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Month: April 2022

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three – Chapter Sixteen

22nd April 2022 Going Postal 2136 Comments

Jinnie was anxious to settle Willie into British life so while he unpacked and put away his new clothes in his new bedroom she wondered if a typically British dinner would go down well. She [more…]

20th Century

The Board Now Departing

22nd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 2235 Comments

The truck now leaving a back lane behind your local railway station may well be removing the mangled remains of a giant departure board. Why so? Because they’re being replaced, and by creatures not even [more…]

20th Century

The Woman Reporter, Part One

21st April 2022 Going Postal 3165 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) No Half-Way For Ladies When I got my first job on a newspaper twenty-five years ago [more…]

Politics

Ukrainian War Eagles

21st April 2022 Going Postal 3618 Comments

Two War Eagles, Paula Dobriansky and Richard Levine, emphatically argue in today’s Wall Street Journal the reasons NATO (and therefore the U.S.) must wage an active direct proxy war against Russia: We cannot pretend a [more…]

Arts

A Life in Three Honks, Honk the Second

20th April 2022 Roger Ackroyd 2649 Comments

At the end of part 1 we left our intrepid teenager entering the portals of the famous Foyles Bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, London. Founded in 1903 initially selling secondhand books from a small [more…]

Economics

Russia’s “gold peg”: Lessons for Western investors

20th April 2022 Going Postal 3037 Comments

It is undeniable that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has polarized Western societies to an extent unseen in decades in any other foreign conflict. For over a month, we have been bombarded unceasingly by all [more…]

Arts

A Postcard Frae Glesgae

19th April 2022 Colin Cross 2531 Comments

Over the last few weeks I’ve had occasion to visit Glasgow on two occasions, one for an overnight stay and the second time primarily to visit Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery. The happy circumstance of my [more…]

Politics

Доверя́й, но проверя́й – Trust, but Verify

19th April 2022 Going Postal 3229 Comments

“Trust, but verify, is a well-known saying loved by Ronald Reagan, who was taught it by the writer Suzanne Massey. However, not many people are aware that it came into the English language directly from [more…]

Arts

Lee Brilleaux: rock n roll gentleman, by Zoë Howe

18th April 2022 Going Postal 2743 Comments

The time is the mid 1970s. The place is Canvey Island. The band is the dynamic “proto-punk” outfit known as Dr Feelgood. (I put inverted commas round proto-punk because, although that is what some music [more…]

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