Why isn’t Iran allowed to have a nuclear weapon? That’s a question I continually ask myself wherever thinking about this particular geo-political situation. At a surface level, one might argue the answer is obvious: we don’t want a regime
What really happened in Los Angeles in recent days? Was it really a ‘warzone’, as Trump and co called it? And what are Trump and his people really playing at? Let’s break these events down and try to answer
Do you remember the famous mind-control/torture scene from A Clockwork Orange? There’s a reason I’m
People’s stupidity genuinely baffles me sometimes. Well, it’s either stupidity or wilful ignorance. Maybe even
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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
Is there a White Genocide happening in South Africa? Well, ‘no’ seems to be the answer. No organisation or observers either internationally
The critical acclaim lavished on the Star Wars limited series Andor has been deserved. By far, it has been the best of
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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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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I’ve been fascinated by historic letters and correspondence for some time; and I wrote a post covering some of this a while ago. Letters, particularly communications never meant for public consumption, provide a fascinating insight into significant historic or cultural events, times or figures. They also can help to humanise
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Since I already covered this subject a fortnight ago, I’ll
In some countries right now, the COVID vaccination issue is
That is to say, aside from the obvious links in
So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has
As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of
Film
So yesterday was Star Wars Day. I’m a day late,
X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
2014 marked three decades since the death of Richard Burton.
What never ceases to amaze me about the Star Wars
Comics
Music
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
So, I went back and forth for a few days
February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
Tonight, twenty years after Kurt Cobain chose to burn out