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
News
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 last couple of days have seen a resurgence in the popular interest surrounding the 125-year mystery of Jack the Ripper. This being in the wake of amateur investigator Russell Edwards declaring he has decisively exposed the identity of the infamous serial killer. Websites and newspapers in the passed two
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Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634 assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and
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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
MoreWeird Stuff
I wasn’t intending to post a full article on Musk’s
It gets tedious after enough time to keep going on
Having reiterated the general case for Princess Diana (and Dodi
I happened to notice that a week or so ago
There was a pre-9/11 world and a post-9/11 world. And
Film
With the classic Monty Python line-up being talked about a
Modern cinema sometimes feels like a revolving door, with films
It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
You might’ve heard already, but there’s a Supergirl live-action TV
It’s hard for people sometimes to explain why someone mattered
Comics
Music
“You mean like a funeral?” the producer of Nirvana’s MTV
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death
So. Soup. If you’ve already heard it, you probably don’t
It may have become a little cliched to wax lyrical
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and