On the eve of what turned out to be a disastrous mid-term elections for Trump and the Republicans, the President made an interesting statement. He declared essentially that the yearly US military aid funding to Israel ($3.8 billion a year)
It’s the eve of the US mid-term elections. And the Trump Republicans have already been playing the usual game of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the process before any of it has even happened. This same strategy of
‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought
You might’ve noticed a number of news items about the government advising people to stock
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WandaVision really is a masterpiece. And I don’t throw that word around lightly. I always loved it, but ahead of the approaching
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
So, we’re told a major terror operation was just heroically thwarted: involving a potential hijacked plane headed for Israel. A dramatic mid-air
The RAF Fairford Incident is still veiled in mystery. I have a sneaking suspicion it might actually remain unresolved, going forward.
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
As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, I decided to mark it with a more low-key, fun-ish look back at Libya’s former national figurehead. A more serious piece on the life and character of one of the most controversial world figures of
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You might’ve heard announcements this week that the mysterious Shroud of Turin has apparently been successfully dated to the time of Jesus. After decades of claims and counter-claims, this latest claim – which purports to be decisive, but will probably be contested further – seems to suggest the legendary cloth
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In 2008 or 2009, the BBC made a documentary on life inside Libya: I remember it because I watched it at the time of its broadcast. Up until the beginning of 2011, that video was available on You Tube. Once the international community had made up its mind – after
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The latest apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump seems to
The Rapture is happening, FYI. Or it’s just happened. Did
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
Have you fallen down the ‘Q-Anon’ rabbit hole yet? Let’s
On 13th March 1996, according to the ‘official’ version of
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In case you missed it, there was just another little
‘Rewatch’ seems like an inadequate word; I’ve probably watched this
In anticipation of the highly anticipated X-Men: Apocalypse movie, I
Whilst the Star Trek franchise is generally as mainstream as
In Lauren Bacall we lose one of the very last
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I don’t think too many people, other than absolute PJ
December marked 20 years since the release of Pearl Jam’s
Alright, so ‘saved my life’ might be a slight overstatement.
Noticing that yesterday marked twenty years to the day of
Pearl Jam’s induction into the Hall of Fame could probably