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 against various sexual abuse allegations. Obviously, I’m not going to comment on the specific allegations or on the legal proceedings. But I have been meaning
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it
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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
“The greatest World Cup ever…” is what he’s calling it. Of course he is. And that’s what ‘FIFA peace prize’ winner Trump
The riddle of the Roman ‘ghost legions’ is one of the most fascinating anomalies or urban legends around, particularly in Britain. As it’s that time of the year, I want to briefly come back into this area – particularly for how the mystery of the spectral legions can also lead
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So… the long anticipated and much hyped ‘JFK files’ document dump. Some 80,000 pages of files have been made public, as per promises President Trump had made during his election campaign. But does it really tell us anything? Does this massive release of documents actually bring us any
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“Every person has two homelands,” the French archaeologist Andre Parrot once commented; “His own and Syria”. T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), who spent a great deal of time exploring Syria, wrote specifically of Palmyra; “Nothing in this scorching, desolate land could be so refreshing”. It might also have been Lawrence who
MoreWeird Stuff
A couple of days ago, media outlets in the UK
The more I look at the entire paradigm, the stranger
So, this is about two very different, though technically similar,
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
One hundred years ago Albert Einstein, in his General Theory
Film
The X-Men film franchise in general has been a mixed
In anticipation of the highly anticipated X-Men: Apocalypse movie, I
Across three seasons of groundbreaking television with Star Trek (and
Yeah OK, so it’s that age-old fandom question: who’s the
This is going to be nothing like as long-winded as
Comics
Music
This is a complex one. But highly interesting. And probably
Billy Corgan is definitely one of those guys who has
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
A decade on from it’s critically acclaimed UK release, Katastrophy
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of