You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock up on food and emergency supplies. I noticed these warnings appearing in the headlines about a month ago; but they’ve reappeared more explicitly today as
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself against various sexual abuse allegations. Obviously, I’m not going to comment on the specific allegations or on the legal proceedings. But I have been meaning
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it
News
There’s almost nothing left to say about 9/11 that hasn’t been said already by someone at some point. And there’s nothing new
Admittedly a strange one, this. I almost wasn’t going to post it at all: but I’ve decided to just do it anyway.
So. The 2026 FIFA World Cup. The biggest show on Earth. I’ve been working on this article for weeks: but I decided
So, Disclosure Day is here. The movie, that is. This article contains no spoilers, by the way: I haven’t seen the movie
“The greatest World Cup ever…” is what he’s calling it. Of course he is. And that’s what ‘FIFA peace prize’ winner Trump
Why on earth has Ben Hur been re-made? If we’re talking about completely unnecessary remakes, you could barely get any more unnecessary than trying to remake a movie that is already an absolute classic.
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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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On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st, an American/CIA drone (being operated from Las Vegas) spots the convoy and alerts NATO bombers, which immediately begin bombing the vehicles.
MoreWeird Stuff
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive
So… Haiti. And the assassination of its president, Juvenal Moise.
The apparent Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself
Film
Do Luke Skywalker and Tony Stark essentially get the same
Yeah OK, so it’s that age-old fandom question: who’s the
With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best
Eighties kids and film fans have inevitably been getting excited
Comics
Music
Every couple of months, in the last few years, it
Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
I was astonished to realise recently that 2017 would mark
“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the