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Month: December 2024

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-One

8th December 2024 Going Postal 2687 Comments

Monday Good morning all, it was raining when I first woke up, but now I have had my Felix the sun is out and the sky is blue. Legohead had a ‘summit meeting’ in No. [more…]

19th Century

Enemies Within: Mouchard!

7th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2624 Comments

Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]

Fiction

Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Twenty-One

7th December 2024 Going Postal 2676 Comments

In the bar, Dave sat with a brandy, he was mulling over the conversation, he tried to think if he had missed anything, he was sure he hadn’t. He climbed off the barstool, said goodnight [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – 1967

6th December 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2491 Comments

Featured song: The Monkees 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. One article for [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

6th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 2223 Comments

Question Time 5th December 2024 The Panel: Jacqui Smith (Labour) Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative) Nigel Farage (Reform UK) Alastair Campbell (Author & Podcaster) Venue: Lincoln We can vote them out but we can’t get rid of [more…]

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

5th December 2024 Going Postal 2272 Comments

Paolo hadn’t been surprised when Jinnie had told him she was undertaking a mission on behalf of the Italian government. He simply nodded and said he was only surprised it hadn’t been sooner, adding that [more…]

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Book Review: The Age of Debt Bubbles by Max Rangeley

5th December 2024 Patrick Barron 3362 Comments

In this series of “Professional Practice in Governance and Professional Organizations” by Springer Nature, the most prestigious academic publisher in Europe if not the world, editor Max Rangeley has enlisted actual practitioners to explain how [more…]

Politics

Gota Fria

4th December 2024 well_chuffed 2201 Comments

The title is Spanish for “cold drops”. This is the name given to autumn deluges, at least where I lived in Spain for about 7 years, only about 100km from Valencia. There are only a [more…]

20th Century

What’s in a Street Name?

4th December 2024 Going Postal 3166 Comments

Do the street names in Kenya’s cities still serve the purpose of memorialising those who have made significant contributions to our country? November 22, 2024 I’m a flâneur. Every time I visit a new town, [more…]

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