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
It is interesting, as the tensions and provocations between North Korea, the US and China continue, that it wasn’t that long ago when South and North Korea appeared to be moving mutually towards more cooperation and friendlier relations. Things, it appeared, could’ve been very different. Before South Korea’s more conservative
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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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It has become increasingly evident in the last several years that if the full truth about possible child abuse among the British Establishment (and beyond) ever comes out, we could witness the complete collapse of the Establishment. Indeed, other Establishments may follow, as the (alleged) cover-up appears to stretch beyond
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I keep thinking – incorrectly – that this year
This is probably the most important thing that will be
With most developed countries now well into the process of
Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro
Amid all the speculation surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines
Film
Recently, during a standard, heated argument about the Star Wars
It is hard to imagine that the original Star Trek
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
What is the greatest moment or scene in all of
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Music
As a little kid, one of my very first musical
Very little that could be deemed exciting seems to happen
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died
Tonight, twenty years after Kurt Cobain chose to burn out