Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Thirty-Three
The door opened and a big man in a bad suit came out. “Hello Leo,” I said to him. “Well, well,” he said back. “Joe Malone. I thought I told you not to come round [more…]
Month: October 2019
Arts
National Trust AGM 2019 – The Non-Woke Block Vote
I can understand those who walk away from bodies like the National Trust once it become woke, yet when these things happen there is rarely enough of an exodus to drag the organisation back to [more…]
Authoritarianism
Climate Change Protests
Yet another climate protest against our use of fossil fuels. Spokes-persons berate us over air-waves driven by generated electricity carried by steel pylons cemented into the ground. They sit in a studio with its array [more…]
Business
Every Folly Has Its Consequences
The great Spanish master, Francisco Goya, expressed it concisely: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”. Today, wherever you look, insanity masquerades as rational thought. Lunatics flout their blatantly potty views as if they carried the [more…]
Mathematics
Commutativity
A binary operation is said to commute if the order of the operands does not alter the result. In the real numbers, , the following commutative laws hold : for all for all Although these [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Part 13
The Syrian Governorate Raqqa, December 2017. The city of Ar Raqqa Scheherazade Wherever she went in Raqqa, Ripley was constantly followed and almost inundated by children. She had made a mistake, even though she had [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Six
Monday Forget all this Brexit stuff, the big news of the weekend was that it looks like Bozzie Bear and the Little Otter have adopted a rescue dog. Not any old rescue dog, but a [more…]
Arts
June Summer 2019 Competition Results
Congratulations to the winners. Get in touch with your details to claim your prizes. 1. Roger Ackroyd 1. Blown Periphery 2. Emile Woolf 2. Phil the test manager 2. Tachybaptus 3. Bill Quango MP 3. [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Lille, Part 33
There was a game that we used to play in the office called, ‘Would / Wouldn’t’. Every adult female would be attached either of the monikers. We even had cards made that we could hold up as [more…]