What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago, ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’ The Artemis II mission to the moon has been surrounded by significant hype and excitement: justifiably
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the ‘Prince of Peace’ in a badly judged and widely condemned public statement on Tuesday. Yes, much has been made of Trump’s ominous statements about annihilating
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried
“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This
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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.
“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
Mainstream and online media outlets have been pouring over the release of thousands of documents pertaining to the JFK assassination. But the result, near as I can tell, appears to be that we’ve learnt a great deal – and nothing at all. And this was probably how it was meant
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So… the long anticipated and much hyped ‘JFK files’ document dump. Some 80,000 pages of files have been made public, as per promises President Trump had made during his election campaign. But does it really tell us anything? Does this massive release of documents actually bring us any
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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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It’s a curious error; assuming it was an error at
The mass shooting in Las Vegas has prompted all the
Dame Janet Smith’s 1,000-page report into the sexual misconduct of
So… Haiti. And the assassination of its president, Juvenal Moise.
It’s all become very strange. And somewhat inscrutable. When a
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The passing of Peter O’Toole in December 2013 was a
The X-Men film franchise in general has been a mixed
Now that we have The Last Jedi, let’s revisit the
I don’t quite get some of the online hate for
The sole Daredevil movie to date, the 2003 film starring
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I’ve already published a long reaction/opinion piece on the Chris
It’s been 20 years, unbelievably, since Bjork released her second
Nirvana legend Krist Novoselic has entered into the controversy over
The Foo Fighters are back with a shiny new album
Along with the twentieth anniversary of Live Through This, a