Arts
The Great Escape, Part One
Facts: Have been not reading the comments on here for some time; ignored the MSM (for facts) for longer. Have a house in England and, thanks to a modest inheritance from my wife’s uncle, we [more…]
Month: June 2020
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 4th June 2020 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) Hugh Pennington (Microbiologist) Venue: Southampton Medical school tutor to Professor Van-Tan, the patient zero who gave Steven [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Southampton. On the panel are: Nadhim Zahawi MP, minister for Business and Industry, Conservative; David Lammy MP, shadow Justice secretary, [more…]
Animals
Meet Phoenix, the Egyptian Duprasi
Reaching the ripe old age of 61, being a bit of a hermit and having semi retired, I decided to act upon my love of small animals and adopt a hamster. Having looked after hamsters [more…]
Arts
Taiwan’s Tiananmen
In early 2014, I was living in Taiwan. The year is remembered there (and nowhere else) for the so-called “Sunflower” upheaval, an ultimately unsuccessful student protest that was in many ways a precursor to the [more…]
America
Book Review: Kick by Paula Byrne
The subtitle of this book is ‘the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister, and the heir to Chatsworth’, although personally I think the title ‘forgotten sister’ might be more accurately applied to JFK’s [more…]
Arts
Experiments with Bitcoin
I have never been a fan of Bitcoin (“BTC”). Of course you would have made a fortune if you had purchased some back when it was first invented in 2008 and released as open source [more…]
Arts
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Four
Lady Vanessa stepped through the metal detector. Lord Bixby followed and passed freely through the metal detector. The security guard signalled for me to go through next. As expected, as I stepped forward the bleep [more…]