body was so extremely charred that it took a month for the DNA tests to ascertain the victim’s identity. The burnt
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I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here in this article. This is something of a thought-experiment; trying to track the various strands of consequences from a single event, but moreover, trying to understand why that
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So… how do you even write about COVID or the
The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness
It sounds like bleak science-fiction; a side note in some
In the immediate aftermath of the death of Pope Francis,
Alright, it’s Halloween, so let’s get to the weird shit.
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In Lauren Bacall we lose one of the very last
On the matter of J.J Abrams’s 2009 Star Trek reboot
It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
As monumental a cinematic achievement as Avengers: Endgame was, one
‘Rewatch’ seems like an inadequate word; I’ve probably watched this
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Twenty years ago, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in
So with Courtney Love in the UK playing live shows
This summer is the 20th year since the release of
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the
It so happens that so many of the albums made