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Month: January 2022

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Four

28th January 2022 Going Postal 2222 Comments

Jinnie’s newly enlarged team got down to work immediately, hitting the phones to the contacts. The military were as helpful as the SIS hadn’t been and a kick-off meeting was arranged for 4 o’clock in [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

28th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 1737 Comments

Question Time 27th January 2022 The Panel: James Heappey (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Liam Halligan (GB News) Alison Phillips (Daily Mirror) Kavita Oberoi (Sales Rep) Venue: Morecambe “Mr Worth-Saying, you told the Puffins that QT [more…]

19th Century

Crimean War, Part Seven

27th January 2022 Going Postal 3802 Comments

In 1954, as the centenary of the end of the Crimean War approached, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of articles for the Manchester Evening News which vividly described that campaign. In this article, [more…]

Politics

War Never Works

27th January 2022 Godfrey Bloom 4326 Comments

Perhaps I should say in W S Gilbert style ‘well hardly ever’. When struggling for a theme for my graduation strategy thesis for at the Royal College of Defence Studies I felt a suitable title [more…]

Arts

Fish & Ships

26th January 2022 SharpieType301 3686 Comments

I’d like to begin by introducing you to a rather special lady. She was born in February 1957, the first of twelve sisters. A real local lass, she lived and worked from the Humber all [more…]

Authoritarianism

Mask Mongs

26th January 2022 Going Postal 4210 Comments

Masks, masks, everywhere and all the hubs did shrink. Everywhere I go there are masked goons, in cars alone, on pavements alone, wearing them in all sorts of places where they are not required by [more…]

Culture

View From The Greenhouse (Envies Of The World, Innit?)

25th January 2022 Colin Cross 3165 Comments

Unless you’re a strawberry obsessive then the first part of this installment of my bi-weekly greenhouse diary ramblings is going to be incredibly boring. Thankfully, as so few even bother to read the articles, much [more…]

Health

Mass (Mis)(In)Formation Psychosis

25th January 2022 Lugosi 4811 Comments

Immodium is MFP. MFP has come to consciousness out of Covid and the idea that the “Masses” are willing to sacrifice freedoms to get the cure and undertake behaviours to save their lives. MFP existed [more…]

Arts

Another Caribbean Christmas, Part Two

24th January 2022 Going Postal 3079 Comments

Day One – Christmas Eve I woke up at 04:15, before my alarm went off, with my stomach turning over, I was either worried about the antigen test and failing at the last hurdle, or [more…]

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