It was a bit funny that at more or less the same time NASA gave its big presentation on UFOs, this weird thing happened in Mexico. In case you missed any of this, on Thursday NASA presented its highly anticipated
The case of escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife, who has now been captured again, is beginning to strike me as curious. And not for the reasons everyone else thinks, which is his being able to escape Wandsworth Prison in a
The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually in the media: but Sinead
I’m still here. Despite the evidence to the contrary. I wasn’t killed by a drone
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Have you noticed how everyone seems to be turning against protesters? It can’t have escaped anyone’s attention that coverage of protesters and
It seemed bizarre on the face of it anyway. But maybe not so bizarre when one considers the strange interests and alliances
Once again, the major media (both in Britain and in the US) went into a feeding frenzy over the latest episode in
The failed assassination attempt against ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan recently was not a surprise. When I covered the controversies around
The tedious and interminable gameshow-styled spectacle of the Tory leadership contest(s) seems to have finally concluded… after weeks and weeks of smug,
This year’s Christmas piece was originally going to be like last year’s and focus on an element of the Nativity tradition; instead, given current events and the popular reaction to them, I decided to go with a different subject – specifically, Islam and Christianity. There is now, perhaps inevitably, a
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Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634 assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and
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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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The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness
On 13th March 1996, according to the ‘official’ version of
Last summer, when I first heard that a mysterious figure
Before the usual calls to either (a) give away all
A week now after the attacks in Paris that news
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The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
Rita Hayworth is still one of the most iconic pop
There are few, if any, MCU movies that I dislike.
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“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
Long-awaited albums are not an uncommon phenomenon in modern music,
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death
Hated by many, maligned by many more, mocked and frequently
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani