‘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
A first century BC villa on the fringes of Rome is likely to be destroyed by a modern housing development. And not just a first century villa, but the villa believed to have belonged to Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus; the historical character immortalised by actor Stephen Boyd in the 1959
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So… let’s establish some very important background to what’s currently going on in Israel and with the Palestinians. We really, really need a history lesson: one that shows where the downfall of the Palestinian movement occurred, where any hope of peace died, and where Hamas came from. First, I’ll just
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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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The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness
A diary kept by the late actor Heath Ledger while he
So here’s a question: who remember’s Gaddafi’s claim back in
I’m not going to spend too long on this; as
There’s a robot head on the Moon. Did you know
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Very few people would deny that Darth Vader is one
So I’ve just rewatched The Last Jedi for the fifth
One of the biggest complains that some fans had with
Didn’t have enough time to properly, fully eulogise concerning the
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
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It has been 100 years since the birth of the
It’s been 20 years, unbelievably, since Bjork released her second
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
I love PJ Harvey. I’ve always loved PJ Harvey. Ever
Kristin Hersh’s debut solo album Hips and Makers, released in