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
The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 was perhaps the 9/11 of its time: and today marks 30 years since it happened. While it didn’t result in the kind of phony Global ‘War on Terror’ that was conducted after 9/11, it did give the US and Britain the platform for beginning a
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As it is that night of the year, I figured now was the time to have a bit of fun and talk about ghosts. This is actually a long-time favorite subject area for me, as I was fascinated by ghosts, the supernatural and anomalous activity and para-science in general throughout
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With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
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Donald Trump never did anything inappropriate with young girls. Neither
Though the Zika virus was originally discovered in 1947, cases
Hollywood movies and other media being used for propaganda purposes
The ‘joke’ about Puerto Rico wasn’t the worst part at
Before the usual calls to either (a) give away all
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Now three decades old, the Search For Spock – the
A brief moment to pay tribute to someone that people
It’s hard for people sometimes to explain why someone mattered
On the 10th anniversary since the sad passing of Christopher
Guardians of the Galaxy was about as enjoyable as I
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Much as I slated the Kurt Cobain statue in Aberdeen
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
The tradition of musicians writing songs or composing projects centered
In 1994, James Dean Bradfield raised eyebrows by wearing an
As much as I have mixed feelings about Nirvana’s imminent