July, 2021 | Going Postal

Book Review: Imagining A Murder

1st July 2021 Going Postal 0

Once Upon a Moonlit Provence Night . . . author David Sedgwick reveals why he just had to write the story of a brutal, unsolved 1973 murder. Hands up who remembers the name Jeremy Cartland? [more…]

Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

“Our” NHS

1st July 2021 Rookwood 0

Of all the institutions I have observed and indeed, commented on, the NHS is probably the most frustrating one to portray in simple terms. The UK’s largest employer, with approaching 1.6 million staff, it dwarfs [more…]

Democracy 101

30th June 2018 0

I’ve been thinking. The Referendum result was a one-off, a gaggle of disparate groups that came together as a citizen army to win what the Remainers thought was an unwinnable fight. And we won! The [more...]
GB News Review

30th July 2021 0

GB News 29th July 2021 Present: Catherine (Travel expert) Laurence Fox (Political activist) Angela Levin (Royal watcher) Dave Rogers (Olympic correspondent) Venue: Brazier & Muroki We join the programme with regular presenter Mercy Muroki and [more...]
Parrots

27th April 2018 0

Sixty Million Years Ago You Would’ve Been Their Lunch Ever since we met my wife had wanted a parrot. Personally I had zero interest in them but she had kept a Cockatiel for many years [more...]
Going Postal with Question Time

3rd December 2020 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Bath. Same old faces, same tired programming. On the panel are: Michelle Donelan MP, minister for universities, Conservative, Sarah Jones [more...]
Postcard from Bloodstock 2018

26th July 2019 0

I know, I know – in two months you’ll be seeing another piece from me. ‘Postcard from Bloodstock 2019’. What can I say, this is one of those posts I had been meaning to finish [more...]