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Month: December 2019

Arts

Choons of the Season

31st December 2019 Going Postal 0

Welcome. Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy.  Me, I’m nursing a Boulevardier.  It’s a strapped on Negroni : ditch the gin for bourbon.  One ounce Bourbon, One ounce Sweet Vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on [more…]

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Andrew Bailey, a WWI General for a WWII Battle

31st December 2019 Godfrey Bloom 0

We must be cautious how we welcome Andrew Bailey, Mark Carney was certainly the worst governor in post war history so CoCo the clown would look good initially. He has to date been what a [more…]

Book Review

Book Review: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Identity and Race by Douglas Murray

30th December 2019 The Black Swan 0

Published by Bloomsbury Continuum, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2019) ISBN 978-1-4729-5995-9 In the follow up to his book bestselling book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray examines the matter of identity politics. [more…]

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Arts

My adventure in A & E

30th December 2019 Going Postal 0

I blame Tom Pudding’s excellent article on his experiences in an NHS hospital for penning this report on my adventure in A & E this June. It started with me having what is called a [more…]

Fiction

The Rendezvous

29th December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]

Christianity

Shepherds, Kings and Angels – Some Thoughts on the Nativity

29th December 2019 1642again 0

We are all familiar with the ingredients of the nativity story: the birth of Jesus foretold. The Census of Caesar Augustus (tax censuses were a regular feature of the Roman Empire and a Quirinus was [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

28th December 2019 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time Christmas Special Panel: God The Devil Faith Reason Venue: A Hall Near You An hour of existential debate between divinities and personified human characteristics introduced by Fiona Bruce. The first question concerned important [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 98

28th December 2019 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. 97 – b-bob. Answers with next week’s [more…]

Conservatives

Where are we now? – A festive Summary

27th December 2019 Emile Woolf 0

There were dire warnings….. Over and over, we heard it. We heard it from the great and good, all authoritative sources with impeccable credentials. Carney at the Bank of England, Chancellors of the Exchequer (present [more…]

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