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Muse with Starlight . Album Black Holes and Revelations (2006). They are from Teignmouth in Devon, which is just a short distance up ...

In the wake of President Trump announcing his plans to relocate the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in Malmo, Sweden, hundr...

Phil Collins with Don't lose my number , a hit from his third solo album No Jacket Required (1985). Start at the 1:32 mark to skip the ...

In Amsterdam, a follower of the prophet went Kristallnight on a Jewish restaurant. According to Selçuk Öztürk, the bearded chap being interv...

Okay, almost every week. On OCT 23, 1995, the US Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act , meant to initiate and fund the relocation of th...

A work by Jack Vettriano from his Bluebird series, though I haven't been able yet to find out its title. Anyone know it, please drop a...

Carly Simon with You're so vain . Album No Secrets (1972). Two years ago Simon revealed the name of one guy, but only the one fea...

Just one item among many in the newspaper Het Nieuwsblad : at Charleroi Internatinal Airport (BSCA) a luggage labourer was arrested some te...

I was reading an article this evening by Townhall's esteemed Larry Elder in which he opined to 'Dump Roy Moore'. This affai...

Poor Aussies. Only now are they coming to appreciate that gay marriage is the next best thing. O'er here in Europe and the States,...

You gotta ab-so-lu-te-ly check out these guys' site , their mini-docus on their bike rides in exotic locations are awesome. Their latest...

Via Mark Steyn , Kathleen Death Panel Sebelius has a change of heart re the Democratic demi gods (until yesterday). Which is weird, cause I ...

I'd like it to happen more often but who am I to complain. I'm talking about the Aha-Erlebnis of coming across unputdownables . I...

The Dream Chaser is being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems as a reusable automated cargo or passenger spaceplane. ...

Last weekend it was hundreds of 'youths', read Moroccan 15-30 year olds, who ran amok in central Brussels after Morocco had been qua...

I actually wanted to write about the appalling violence of our muslim friends in Brussels this weekend (22 police officers wounded, cars to...

One Sunday last June, I decided to go for a walk with our son. I'm a big fan of the Ardennes, but this time for some reason I thought I...

Todd Rundgren with I saw the Light . From the 1972 double album Something/Anything? , which he recorded partly at home. Multi-instrumentalis...

Once again sorry for the very light blogging. Last summer, my main supplier went bust. Or as good as. Production was erratic from June to mi...

The Cure with Why can't I be you? Album Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me (1987). Would you believe they've been around since 1976??...