I hadn’t initially given much thought to the vehicle/terror attack/massacre in Barcelona; aside from it basically feeling like ‘business as usual’ for Europe in this terror-dominated spell of the twenty-first century. And also aside from thinking that the attack in Barcelona happened at the right time to try to divert some of the attention from […]
It’s fair to say that what unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday is the kind of thing that has been expected for some time now. The ongoing inflamation of identity politics and provocation of divide-and-conquer or ‘strategy of tension’ conditioning has been paving the way for incidents like this one; with more probably to come. […]
So this feels really weird now. After Chris Cornell’s death back in May, I wrote one immediate article on the subject and then I consciously chose not to write anything more. This was for the same reason that I chose not to get drawn into all the conspiracy theories and predictable ‘Illuminati ritual murder’ videos […]
A couple of days ago marked the one-year anniversary of the failed coup attempt in Turkey. This event has been substantially commemorated in Turkey in recent days; although, even now, it really isn’t clear precisely what happened a year ago. Some still think the ‘coup’ attempt was staged by the government as a means for […]
Rita Hayworth is still one of the most iconic pop culture figures of the 20th century and one of the four or five most iconic ‘Hollywood’ stars of the last century. A few weeks ago marked the thirtieth anniversary of her death in 1987, and I wanted to take a moment to draw attention to […]
Widely published ‘reports’ in the last week or so claimed that the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group’s elusive ‘caliph’, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been killed in a Russian airstrike in Raqqa. In fact, the reports are now that this story was false – which makes me wonder why it was doing the rounds at all. Baghdadi […]
Seriously? A ‘Day of Rage’? The problem I have with this protest in London is two-fold. The first is wanting to ‘bring down the government’ (according to the event page on Facebook), which is totally wrongheaded. And I say this as someone who generally supports Jeremy Corbyn. The second reason is much more ominous to […]
In regard to the Finsbury Park attack on Monday, a lot of talk has resurfaced regarding recurring fears of ‘civil war’ type scenarios in the not-distant future or a ‘race war’ type of situation: one that might not just threaten England, but occur elsewhere too, like in France or the United States. I want to […]
A quick post here on the Finsbury Park attack – because what I actually want to talk about more is the so-called ‘race war’ meme or the widespread predictions/fears of a ‘civil war’ type scenario on the streets of England, as well as France, the US and elsewhere. That, however, is such a big, important […]
This is probably being a little tongue in cheek; and it probably isn’t the most serious or important story in the news right now. But it bothered me enough to want to say something about it. Specifically about Liberal Democrats leader, Tim Farron, resigning. The reason he has specifically given for having done so is […]
