I keep thinking – incorrectly – that this year can’t get any weirder. But 2024 keeps delivering. This business with the Princess of Wales really took a turn this week, with the household’s apparently doctored official Mother’s
I keep thinking – incorrectly – that this year can’t get any weirder. But 2024 keeps delivering. This business with the Princess of Wales really took a turn this week, with the household’s apparently doctored official Mother’s
Did anyone see the official Republican response speech to Biden’s State of the Union address last week? My God, that was some weird shit. Also highly creepy. So much so that I had to record a clip of it
It is possible that no event or sequence of events in recent memory has made
The ongoing infantilisation of American politics and discourse is something that can only be observed
The death of Alexi Navalny has been heavily spotlighted in the media. Rightly so, in some ways. He was seen – by
It was all about October 7th, remember. While almost all talk or argument about Israel/Gaza now and in the last four months
If you want a demonstration of how democracies can degenerate into deplorable farce, then Pakistan is usually a good example. For one
2024 appears to be off to a inauspicious start. If these first couple of weeks are anything to go by, no one
I should’ve written this piece weeks ago. But I’ve found it tough to put my thoughts into words. Ordinarily I don’t use
You don’t have to be Christian or even religious to appreciate the compelling and magical properties of the Nativity story, with its evocative and timeless images and the ideas it evokes. The imagery and mythology of the Nativity narrative – Magi, star, Herod and all – is something I’ve explored
MoreI recently posted at great length about the origins of Wahhabism (and Zionism) and its influence on today’s bleak and bloody Middle Eastern crisis; and about the Hashemite Arabs that were sidelined from Arabia after the First World War in favour of the Wahhabist Saudis. As a brief add-on to
MoreQueen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive figures from the permanently enchanting world of Ancient Egypt. Her final resting place has also eluded Egyptologists over the years, but it’s discovery would amount to one of the most important finds in history, probably even more so than Howard Carter‘s
MoreSo… how do you even write about COVID or the
If the Jurassic Park films have taught us anything, it’s
If you think you understand what’s going in the Middle
Before the usual calls to either (a) give away all
There was something I hadn’t even realised until after I’d
“Omar Sharif…? No one is called Omar Sharif! Your name
It’s hard for people sometimes to explain why someone mattered
With the classic Monty Python line-up being talked about a
You never forget your first love, they say. Carrie Fisher
Well, obviously, I wouldn’t be asking the question if I
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
I did whole, very long piece already on the Chris
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
I just saw one of the best shows of my
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to