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Month: September 2024

21st Century

Why did Ukraine invade and occupy a part of the Kursk Oblast?

26th September 2024 Going Postal 0

As we all know ‘the first casualty of war is the truth’. That short sentence sums it up neatly. Deception and propaganda are legitimate aspect of warfare. Both sides of a conflict try, in the [more…]

21st Century

Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?

25th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Underneath the appropriate concern of conventional airborne attacks on Israel by Iran and its progeny lies an anxious appraisal of a potential nuclear attack. That fear is the basic driving force of U.S. policy towards [more…]

21st Century

Teargassing a Baddie

25th September 2024 Going Postal 0

September, 2024 The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action. If you were to ask 16-year-old me whether a day would come when I’d [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Five – Vienna

24th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Where a smile masks a city’s sorrow This a Tale from the Vienna Woods. A Tale told on a spring morning when, from the white cafe tables perched high on the Kahlenberg, the Danube really [more…]

Authoritarianism

Drunk on Power

24th September 2024 well_chuffed 0

Keith has been taking steps, rather large ones, as he attempts to implement the UK equivalent of the former German Democratic Republic in this once green and pleasant land. Much of what follows comes under [more…]

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Lofty Ambitions

23rd September 2024 John Booth 0

This is a tale of woe, a tale of lack of planning, of insufficient forethought and carelessness.  It’s also a warning to all Puffins not to make the same mistakes as I have made, to [more…]

Communism

Where will the money come from?

23rd September 2024 Emile Woolf 0

There’s an old Jewish joke about the elderly family patriarch whose grief-stricken family is tearfully assembled around his deathbed to pay their last respects . “Is Taubele there?” he mutters; “Yes, Papa, I’m here” comes [more…]

Hobbies

In the Fens

22nd September 2024 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty

22nd September 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, well it was a little chilly early this morning and the thermostat turned the heating on so there was a nice warm radiator when I woke up. So tomorrow nearly 2,000 [more…]

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