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
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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A brief word in respect for Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, who passed away a few days ago. And also on the story of Hannah Arendt (pictured above); one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Kaufman, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until his death in 2017,
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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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The Minneapolis school shooter was a weird guy. Robin/Robert Westman
So… the Pentagon’s long-awaited and much-hyped report on UFOs has
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
The wonders of the Hubble Space Telescope continue to stun
A couple of days ago, media outlets in the UK
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The X-Men film franchise in general has been a mixed
With the classic Monty Python line-up being talked about a
Today the world will say its final goodbye to one
“So this is how liberty dies,” she says, with a
To mark Easter Sunday, I’ve decided to pay respect to
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In September, a 20th anniversary edition of In Utero is
Twenty years ago, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death
February 1st 2015 marks twenty years to the day since
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the