sunday times

I Wasn’t The Devil’s Double. I Made the Whole Thing Up. [UPDATED]

There’s an interesting story by Ed Caesar in tomorrow’s Sunday Times. It concerns a man named Latif Yahia, who is the subject of a new $20m film called The Devil’s Double, starring Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!, The History Boys.) Yahia first came to my attention four years ago, when I was on the staff of an independent magazine called Mongrel.

I had come across the story of an Iraqi exile living in Ireland. The guy seemed to have been through hell. He had been taken out of the Iraqi army, in which he served as a captain during the Iran-Iraq war, and forced to work as a body-double for Uday Hussein. He had been tortured and even forced to undergo cosmetic surgery that he might more closely resemble Saddam’s psychotic son. Read the rest of this entry »

Badass sentences I’d love to have appear in my obituary but am realistic enough to realize never will #347

From the obituary for Israeli spy chief David Kimche which appeared in the Sunday Times today… Read the rest of this entry »

INTERNATIONAL JUDEO-MASONIC-ANTI-JIM CORR CONSPIRACY STRIKES AGAIN

First they came for Jim Corr, and I did nothing – because I was not Jim Corr etc. etc… Yes, having already succeeded in railroading us unwittingly into a one world totalitarian superstate, via the passing of the Lisbon Treaty, the Illuminati are now striking back against their staunchest Irish critic. Read the rest of this entry »