“The biggest national security emergency” is how it has been described. Benjamin Netanyahu, as usual, attacked the “weakness” of the British government in defending Britain’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, have you heard of the ‘Shomrim‘? You’d be forgiven for saying
“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…” So said White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, just as the White House Correspondents Dinner was getting underway on Saturday. Sure, maybe it was just figure of speech, referring
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago,
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
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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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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History is cyclical, they say. Or, to quote George Lucas, “it’s like poetry, it rhymes.” That idea has been very much in mind as I’ve watched this Imran Khan saga and the degradation in Pakistan’s politics unfolding. I examined the important details concerning Khan’s removal from office here: and, crucially,
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The wonders of the Hubble Space Telescope continue to stun
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
I cannot think of any TV news that has been
It gets tedious after enough time to keep going on
George Lucas’s final contribution to his epic Star Wars saga
In the sixth Star Trek film, The Undiscovered Country, Ambassador
‘Yes’… is the short answer. I wouldn’t have bothered writing
2014 marked three decades since the death of Richard Burton.
X-Men Apocalypse isn’t quite the disaster some reviewers thought it
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
Pearl Jam’s induction into the Hall of Fame could probably
Twenty years ago, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in
A few weeks ago it was the 30th anniversary of