A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to seem like a real possibility. Could the Israelis stage an event to look like an Iranian missile
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically childish response to Kier Starmer choosing not to recklessly plunge UK forces into the unprovoked war of aggression
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered
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“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
The devastating attacks on both Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) were launched on symbolically significant dates. So too with this war on
Well, one ambiguity from the recent drop of Epstein files was promptly cleared up. The initially redacted name of the sender of
Hey, have you seen the footage?! Jeffrey Epstein is alive! Here he is, filmed in Israel! Yes, this clearly AI-generated imagery is
100 years ago, the First World War was a devastating conflict in which many millions of people lost their lives and in which the political, social and even geographical state of the world was changed forever. But, far from being the “war to end all wars”, the consequences of World
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This year’s Christmas piece was originally going to be like last year’s and focus on an element of the Nativity tradition; instead, given current events and the popular reaction to them, I decided to go with a different subject – specifically, Islam and Christianity. There is now, perhaps inevitably, a
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He walked up to the podium to address the UN General Assembly. All eyes in the chamber were on the strange, eccentric figure, whose invitation to New York had been the subject of great controversy and coverage. Staring out at all the delegations of world government, he acted out ripping
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The more I look at the entire paradigm, the stranger
It’s all become very strange. And somewhat inscrutable. When a
Have you noticed that *mainstream* politicians and media are now
Berta Cáceres was one of Honduras’s leading indigenous activists and
So. Sorry if this is a little late. But I
Film
There are few, if any, MCU movies that I dislike.
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December was a sad
Killing Gaza is a film chronicle of the extraordinary suffering
So a new blockbuster called Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has just
In the sixth Star Trek film, The Undiscovered Country, Ambassador
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Music
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the
Twenty years ago, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in
Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
It so happens that so many of the albums made
Nirvana legend Krist Novoselic has entered into the controversy over