20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1988
Featured song: The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
Month: May 2019
Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th May 2019 Panel: Barry “Pip” Gardiner (Remainer) Jo “Squeak” Swinson (Remainer) Rory “Wilfred” Stewart (Remainer) Stephen Pinker (Psychologist and Remainer) Alex Phillips (Brexit MEP) Venue: Epsom, Surrey (52 Remain/48 Leave) Pinker is [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Epsom. On the panel: Rory Stewart MP, secretary of state for international development and Tory leadership candidate; Barry Gardiner MP, [more…]
Conservatives
PR counting – d’Hondt and STV systems
After perusing the results of the Euro Elections I just about feel confident enough to explain how the two different types of PR counting work. Northern Ireland, in common with the Republic, use the Single [more…]
Arts
The Far-Left Agenda of Sheffield Hallam University
You are probably well-versed on the subject of left-wing bias in the higher education system. It is something which has thankfully received notable attention over the past few years. Personally, I have first hand experience [more…]
America
All That Jazz – Part 1 (1950-1955)
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
Conservatives
Deliverance
The Conservative Party and the Labour Party, the duelling banjos of UK politics, took a stuffing, a stuck-pig type stuffing in the EU elections. Squeal piggy, squeal! Burt Reynolds was the man, the alpha male [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifteen
Joe Malone, searching for clues to the disappearance of Lord Bixby, has just arrived with Bixby’s wife, Lady Vanessa, at the Reform Club in Pall Mall. We got out of her car. She motioned her [more…]
Authoritarianism
Globalism v. Nationalism IV
Wow, friends. What a few weeks it has been since the last piece I wrote. The battle between nationalism and globalism continues, as does the collapse of traditional left versus right politics. Evidence of this [more…]