“The biggest national security emergency” is how it has been described. Benjamin Netanyahu, as usual, attacked the “weakness” of the British government in defending Britain’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, have you heard of the ‘Shomrim‘? You’d be forgiven for saying
“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…” So said White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, just as the White House Correspondents Dinner was getting underway on Saturday. Sure, maybe it was just figure of speech, referring
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago,
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
As the country observes commemoration of the terrible 7/7 bombings that occurred in London 10 years ago this day, what will almost certainly be missing from the mainstream coverage is any mention of how flimsy and non-credible the official narrative of those events is. You will hear constant talk of
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In December 2021 – just a few weeks before the Russian military incursion into Ukraine – something incredibly interesting happened. A United Nations resolution was presented, its purpose being to condemn Nazism or the ‘glorification of Nazism’. Only two countries voted AGAINST the resolution. Guess which ones? It was the
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At this time, there are no doubt scores of World War I articles and expositions being published right now. But I also want to talk about one of the more famous cultural homages to the First World War – the fourth and final series of the classic British series Blackadder;
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You know, sometimes you start out with a simple question.
A diary kept by the late actor Heath Ledger while he
Last summer, when I first heard that a mysterious figure
If ever proof were needed that we inhabit an increasingly
Amid all the speculation surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines
I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
2014 marked three decades since the death of Richard Burton.
Has Superman just saved the universe? Well, a cinematic universe,
“So this is how liberty dies,” she says, with a
X-Men: Days of Future Past is good. Really good. I
I remember the first time I started paying attention to
In September, a 20th anniversary edition of In Utero is
A few weeks ago it was the 30th anniversary of
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and