On February 3rd, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was murdered in his home in Zintan, Libya. Four unidentified gunmen invaded the property and opened fire. The 53 year-old son of the late Muammar Gaddafi is reported to have tried to fight back,
Where to even begin? Implied murders? Missing babies? A reinforcement of Pizzagate…? And plenty of ambiguity and continued enigma. And that’s barely scratching the surface. The release of some three million files relating to Jeffrey Epstein on January 30th kicked up
Some kind of US attack on Iran seems to be imminent. Iran hasn’t been out
Have you illegally invaded another country and waged war? Do you stand convicted of war
News
“Venezuela’s struggle is Israel’s struggle…” Guess who said that? It sounds like something Netanyahu would say. But no, it wasn’t him.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by ICE agents could be a turning point, according to some. Then again, maybe
The protests in Tehran have been somewhat overshadowed by what the US just did in Venezuela. But the situation appears to be
So, no one really needs a recap of what transpired in Caracas on the third day of the new year. Essentially, US
On September 1st 1918, Damascus fell. Or was liberated – depending on your perspective. It fell to the Arab Revolt, carried out
Mainstream and online media outlets have been pouring over the release of thousands of documents pertaining to the JFK assassination. But the result, near as I can tell, appears to be that we’ve learnt a great deal – and nothing at all. And this was probably how it was meant
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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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As has been feared for weeks now, ISIS/ISIL members are reported to have begun to destroy historic sites in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The ISIS/ISIL fighters defeated the Syrian Army and took control of the historic city last month. I was watching this story closely and dreading that news.
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Tapping into the hype surrounding the return of The X-Files
Let’s be brief with this one. An apparent attack on
Jerusalem is regarded as an international city, under a world
Ben Shapiro unironically called it ‘a religious event’. I don’t
There’s a robot head on the Moon. Did you know
Film
This is a belated review of Solo: A Star Wars
Some have referred to it as ‘the Return of Captain
I don’t quite get some of the online hate for
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December was a sad
Recently, during a standard, heated argument about the Star Wars
Comics
Music
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
I love PJ Harvey. I’ve always loved PJ Harvey. Ever
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death