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Month: December 2024

20th Century

Christmas Past

21st December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2300 Comments

If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]

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A Price Too High, Chapter Two

21st December 2024 Going Postal 2845 Comments

Marius Phoned on Thursday afternoon, Dave signed out of his Uber app and drove over to Birmingham. Under his seat was the cash to reimburse the cost of the guns. They met at an old [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1968

20th December 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2676 Comments

Featured song: The Bee Gees – Words This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]

Authoritarianism

Downfall

20th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2431 Comments

As we reach the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, the tectonic plates of global power play shift once again. Syria? Wait for it. First, the world of retail is shaken to [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Six

19th December 2024 Going Postal 2380 Comments

On the train back to Potters Bar Jinnie suggested that Penny, Dan and Irena should come over for dinner that evening then Irena could meet the twins again. As it was Friday the twins weren’t [more…]

Politics

They’re back (but they never went away)…………

19th December 2024 Going Postal 2273 Comments

It feels like only yesterday when the global elite nearly succeeded in dragging us into their dystopian narrative, all for the sake of a so-called health emergency that was all about about power rather than [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four

18th December 2024 Going Postal 1956 Comments

In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]

Business

The Adani Group and India’s Spheres of Influence

18th December 2024 Going Postal 2789 Comments

Is the Adani Group Narendra Modi’s Trojan Horse in India’s efforts to counterbalance China’s expanding influence across the Indian Ocean and Africa​? December 12, 2024 The issues surrounding the Adani Group and its deals in [more…]

20th Century

Publicans Win Diploma For Bar Etiquette

17th December 2024 Going Postal 1736 Comments

One secret: No politics As fine a figure of an English landlord (he tips the scale at nearly 17 stones) as ever drew a pint of old-and-mild is Mr. Alfred Leslie Farrell, “mine host” of [more…]

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