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
Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634 assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and
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9/11. We must never forget. Of course. Never forget the almost three thousand innocent people who lost their lives in one of the biggest acts of mass murder in modern history. The plight and the suffering of all those people is burned into our collective consciousness and should never be
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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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This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
I happened to notice that a week or so ago
Should it be of concern to the general public that
It sounds like bleak science-fiction; a side note in some
Human beings aren’t just getting greedier, but stupider. That’s according
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So Hillary is being investigated again by the FBI? The
So, I don’t necessarily like doing this sort of thing.
Among all the various ‘controversies’ to surface concerning the Star
Now three decades old, the Search For Spock – the
X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
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Being something of a social outcast and regular grouch, it
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of
I was astonished to realise recently that 2017 would mark