The Church of England is undergoing a disheartening descent into spiritual darkness. Once an institution embodying truth, ...

The opening sequence, inexplicably, has a wrestling match with two contests enjoying their carnage, only for us to find a whistleblower in the crowd being threatened by two official-looking goons. The ...

The remarkable thing is that, in this story, the crocodile is actually the most consistent participant. He does not pretend ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

The global discussions around the controversial movie Citizen Vigilante are both boring and alarming. Because if people don’t ...

Hello everybody – my friend gave me a book of Bronze Age Pervert, also known as BAP. I call him BAP for brevity & clarity. My friend is valuable – he also writes books, crowdfunds them, and presents ...

Europe has once again been shaken by violent riots in Brussels, London, Paris, and Belfast among other places in recent weeks. Any pretext is good for riots. A football match, a Palestine ...

The November Men' (1993) purports to be about a director making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The ...

At first, the king agrees, with some prodding from his lovelorn brother Menelaus, then he changes his mind. Even Menelaus realises how wrong he was, blinded by rage over Helen, and tries to repair ...

For decades, the phrase “from the Nile to the Euphrates” has occupied a peculiar place in Middle Eastern political imagination, drifting between symbolism, fear and accusation depending on who is ...

To embrace the arts is to open one’s mind to the possibility that the impossible is within reach. At Beirut's historic Le Monnot theatre, you quickly feel less in a physical space and more in an ...