The Sex Pistols played their first gig on 6 November 1975 and their last on 14 January 1978, not long after the release of their first and only album. No major rock band has had a shorter career. The phenomenon …
Another Another 25 Books You Should Read
At the end of last year, I released an article titled Another 25 Books You Should Read. Today, I am pleased to present Another Another 25 Books You Should Read!
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Episode 418 – I Read Bill Gates’ New Book (So You Don’t Have To!)
Have you read How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates yet? Well, I have, and let me tell you: it’s every bit as infuriating, nauseating, ridiculous, laughable and risible as you would expect. Here are the details.
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Dr Strange and the perils of the multiverse
This is a story about choices and consequences, so let’s start with DC’s decision in 1961 to publish a landmark issue of The Flash called “Flash of Two Worlds!” In the story, created by Gardner Fox and Carmen Infantino, the …
The books that made me
The first experience is hardly a memory, I can’t quite find the words. There was a veranda, in the shade, by the sunny courtyard (in my childhood memories it’s always sunny). There’s an armchair in the middle of the veranda, …
How did Elena Ferrante get away with it?
One might, with a little effort, recall a literary scandal of late 2016. James Wood, a few years earlier, had written a rave review of My Brilliant Friend, the first Neapolitan novel to be published in English. “Elena Ferrante, …
Why we fell for the con artist
Some people hunger for thrillers. Others feast on true-crime podcasts. My underrated source of tales of mind-boggling malfeasance is the ‘Scams’ section of the Guardian’s money pages, where no gimmicks are required. Here are stories of deception to chill the …
Inside China’s fiction factories
“I want to influence the world with China’s intellectual property.” This is the great ambition of Tang Jia San Shao, 41, who wants to build the “Disney World of China” — a gigantic theme park inspired by his stories. But …
Revealing Ukraine – Oliver Stone Documentary 2019
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Ukraine on Fire – The Real Story – Full Documentary by Oliver Stone…Interview 1707 – James Corbett Dissects The Great Narrative on The ITN Show
via ITNshow.com (RECORDED FEBRUARY 28, 2022): Podcaster and Thinker James Corbett joins ITN to discuss Klaus Schwab’s manifesto “The Great Narrative” on how the world’s elites can come together to convince humanity one world government is a good thing.
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Ukraine on Fire – The Real Story – Full Documentary by Oliver Stone
Note from Straight to the Point:
It has come to our attention that this documentary is disappearing from popular video-sharing sites. As much we understand that it provides a perspective which can be seen as a justification for current events …
Batman won’t save us
“This movie will go back to Batman’s roots,” said the journalist. “Mysterious, brooding, dark, sombre.” “I wanted to make the definitive, dark, serious version of Batman,” said the producer. “We live in very dark times,” said the comic-book writer. “It …
Kanye West’s tragic victory
It took me a while to figure out what the first two instalments of the new Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy reminded me of, this portrait of the artist as a young man trying to get ahead in the …
The empathy of Joseph Stalin
Once a book-hoarder, always one. In 1899, a promising young poet and would-be revolutionary dropped out of the theological seminary in Tbilisi, Georgia. He took with him 18 library books, for which the monks demanded payment of 18 roubles and …
Episode 412 – I Read The Great Narrative (So You Don’t Have To!)
Remember when the World Economic Forum held a conference on “The Great Narrative”? And remember when Klaus Schwab threatened to release a book on the topic? Well, guess what? It’s heeeere. That’s right, I read The Great Narrative and now …
