Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best Christmas film is, I cite the same handful of movies as my personal picks. Obvious ones: the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street or Capra’s universally loved It’s a Wonderful
So, a few things I’m lumping together here. But all around the theme of Christmastime. In truth it has all become a bit of a pantomime, as we’ll observe. It even features the pantomime villain – in the form of
So, a quick follow on from the post on the Bondi beach terror attack. The
Islamist gunmen opening fire on exclusively Jewish targets on a Sydney beach on the first
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is being closely observed. You’ve probably heard about it. It’d be astonishing if
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to guess probably not. But the fact that this question is even
It was in March 2003 that Britain joined the United States in the illegal invasion of Iraq. As is by now commonly
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. A new album, featuring Chris Cornell’s final work with
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total flop and has been trashed by pretty much everyone. Some have called
Mainstream and online media outlets have been pouring over the release of thousands of documents pertaining to the JFK assassination. But the result, near as I can tell, appears to be that we’ve learnt a great deal – and nothing at all. And this was probably how it was meant
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I 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
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In 2008 or 2009, the BBC made a documentary on life inside Libya: I remember it because I watched it at the time of its broadcast. Up until the beginning of 2011, that video was available on You Tube. Once the international community had made up its mind – after
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The apparent Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol
If ever proof were needed that we inhabit an increasingly
As it is that night of the year, I figured
About the Orlando Massacre narrative: subsequent oddities and inconsistencies in
Yes, we’re going there. Why not? You know, I was
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Very few people would deny that Darth Vader is one
Do Luke Skywalker and Tony Stark essentially get the same
Didn’t have enough time to properly, fully eulogise concerning the
You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
George Lucas’s final contribution to his epic Star Wars saga
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It may have become a little cliched to wax lyrical
“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
In 1994, James Dean Bradfield raised eyebrows by wearing an
The term ‘icon’ gets thrown around a little too casually
I just saw one of the best shows of my