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Month: January 2021

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

28th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from around the UK. On the panel are: Gillian Keegan MP, minister for apprenticeships and skills, Conservative, Kate Green MP, shadow [more…]

20th Century

History ‘O’ Level Project

28th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Back in 1980 I was in the last year of my ‘O’ levels , one of which was History, part of the syllabus was to write a project on one of a variety of topics. [more…]

Arts

Film Review: The Tourist

28th January 2021 Going Postal 0

It all started, they say, when he met a woman……….. Angeline Jolie plays Elise, the extraordinary and captivating girlfriend of Alexander Pearce, a criminal who has sensibly disappeared after embezzling $2 billion from a mobster. [more…]

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Arts

Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 2

27th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Je vous parle d’un temps Que les moins de vingt ans Ne peuvent pas connaître …..  C’est là qu’on s’est connu Moi qui criait famine Et toi qui posais nue….. Charles Aznavour – La Bohème [more…]

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Arts

Society & Modern Morality

27th January 2021 Godfrey Bloom 0

Modern society never it seems these days platforms morality debates. BBC’s Moral Maze went woke decades ago which negates the whole point of a philosophical discussion. I list here a number of moral questions on [more…]

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20th Century

The Shetland Bus

26th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Hopefully no Puffins are standing in horizontal driving rain, on a lonely Shetland road waiting for this Bus. If they are, I have some bad news for them, this particular Bus was the name given [more…]

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America

Thoughts on the Trump Presidency

26th January 2021 Going Postal 0

As Donald Trump leaves office, I like many others I will be deflated. But most of all I will feel cheated, duped. Remember how he posed in the early days, a red-hatted sheriff who was [more…]

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Hobbies

9. Shunting again

25th January 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

Once more a piece about Trains while the world of news whirls around us like a Tornado… I had a less active week this week, having been distracted by the installation of Telegram and the [more…]

Health

A Brief Face To Face With Death

25th January 2021 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

I was bored the other day and decided to download the Office of National Statistics Weekly Death data for England and Wales for the last 5 years (as you do).  It can be found here [more…]

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