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Month: August 2019

Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 28

31st August 2019 Always Worth Saying 2154 Comments

At 5227 San Augustin Street, Makati City, after dark, there were no yellow ribbons for me nor a line of concerned people praying and clutching the rosary. A maid answers the door and looks surprised rather than [more…]

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Crossword No. 81

31st August 2019 Going Postal 2321 Comments

Special Prize! First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP clock! (Batteries included, some self-assembly required – the hands) Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email [more…]

Arts

Meet Markos Vamvakaris (“Mark Cotton”) – Patriarch of Rebetiko

29th August 2019 Going Postal 3579 Comments

Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]

Book Review

Book Review: The Unseen Path by JD de Pavilly

28th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 5796 Comments

They say that Freddie Forsyth is happy to review any new written work. The caveat being that, if after half an hour he is bored or confused, the soft bits (that’s your or my great [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Seven

27th August 2019 Going Postal 2956 Comments

Private Investigator Joe Malone has discovered a body, crushed in the basement of his office building. The body is identifiable as missing Lord, Politician. Campaigner, remainer and husband, Marmon-Herrington Bixby. As Malone pondered what to [more…]

Cooking

Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 6

27th August 2019 James Dalton 3334 Comments

‘Think Global Act Local’ was the mantra of the Green movement in the 1980’s Jonathon Porritt era before the greens lost their way and deserted science. In the 70’s and 80’s there was cohesive thinking [more…]

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Bollocks to Krauts! Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl

26th August 2019 Going Postal 2585 Comments

“Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl” was inspired by a story which circulated within dissidents circles when I was a student in Moscow in the early 1980s: several villages in Siberia were so remote [more…]

Economics

“More of the same” at the ECB increases gold’s appeal

26th August 2019 Going Postal 3189 Comments

“The intellectual leaders of the peoples have produced and propagated the fallacies which are on the point of destroying liberty and Western civilization.” Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos   It took multiple meetings and over 50 hours [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Part 8

25th August 2019 Blown Periphery 2387 Comments

Ash Shaddadi, the Syrian Governorate of Al Hasakha, December 2017 Darkness was falling and they could smell the petro-chemicals from the oilfields out to the west. The winds had shifted round from the north and [more…]

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