Elections
Polling Predictions #10
If it’s Sunday it must be Opinion Polls time again. As a quick aside to start with there have been quite a few mentions of MPs being suspended this week. The Grauniad even gave a [more…]
Month: April 2024
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-One
Monday Good morning readers it’s a rather pleasant morning mild and a bit of sunshine but it’s going to rain again later. I enjoyed my trip down the garden in the sun and found a [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Four
Having enough in common with Peter Hitchens to engage in correspondence, I put pen to paper after spying an entertaining railway-orientated thread on his X account. Eventually, he wrote back. Or rather, eventually I found [more…]
Literature
Along the Saxon Shore
When I lived in London in the early 2000s, I explored all the surrounding counties by bike. Of them, Essex was perhaps the most interesting. It suffers from more negative stereotyping than any other county [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Welcome To Our New Direction
Greetings pop pickers. It’s Tay Tay Time! Welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly dibbers in the gently sloped gardens of musical magnificence. This week, as we mark International Non-Binary Parents’ [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 18th April 2024 The Panel: David TC Davies (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Carla Denyer (Green) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Venue: Buxton A QT regular, Bridget Phillipson (not her real name, Bridget Maeve Dimery) [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story- Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Six
Jinnie was excited and happy, the invitation to tea at the Palace had arrived, not just she and the twins were invited, so was Izzy. Kate has scribbled on the bottom of the printed invitation, [more…]
Economics
Thinking Properly About Public Welfare
The debate over publicly funded welfare can be solved very quickly. There is constant demand for more welfare: more money for longer periods of time for those out of work, more money for the handicapped [more…]
20th Century
The Death Railway, Part Three
Railway Construction Initially, the railway construction schedule allowed reasonable working conditions to be imposed on the POWs who, at that time, formed the majority of the skilled workforce. This combined with the fact that the [more…]