5 Facts BBC’s “The Salisbury Poisonings” Forgot to Mention
The BBC's new drama "The Salisbury Poisonings" concluded over the weekend. A three-part story "based on actual events", claiming to tell the story of the alleged poisoning of Sergei...
Mueller Finally Gives up His Two Year Search For a Non-Existent Needle
Quelle surprise. After more than two years looking for a non-existent needle in an ever-expanding haystack, Chief Hunter of the Needle, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, has finally declared that...
Douma “Chemical Attack”: Still Waiting for an Apology
As in so many of Australia’s military forays around the world, the legal basis for the Syria involvement is notably absent, although in this particular case their role was...
Disbelief, Magic Realism and Doublethink Alive and Well in 2018
James O’Neill In the Lyrical Ballads, a collection of essays and poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the latter coined the phrase “the willing suspension of disbelief.”...
Joining Some Dots on the Skripal Case: Part 6 – Tying up the Loose Ends
Rob Slane, the Blogmire Over the last five pieces (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I have, slowly but surely, advanced a theory of what...
Joining Some Dots on the Skripal Case: Part 5 – An Educated Guess
Rob Slane, the Blogmire I want in this piece to start joining some dots together on this case, using some of the facts, clues and suppositions that I have...
What Would Sherlock Holmes Have Made of the Government’s Explanation of the Case of Sergei and Yulia Skripal?
by Rob Slane from The Blogmire In an article on 3rd May, the Guardian journalist, Luke Harding, made the following rather amusing observation: Since the Skripals were found stricken...
Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity?
from The BlogMire, via Russia Insider For some time I’ve been trying to develop an all-encompassing theory to account for the behaviour of Western leaders and the media over...
