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Month: February 2021

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 9

28th February 2021 Blown Periphery 0

January 1997 – Salisbury Plain It could have been anywhere, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, but this time it was Wiltshire. The C130 rattled the window frames as it passed 200 feet above the houses below, leaving [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty Two

28th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday At breakfast this morning Bozzie was still ecstatic from hitting the 15,000,000 vaccination target with yesterday’s announced numbers. He keeps muttering about doubters and distracters. He was asked why in some places they had [more…]

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Book Review

Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 5

28th February 2021 1642again 0

The Corcyran Stasis as a Template for Civil Strife and War While one might characterise the main theme of Thucydides’ work to be the gradual breakdown of Athens, its constitution, character, morality and eventually its [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Forty Four

27th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

We are together alone on the floor of Natasha’s Dolphin Square apartment. She has closed the curtains and sat on the opera glasses to attract my full attention. In doing so, she ended our nighttime [more…]

America

FBI, DOJ. Arrest John Kerry Now! Charge Treason

27th February 2021 Fred Brownbill 0

Two of the new Biden Administration among other Democrats had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during the Trump Presidency, undermining the foreign policy agenda that was put in place by the legitimate administration [more…]

Hobbies

Crossword No. 159

27th February 2021 Going Postal 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, War Crimes or The Unseen Path. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980

26th February 2021 Philthetestmanager 0

Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven

26th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

26th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 25th February 2021 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Tony Danker (Confederation of British Industry) Jeremy King (Restauranter) Joanne Grady (University and College Union) Venue: London The first question concerned contradictions within [more…]

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