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Month: March 2023

Arts

Classic Album Review: Frank Zappa – Hot Rats

31st March 2023 Going Postal 2441 Comments

Hot rats, released in 1969, is the second solo album by the late American musician, composer and band leader, Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993). It was the first album he released [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

31st March 2023 Always Worth Saying 2378 Comments

Question Time 30th March 2023 The Panel: Andrew Murrison (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Helen Morgan (LibDem) Danny Sriskandarajah (Oxfam) Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) That’s nutty Bristol which should be twinned with other progressive oddities such [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Five

30th March 2023 Going Postal 2447 Comments

The metallic black Lexus ES was beautiful and Jinnie thought it looked just perfect for a managing director. The salesman from the garage showed her all the electronic wizardry but there was so much to [more…]

America

Letter From Stafford, Three

30th March 2023 Going Postal 2630 Comments

I don’t get out as much any more now that I’ve learned to do my work online. Slouching behind a steering wheel 200 miles a day has been replaced by slouching at a screen waiting [more…]

America

What’s it all about, Part 1

29th March 2023 Going Postal 2349 Comments

OK Puffins Hands up those who think the “pandemic” was used as cover for a financial/energy crisis. Well, those 97% who’ve donned their tin foil hats & agreed with the premise might also ask themselves [more…]

20th Century

Day of the Rangers

29th March 2023 Going Postal 3157 Comments

Independent journalists and non-UN aid workers had already done enough to discredit the approach taken under Operation Restore Hope and so were treated by the US-UN as “the enemy”. Throughout Somalia’s “peacekeeping war”, independent journalists [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Eid Mubarak, Suckers

28th March 2023 Colin Cross 2304 Comments

Along with every other part of the country we’ve had a bit of “Man Climate Change Made Warming Cool Global” weather over the last couple of weeks or so, (more of which later) which has [more…]

Communism

Role Reversal

28th March 2023 Patrick Barron 2852 Comments

Starting around 1989 the Soviet empire started to crumble. The time period between the forming of NATO in the late 1940’s and the retreat of Russia from Eastern Europe and the eventual collapse of communism [more…]

Book Review

The Young H.G. Wells by Clare Tomalin. Viking: 2021

27th March 2023 Going Postal 2429 Comments

I’m sure many people are familiar with H.G. Wells’ science fiction output, with novels like The War of the Worlds, The Shape of Things to Come, The Invisible Man, The Sleeper Awakes (which some have [more…]

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