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Month: May 2024

21st Century

Is Ukraine Starting to Back Terrorism Around the World?

22nd May 2024 Going Postal 3186 Comments

By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, suffered an assassination attempt on May 15th. The politician was [more…]

Hobbies

A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part One

21st May 2024 Going Postal 1705 Comments

In hindsight, it was a major life change. Hard to believe that it is now almost 30 years ago – the summer of 1994.  Leaving a management job with a FTSE 100 British company – [more…]

20th Century

American Journey 1952, Part Two – Providence

21st May 2024 Going Postal 2197 Comments

Over the main entrance of Providence City Hall is a bust of one Roger Williams, the founder of this city. You can see another representation of him in Roger Williams Park, where yesterday the youth [more…]

Fiction

The Dragon Of Peabody Manor

20th May 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 1765 Comments

It was a dark and stormy night, suddenly there was a knock at the door. Well that’s how childish stories usually start. For our little podcast I’ll try and go more silly. Welcome to Peabody [more…]

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Ultra Vires

20th May 2024 Going Postal 2087 Comments

Back in the early 1990’s I was working for Girobank, at that time still part of the Post Office.  Looking back it was a really interesting place to work, still with many civil service customs.  [more…]

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Polling Predictions #14

19th May 2024 well_chuffed 1772 Comments

Well well well, looks like we won’t be seeing a GE before October according to the hindu dwarf. He really is doing a Mr Micawber the little scrote. On the other hand there is some [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred And Thirty-Five

19th May 2024 Going Postal 1960 Comments

Monday Good morning my friends and welcome to another wet bank holiday. It’s lovely and quiet in No 10 this morning, there is only a skeleton staff in today and they didn’t seem to be [more…]

20th Century

Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Five

18th May 2024 Always Worth Saying 1790 Comments

I’ve been following Daily Mail columnist and author Peter Hitchens – literally. The surprise being we only recently fell into correspondence. Both of us are keen on railways and church, enjoyed minor public school and [more…]

Hobbies

Return to Brigg

18th May 2024 Joe Slater 1838 Comments

A few weeks back I did a piece on the spectacular Alishan mountain line in Taiwan. One day, I might do something on the Gono line around the wild, craggy northwest coast of Honshu. Or [more…]

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