There are many weird irrational phobias out there from clowns (coulrophobia) to fears of birds (ornithophobia). One phobia that is not all the entirely irrational is a fear of being buried alive (taphophobia). What makes taphophobia not all that unreasonable is that a lot of people have been accidentally buried alive over the years. Taphophobia…
Ever wanting to look like the “big kids on campus,” Boris Johnson and his British Empire nostalgia-driven government have offered 3 million Hong Kong nationals the right to move to England. Hurrah! Only 23 years after we gave up the colony. British National (Overseas) Passport In actual fact, what the UK has done is offer…
Much like the protests against the police policy of ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ which started the current wave of civil unrest in America, the false binary that Whiteness is exclusively to blame for the United States’ societal woes has lead to a ‘cancel first, ask questions later’ policy being perpetrated by Woke America. What…
So picture it. You went out for a night on the town. You have a pint. And another. And another. And a whiskey. And another pint. On and on it goes until you’ve been thrown out, vomited in the alley and need to stumble back home without so much as a kebab to help you….
As you may know, the Cold War is over. What many people regard as the definitive symbol of this end is not the lowering of the Soviet flag, but rather the collapse of the Berlin Wall, what many view as the visual metaphor for the so-called ‘iron curtain’. On November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall…
The idea of communist guerrillas may seem like an anachronism now. Isn’t that 60s and 70s stuff? Viet-Cong lurking in the jungle, or at a push, the FARC in Colombia who have since disarmed. (And are now being murdered at a frightening rate after the fact). But no, in some parts of the world, the…
Cuba is a tropical country. When you think of it, you think of sun, sandy beaches, palm trees and plenty of scantily clad people. Oh, and communism. You also probably think about the fact that Cuba is one of the only remaining Marxist-Leninist states that happens to be right under America’s nose and which was…
For anyone familiar with the US military and the internet, you’ll likely be aware of the phenomenon that surrounds the US Marine Corp. A phenomenon that involves one of the world’s most elite military regiments and the sticks of colored wax known as crayons. In today’s article, Weird World Wire is going to get to…