• Business

    A Plutocrats’ Tour of The North, Part Eight

    The phrase “grim up north” lingers in the national imagination and conjures images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. Yet this caricature of tired decline obscures another, less frequently told [more...]
  • Fiction

    Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Ten

    When they had ordered the food and a bottle of wine, Jane asked how the meetings had gone today. “You probably know already, the meetings with the PM and the Home Secretary were both the [more...]
  • Arts

    Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Back To The Future

    Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers another groin-polished googly from the gasworks-end of contemporary culture. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark both International Drop [more...]
  • Engineering

    A Wet HS2? Part Three

    DIP’s nuclear element The vast expense of the nuclear element of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) – by far its largest commitment – has drawn our focus in two previous articles upon the following: Dreadnought [more...]

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