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
It is a fascinating, though rather grim, story, spanning the First World War, the creation of the states of Israel, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, and taking in Lawrence of Arabia, all the way to the fall of Gadaffi in Libya, the Syria Civil War and Rise of the so-called Islamic
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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
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With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
MoreWeird Stuff
Should it be of concern to the general public that
If the recent horse-meat scandal made a lot of people
The various Holocaust memorial events across Europe that marked the
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
Even days after the event, there is still no footage
Film
I wasn’t necessarily disappointed by the Justice League film –
In anticipation of release of the latest Star Wars film
So Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice went down like
Recently, during a standard, heated argument about the Star Wars
So Star Wars is now in the hands of Disney:
Comics
Music
The ‘turning down Amy Winehouse’ bit is admittedly a slightly
I love PJ Harvey. I’ve always loved PJ Harvey. Ever
There’s music photographers: and then there’s music photographers. One of
Belated as it may be, I’m finally getting around to
This summer is the 20th year since the release of