20th Century
My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Seven –AC/DC
After 60 proper legends of pop (OK, you may have thought that some were a bit iffy), it is now time for my Top 20 Leg Ends of pop. These are those groups or artists [more…]
Month: November 2022
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Four – Chapter Sixteen
Jinnie had a chat with some of her fellow directors to try to find out what they thought about bringing some of the work currently done by the accountants in-house. Jinnie made the point that [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd November 2022 The Panel: Chris Philp (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Stuart Rose (Asda) Zany Minton Beddoes (The Economist) George the Poet (Spoken-word artist) Venue: Horsham George The Poet, not his real name, [more…]
Human Interest
It All Makes Work
My ‘Phone Line Dies It was on Saturday morning that my friend tried to ‘phone me to tell me that the chimney specialist would be along to fit a cowl to my chimney within the [more…]
Economics
OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Thirteen
Introduction If we wish to be allowed to live as we see fit, it is accepted that we must be responsible for our own failures too when they occur. And obviously that means we should [more…]
20th Century
The Desert War – November 1942
November would see the assault at El Alamein succeed and the Axis would now be on the back foot as they withdrew towards Tripoli and eventually Tunisia. On the 16th November the Stoneage convoy of [more…]
Arts
Feck yoos Disqus censor algorithm
There’s an old online adage: if you can’t beat the censorial posting comments algorithm, make it an article. And so I will. Twice censored in the comments that nobody reads. Thanks, Disqus codebase. A lazy [more…]
Drinking
Life Not In The (Fridge &) Freezer
Introduction This is an occasional series with no set timing, as and when it makes sense to post an update. Could in fact be the only article. It is more an intellectual exercise than being [more…]
Fiction
The Zionist lobby in the USA is no myth
Uncle Benny has got one! Many years ago I was invited by two well-known MP’s to write some articles on the subject of Israel. To be frank I screwed up the relationship. I guess I [more…]