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Month: January 2021

Authoritarianism

“It’s for your own safety”

6th January 2021 Going Postal 6165 Comments

Saddam Hussain Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Boris Johnson The more pedantic sections of our grand old society will point out that 2020 was not the start of a new decade, rather, the end [more…]

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Biography

Sailing my life away, part 5

5th January 2021 Ancient Mariner 4074 Comments

Unless one is rich enough to have a yacht custom-built to one’s own specification, which I certainly was not, one has to choose a “Production” model in much the same way most people buy motor [more…]

Book Review

Book review: Corona False Alarm?

5th January 2021 Martin Mezger 4685 Comments

“Corona False Alarm? Facts & Figures”, Dr Karina Reiss & Dr Sucharit Bhakdi. This very timely work was first published in German at the end of June 2020.  The English translation, published in September of [more…]

Animals

Evolution of a Puffin

4th January 2021 SharpieType301 5219 Comments

Towards the end of November in this crazily craptacular COVID-19-filled year, I had a chat about fishing flies in the comments no-one reads with a fellow Postaller. More to the point, a natter about whether [more…]

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Business

An Open Letter to the Chancellor

4th January 2021 Godfrey Bloom 4403 Comments

Dear Chancellor, Fiscal Discipline The government reaction to the Coronavirus pandemic hypothesis has bordered on hysterical, but we are where we are & the unprecedented national debt is estimated at over two & one half [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 1

3rd January 2021 Blown Periphery 3770 Comments

This is the final part of the War Crimes Trilogy. The protagonists will go on to a well-deserved retirement, some having made it, while others haven’t. All people who have served on active service and [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Four

3rd January 2021 Going Postal 4032 Comments

Monday Hello everyone, what a horrible morning for the shortest day of the year. Well, not really the shortest as they all have 24 hours, but the shortest daylight hours. Miserable and wet but not [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Thirty Six

2nd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 3655 Comments

We’re in an underground comms room in Singapore, suffering a bit of low key blackmail as an old contact, Tammy, on the New York side of a cell-phone loudspeaker, wants to know something, before she’ll [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 151

2nd January 2021 Going Postal 3943 Comments

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 of a GP mug. 150 – Captain [more…]

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