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Month: August 2024

Authoritarianism

Riot Predicting And All That………..

22nd August 2024 Going Postal 0

In regard to the unrest (riots) that have rocked the UK recently. The proximate cause for the riots was the murder spree by the Welsh-born child of Rwandan immigrants, who – at present allegedly – [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part One

21st August 2024 Going Postal 0

As well as researching “Desert Mysteries” and the exploits of the “Desert Fox”, amongst my other hobbies is the construction of scale model dioramas. For a diorama, I design and build by hand the baseboard, [more…]

21st Century

Last Bastion of the Colonial Home Guard

21st August 2024 Going Postal 0

The Home Guard is institutionalised at the National Police Service and is evident in the lives that have been claimed through state-sanctioned violence during the ongoing Gen Z protests. 14 August 2024 According to a [more…]

Authoritarianism

A View From (The Tap Just By) The Greenhouse; Show Edition (Can I Still Say That)?

20th August 2024 Colin Cross 0

The middle of August and, as I type, we have 30mph winds and rain that could penetrate plate armour. I’m putting it down to “Global Warming”, I’m sure it has little or nothing to do [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya 1955, Part Nine

20th August 2024 Going Postal 0

On his way home from reporting on Kenya for the Birmingham Mail in 1955, my uncle John Alldridge filed this report from Uganda – Jerry F Colour problem in reverse Almost 50 years ago another [more…]

Arts

Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann

19th August 2024 Going Postal 0

The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]

Conservatives

The Tory leadership farce

19th August 2024 well_chuffed 0

The latest news from the Tory leadership campaign is firstly the six candidates have all decided there is no place in the Party for Nigel Farage. Even the hindu dwarf said it was a broad [more…]

20th Century

Borneo 1962 – 1966

18th August 2024 Going Postal 0

Borneo (Kalimantan to the Indonesians) is the second biggest island in the world. Along its northern coast, one third of the island lay three British dependant territories – the colony of Sarawak, the Sultanate of [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Five

18th August 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning and hello from a not very happy cat this morning. I thought that Legohead was supposed to be going off on his holidays and I was going to have a nice peaceful [more…]

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