Hobbies
Crossword No. 141
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 week’s winner. 140 – Bluepeter. Answers with next week’s [more…]
Month: October 2020
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1962
Featured Album: The Beach Boys – Surfin Safari Before I start with the article, I would like to raise a concern. Over the last few weeks there have been several comments about how bad some [more…]
20th Century
A Barren Shore, Part Two
An even greater slab of armour plate than the one we had stumbled across decades before, stood upright blankly showing its wounds, punched through and scored by shot, rusty red, the memorial to those Finns [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 22th October 2020 Panel: Nicky Morgan (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Anne Longfield (Children’s Commissioner) Stephen Fitzpatrick (Businessman) Joseph Stiglitz (Ecconomist) Venue: Sedgefield Question Time continues to struggle to find its bearings in black [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of the same old faces, same old propaganda. On the panel are: Nicky Morgan, former secretary of state for Education and former culture secretary, [more…]
Arts
The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part One
Has there ever been a stranger accession to power in a western democracy recently than that of Emmanuel Macron? In 2014, he rose from nowhere to Minister of the Economy and then in 2017 was [more…]
America
US election: Red flags for investors, part 1
The implications of the upcoming US election are obviously very important not just for American citizens, investors and ordinary savers, but for the rest of the world too. Economic, fiscal and monetary developments and trends [more…]
Arts
Art in Cocklecarrot (Not Cocklecroft) Towers, Part Six
“Come and get me, copper!” East End saying Dark doings in murky waters open Part 6. Specifically- The attempted theft of dozens of priceless artworks from under my very nose! I regret to advise Mrs [more…]
Philosophy