European Union
This Article is Only for Believers In Democracy
We should leave the EU at 2300 hrs on 29th of March 2019 without a deal… …Do you agree? The reasons why the best course of action is for the UK to leave the EU [more…]
Month: January 2019
Authoritarianism
Act II – Don’t Wreck Brexit
We have got used to the suppression of news, to the non-reporting of pro-Brexit rallies and events. And we have got used to the fact that pro-Remain rallies, marches, and pronouncements are given prominence and [more…]
Arts
Three Men on a Bike, Part One
I suppose it must have been during the 1965 Easter break from the Sixth Form that Bogs, Cough, Pat and myself decided that during the summer months between the AS level exams and the start [more…]
20th Century
2 – The Venona Project
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
Arts
PMQs with Going Postal
Link to PMQs on Parliament TV, or watch on GP TV. Agenda Oral questions – Wales Prime Minister’s Question Time Ten Minute Rule Motion – Ancient Woodland Inventory (England) Michael Fabricant MP (Lichfield, Conservative) Consideration [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part One
This story is in the near future. The United Kingdom has left and not left the European Union. The country is united by division. Everything is just like it is today, only more so. The [more…]
Conservatives
Democracy, Did It Ever Exist
The original concept of democracy as envisaged by the ancient Athenians was a society which governed itself under the guiding hand of citizens who were the contributors to that society.To use the American expression, they [more…]
19th Century
Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Three
Introduction Although the flintlock ignition system was technically advanced for its time, it wasn’t without its shortcomings. Flintlocks require careful setting-up and constant maintenance and adjustment to be reliable. They also have a relatively slow [more…]
European Union
The Time Has Come to Tell the Dane
Keep the £39,000 million. It’s a lot of money. Money we don’t have, well that’s my reckoning after a swift review of the UK Government’s balance sheet. We’re still running a deficit and, according to [more…]