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Politics

Dog-walking Thoughts No 5 – Cracks in the Wall

The cracks are forming, but this is just the beginning of the beginning. We know that Brexit didn’t bring the whole edifice crashing down (despite the wins it did present) – rather it woke them [more...]
Authoritarianism

Kenya’s Electoral Theatre

As Kenyan voters, we have become used to experiencing, every five years, a high-stakes drama full of sound and fury, in which the stage is set years in advance, the actors are meticulously costumed, and [more...]
Animals

A View From (The Little Plot Just By) The Greenhouse; The Manipulation Of “Britishness”

Since my last missive the weather’s taken a bit of a turn for the worse, but then it is summer in England. Some of the plants, as is the way with nature, are grateful for [more...]
Arts

BritSitrep2026 – An overview of all that matters (Part 1)

There is a certain kind of British conversation that takes place in a quiet room with two cups of tea going cold on the table, the kind where one man tells another that the country [more...]
19th Century

Robert Stephenson: The Son Who Built The Railways

Everyone knows George Stephenson. The self-taught genius who invented railways. Except he didn’t, really. George was the visionary, the man who saw what steam could do. But the man who actually designed the engines, surveyed [more...]

Dog-walking Thoughts No 5 – Cracks in the Wall

10th June 2026 0

The cracks are forming, but this is just the beginning of the beginning. We know that Brexit didn’t bring the whole edifice crashing down (despite the wins it did present) – rather it woke them [more...]
Kenya’s Electoral Theatre

10th June 2026 0
A View From (The Little Plot Just By) The Greenhouse; The Manipulation Of “Britishness”

9th June 2026 0

Dog-walking Thoughts No 5 – Cracks in the Wall

10th June 2026 0

The cracks are forming, but this is just the beginning of the beginning. We know that Brexit didn’t bring the whole edifice crashing down (despite the wins it did present) – rather it woke them [more...]
Kenya’s Electoral Theatre

10th June 2026 0
A View From (The Little Plot Just By) The Greenhouse; The Manipulation Of “Britishness”

9th June 2026 0

BritSitrep2026 – An overview of all that matters (Part 1)

9th June 2026 0

There is a certain kind of British conversation that takes place in a quiet room with two cups of tea going cold on the table, the kind where one man tells another that the country [more...]
Tin Foil Hat – Final Part 3

8th June 2026 0
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1963

5th June 2026 0

Robert Stephenson: The Son Who Built The Railways

8th June 2026 0

Everyone knows George Stephenson. The self-taught genius who invented railways. Except he didn’t, really. George was the visionary, the man who saw what steam could do. But the man who actually designed the engines, surveyed [more...]
Tin Foil Hat – Final Part 3

8th June 2026 0
So…What’s Going Postal good for? (Part 2)

6th June 2026 0

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 6/6: The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Part 1 of 2

7th June 2026 0

In a record of one of our previous cases, to which I gave the somewhat lurid title ‘The Sussex Vampire’, my friend described the episode of the so-called Giant Rat of Sumatra as something ‘for [more...]
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty

7th June 2026 0
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Three

6th June 2026 0

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