Everything about this latest change in presidency in the US has felt slightly off. Amid everything else that drew attention around the event of Donald Trump‘s inauguration, I missed something that could be quite significant. It’s a comment the
It was really sad hearing the news that legendary filmmaker and artist David Lynch had passed away. He has been not only such a great artist, but such a great character, in my or our creative landscape for so long
I wasn’t intending to post a full article on Musk’s antics at the Trump Inauguration,
So. Even though the news agenda has moved on already, it’s worth taking the time
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Well, it was always going to be an odd affair. Perhaps not as odd as some of the insane public events that
Since I already covered this subject a fortnight ago, I’ll try to be more brief this time. This is more of an
This is a difficult subject for me to cover, for several reasons. But I think it really needs to be examined. And
Ten years ago, I asked at the start of this article, ‘Why is Israel bombing Syria?’ The answer wasn’t difficult to work
It’s almost been mystifying. The speed and ease with which rebel forces have taken major Syrian cities and, as of Saturday, reached
A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not just a first century villa, but the villa believed to have belonged to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus; the historical character immortalised by actor Stephen Boyd in the 1959
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You might’ve heard that the US has left Afghanistan. After twenty years there, the US and the international forces have pulled out. They tried to do it pretty quietly. So quietly, in fact, that the overnight departure from the Bagram Air Base was something the Afghan commander there didn’t even
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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
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The stench of media and government deception and stage-management in
The last couple of days have seen a resurgence in
An update on the ‘Jade Helm’ business. A nice lady
This month will see the delivery of the Pentagon’s much-hyped
The latest apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems to
Film
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
There’s something undeniably magical about that cultural institution of the
Well, obviously, I wouldn’t be asking the question if I
There has been, ever since The Force Awakens came out,
Today the world will say its final goodbye to one
Comics
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Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
I remember the first time I started paying attention to
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
Every couple of months, in the last few years, it
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died