The latest reports from Syria are horrifying. In the few months following the collapse of the Assad government, international coverage of Syria has largely disappeared. Which meant either that nothing much was happening (unlikely): or that international media largely preferred
There’s no question that the Ukraine situation is a quagmire. And the series of arrangements, miscalculations, provocations and maneuvers that have led to this impasse is ultimately a saga of manipulation and hypocrisy. And that it’s not even clear
It seems like the answer is simply yes. How else to explain things like the
Just when you might think it couldn’t get any more absurd or disgusting. Just when
This one is even less convincing than previous efforts. In fact, this one is extremely lazy. You would, at this point,
It was hailed as an immediate success of the Great Trump in his new presidency. After more than a year of
The other night, a convicted felon and a war criminal sat beside each other to answer questions from journalists. The longtime allies
Everything about this latest change in presidency in the US has felt slightly off. Amid everything else that drew attention around the
It was really sad hearing the news that legendary filmmaker and artist David Lynch had passed away. He has been not only
April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf Hitler is recorded by history to have met his infamous end; taking his own life in a Berlin bunker as the city lay in ruins around him, the war lost. The image of a defeated, deflated Hitler confined to his
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As it is that night of the year, I figured now was the time to have a bit of fun and talk about ghosts. This is actually a long-time favorite subject area for me, as I was fascinated by ghosts, the supernatural and anomalous activity and para-science in general throughout
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Every few Christmases, I tend to re-read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as the book has always had a hold on me ever since I first read it as a child. When I read it as a child, I had no real social conscience or understanding, of course – I simply
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It was a bit funny that at more or less
Is that a tongue-in-cheek title? Not really. It isn’t much
Queen Nefertiti has remained one of the most fascinating, elusive
Do you ever get the feeling that our collective destiny
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a
George Lucas’s final contribution to his epic Star Wars saga
So Hillary is being investigated again by the FBI? The
On the matter of J.J Abrams’s 2009 Star Trek reboot
It is 20 years since the first broadcast of the
My original – and admittedly very long – review of
The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores
Following, somewhat fortuitously from an article here a few weeks
Tonight, twenty years after Kurt Cobain chose to burn out
For at least two months after Chris Cornell died a
If you haven’t seen the music videos for ‘Blackstar’ or
