A few nights ago, the call was for ‘unconditional surrender’. Not long after, the E-4B Nightwatch, also known as the ‘Doomsday Plane‘, made an unexpected journey to Joint Base Andrews near Washington, DC, on June 17th. The plane, described
Between the threats, accusations and strange decisions, it’s hard to keep up with it all. On the same day that President Trump demanded ‘unconditional surrender’ from Tehran, Israeli tanks allegedly killed 51 Palestinians who were queuing for food/aid in Gaza.
Why isn’t Iran allowed to have a nuclear weapon? That’s a question I continually ask
What really happened in Los Angeles in recent days? Was it really a ‘warzone’, as
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Do you remember the famous mind-control/torture scene from A Clockwork Orange? There’s a reason I’m bringing that up, which you’ll see in
People’s stupidity genuinely baffles me sometimes. Well, it’s either stupidity or wilful ignorance. Maybe even outright dishonesty. As the fiery feud
Let’s be brief with this one. An apparent attack on a gathering of Israelis in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, closely follows the
Israel is in trouble. ‘Victory’ in the material sense of the word might be within reach: at least as far as land-grabs,
A bit of a coincidence. A bit of a coincidence that, just as the Israeli government was having its worst PR week
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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100 years ago, the First World War was a devastating conflict in which many millions of people lost their lives and in which the political, social and even geographical state of the world was changed forever. But, far from being the “war to end all wars”, the consequences of World
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It has become increasingly evident in the last several years that if the full truth about possible child abuse among the British Establishment (and beyond) ever comes out, we could witness the complete collapse of the Establishment. Indeed, other Establishments may follow, as the (alleged) cover-up appears to stretch beyond
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You want to know something weird? Of course you do.
One hundred years ago Albert Einstein, in his General Theory
Scientists conducting experiments at the Large Hadron Collider imminently ‘hope
The burning up of so much of California over a
This is just a little update with some newer information.
Film
As I didn’t write anything about Avengers: Endgame at the
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
On the matter of J.J Abrams’s 2009 Star Trek reboot
As monumental a cinematic achievement as Avengers: Endgame was, one
‘Yes’… is the short answer. I wouldn’t have bothered writing
Comics
Music
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
DMX was one of the very few ‘mainstream’ rap or
I’m not the only one who’s sad to hear that
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
Every couple of months, in the last few years, it