Tommy Taylor’s SRU
An election will be fought out this September and issues of importance should be discussed over the coming months. Do you consider personal and private revelations are important? Do you consider back stabbing and leadership challenges are the order of the day? Of course it would be helpful if either party could establish a leader … [Read the full story]
Tommy Taylor’s SRU
Saint John the Divine was a monk on Patmos around one hundred years after the death of Christ. He wrote a book about Revelations…or possibly he dreamed about what he thought would happen after the destruction of the city of Jerusalem by the Romans. Mostly his anger was directed at Nero. Now today, we are … [Read the full story]
Is the 21st December 2012 Armageddon Day?
Predictions for the end of the world on the 21st of December 2012 are to a historian really unlikely. We base our predictions on the past and what is likely to happen again. Looking at the current news and the red line policy for the middle east, shows similarities with the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. … [Read the full story]
Is Madonna off her tits?
It is alleged that Madonna thinks the US President is a Muslim. Strange because he seems to be backing Israel quite strongly. Perhaps she has spent too much time in London. Latest name being talked up in the Grey saga is allegedly Kate Winslet (now an Oscar winner) would give the film some clout. The … [Read the full story]
“Dagg by name, dag by nature”, says Buford
At 12 years of age, Israel Dagg was drinking on the streets of Hastings, headed to the gutter. A decade later, the streets of Hastings and the rest of New Zealand drank to Dagg, their World Cup hero. This remarkable, against-the-odds story is owed to a life-changing decision by Dagg to attend a well-heeled boarding … [Read the full story]
The year ahead – my predictions for 2012
Last year all of Helena Bryanliths predictions came true, a one hundred per cent success rate…but his year could be more problematic. So I thought I’d have a go…it can’t be that difficult…can it? Could the Mayans be right? …I think not this year. In Hollywood expect surprises at the Oscars, and later in the year we will … [Read the full story]
First bikini model on Arab magazine front cover
Yara Mashour has made it her business to break taboos.As editor in chief of Lilac, an Arab magazine based in Israel, she has set out to challenge customs and tradition…and her latest milestone is perhaps her biggest triumph to date. This month’s Lilac, for the first time ever, sees an Arab magazine featuring a model … [Read the full story]
History is in the eye of the ignorant
I am getting older and spend my time looking backwards at history. That is true history, not the history proposed by twenty somethings just out of university. As a lad I was able to talk to my Grandad, he told me about the First World War. Not from history books, but from the sights and … [Read the full story]
Pamela Anderson just hates fur…and hair, and stuff
Pamela Anderson is on a mission in Israel, to meet and persuade religious leaders to ban the use of fur. Of course she’s on a campaign, as every woman should be. The women of today don’t like fur…any sort of fur…especially on their body. If there’s even a glimpse of a spiders leg sticking out … [Read the full story]
A Mosque has been attacked
Jewish settlers opposed to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians were accused of setting fire to a mosque in the West Bank, burning the Koran and scrawling threats in Hebrew on its walls. ‘Mosques we burn’,said a warning scribbled at the door of the smoke-damaged mosque of Beit Fajjar which is south of … [Read the full story]
