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
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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Augustus is without doubt one of the most fascinating figures of history; and also one of the ancient historical figures we know most about because he left such clear marks on the world: politically, religiously, even physically. He wanted everyone to know who he was, when he lived and what
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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
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That’s right; the brave, elite soldiers doing what they apparently
The more I look at the entire paradigm, the stranger
Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
As it is that night of the year, I figured
Film
You may have heard that Suicide Squad is terrible. You
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
First of all, Han should always have shot first! But
Guardians of the Galaxy was about as enjoyable as I
It is hard to imagine that the original Star Trek
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Music
Yep, another of those ’20 year anniversary’ posts that I’ve
Hated by many, maligned by many more, mocked and frequently
I was astonished to realise recently that 2017 would mark
Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
A few weeks ago it was the 30th anniversary of