‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied… chains us all irrevocably…’ So said Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in the classic Star Trek episode ‘The Drumhead’. He continued,
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock up on food and emergency supplies. I noticed these warnings appearing in the headlines about a month ago; but they’ve reappeared more explicitly today as
Russell Brand’s trial has begun in the UK, as the celebrity grifter/influencer begins defending himself
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked
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The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually remain unresolved, going forward.
There’s almost nothing left to say about 9/11 that hasn’t been said already by someone at some point. And there’s nothing new
Admittedly a strange one, this. I almost wasn’t going to post it at all: but I’ve decided to just do it anyway.
So. The 2026 FIFA World Cup. The biggest show on Earth. I’ve been working on this article for weeks: but I decided
So, Disclosure Day is here. The movie, that is. This article contains no spoilers, by the way: I haven’t seen the movie
To say that Britain had been propelled into a kind of mania in the days following the death of Her Majesty the Queen would be a bit of an understatement. For ten days after the news broke of the passing of Elizabeth II, almost no other news or subject existed.
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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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If you’ve never heard of Smedley Butler, it wouldn’t be your fault. But we all should have heard of him. Let’s rewind 80 years or so and remember the case of the Retired Marine General Smedley Butler: what he did, what it meant and what the implications are. Butler uncovered a
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Berta Cáceres was one of Honduras’s leading indigenous activists and
Amid all the recent provocation and manuevering concerning Russia, Ukraine
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli
You know, sometimes you start out with a simple question.
The ‘Omicron Variant’, despite sounding like a sci-fi novel title,
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With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
You might’ve heard already, but there’s a Supergirl live-action TV
There’s something undeniably magical about that cultural institution of the
The sole Daredevil movie to date, the 2003 film starring
There is something that occurred to me ever since seeing
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As a lifelong Nirvana fan, it has always stuck out
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the
I don’t usually do these kinds of subjects, for various
Nineties Indie kids might be pleased by the return of
It’s really weird when someone like David Bowie dies, because