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Month: October 2024

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 1

4th October 2024 Going Postal 2074 Comments

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

4th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 2170 Comments

Question Time 3rd October 2024 The Panel: Ian Murray (Labour) Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Wendy Chamberlain (LibDems) Jenny Gilruth (SNP) Ian MacWhirter (Author & Coulmnist) Venue: Dundee Last time, QT Review HQ introduced Puffins to the [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Fifteen

3rd October 2024 Going Postal 2065 Comments

Jinnie’s sudden increase in wealth had made her and Paolo review a few things. Paolo wanted a new car and suggested that Jinnie should also get one. However, she had decided that while DKL supplied [more…]

Communism

The illusion of choice: Democracy as the greatest show on earth

3rd October 2024 Going Postal 2318 Comments

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. Hans-Hermann Hoppe As individual citizens, as voters and taxpayers we have been so deeply, so [more…]

21st Century

A Mushroom May Yet Bloom

2nd October 2024 Going Postal 2487 Comments

In a previous post, “Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?” I postulated that Iran’s recent swarm attack might not be a simple, if potentially deadly, diplomatic slap at Israel for killing one of their progeny’s leaders [more…]

21st Century

Macron & Ruto

2nd October 2024 Going Postal 2625 Comments

The parallels between France and Kenya, and between Emmanuel Macron and William Ruto, lead us to question what fundamental trends brought both countries to experience quite similar crises, to which both leaders responded in a [more…]

Culture

A View From The Greenhouse, Edizione Apulia; Seconda Parte (All In It Together)

1st October 2024 Colin Cross 2625 Comments

The hotel outside Matera is new and consequently very modern, the food in the restaurant was pretty good, but the waiting staff knew we were a tour party and treated us accordingly. Not rude, as [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Six – Naples

1st October 2024 Going Postal 2587 Comments

Like many another Mediterranean city Naples looks better seen from a distance. Approached from the sea, preferably at first light, its beauty takes your breath away. Close up too much of it is an offence [more…]

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