The invasion of Iraq has been called the greatest intelligence failure of all time. This is – of course –...

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Perhaps unavoidably, in this month’s subscriber-only podcast we discuss the war in Ukraine – what led up to this point,...

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Perhaps the most infamous story in the history of James Bond is the plagiarism lawsuit brought against Ian Fleming for...

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Epstein didn’t kill himself. Or at least, there’s nothing in 3674 pages of his Bureau of Prisons files from his...

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From the same ‘what the fuck are the CIA up to now?’ school of thought as the episode of Top...

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Since it’s Christmas, I thought we’d do something Biblical and look at an extremely stupid TV show that I happen...

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The third season of the popular LAPD-supported cop show The Rookie is markedly different to its first two seasons. Or...

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‘Propaganda has been in existence since the time human society came into being; it has always been most closely associated...

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From our ‘cancelled after one season’ file come The Code, a CBS legal procedural set in the JAG corps of...

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Iron Man launched the world’s biggest film franchise, as well as one of the most effective vehicles for military propaganda....

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