What is the ‘Event’? And why are tech billionaires seemingly rushing to build Doomsday bunkers? Does any of that relate to Trump and his ‘ballroom’ obsession? Let’s examine this a little. The construction of the White House ‘ballroom’ in
“The biggest national security emergency” is how it has been described. Benjamin Netanyahu, as usual, attacked the “weakness” of the British government in defending Britain’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, have you heard of the ‘Shomrim‘? You’d be forgiven for saying
“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…” So said White House
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago,
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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried out… by Iran? This has started to
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
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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You don’t have to be Christian or even religious to appreciate the compelling and magical properties of the Nativity story, with its evocative and timeless images and the ideas it evokes. The imagery and mythology of the Nativity narrative – Magi, star, Herod and all – is something I’ve explored
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Today the world will say its final goodbye to one of the greatest cultural figures – and probably the most charismatic – of the 20th century. And also the greatest sports star probably of all time.
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Is that a tongue-in-cheek title? Not really. It isn’t much
April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf
The ‘Omicron Variant’, despite sounding like a sci-fi novel title,
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to
One of the (many) weird things about the pandemic was,
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With all the focus on whether Luke Skywalker got the
What is the greatest moment or scene in all of
So Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice went down like
Killing Gaza is a film chronicle of the extraordinary suffering
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
Comics
Music
So Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam caused “controversy” after their
Very little that could be deemed exciting seems to happen
Yeah, seriously. And you don’t even have to ‘win’ the
I wanted to make sure I put up something –
On 5th April it will be precisely 20 years since