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
So… the long anticipated and much hyped ‘JFK files’ document dump. Some 80,000 pages of files have been made public, as per promises President Trump had made during his election campaign. But does it really tell us anything? Does this massive release of documents actually bring us any
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With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
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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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Widely published ‘reports’ in the last week or so claimed
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
So. The crucifixion. And the resurrection. A story, a myth,
So, and perhaps inevitably (?), I’ve been kicked off Twitter…
‘The world is a stage’, the saying goes. Lately, I’ve
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In a mansion in the fictional Xanadu, a vast palatial
You never forget your first love, they say. Carrie Fisher
So Hillary is being investigated again by the FBI? The
With the classic Monty Python line-up being talked about a
So Star Wars is now in the hands of Disney:
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The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
This summer is the 20th year since the release of
Being something of a social outcast and regular grouch, it
I’ve already published a long reaction/opinion piece on the Chris