20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1971
Featured song: Slade: Cuz I Love You 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…]
Month: January 2025
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th January 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Kieran Mullan (Conservative) Helen Morgan (LibDem) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Alison Phillips (Journalist) Venue: Melton Mowbray They’re doing me out of a job. Early to [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-One
Brooke, Jack, Molly and Brian walked out of the office of Lloyd, Franks and Deschamps, solicitors, and paused on the pavement before shaking hands and high-fiving each other. Bearcat Food Inc. was now up and [more…]
21st Century
Biden – An appraisal 2021-2025
Joe Biden’s presidency ended on January 20, 2025. There is already an orchestrated legacy media campaign to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues, but surely this will fail – Biden perpetually trampled his oath [more…]
Arts
Holiday
Yet Another Caribbean Christmas And New Year, Part Two
Tuesday 24th December (Christmas Eve) – St Kitts Breakfast today was in the MDR as my excursion wasn’t due to leave until 09:30 I was in no hurry. Once again it was a sharing table [more…]
Hobbies
Yorkshire Coalfield
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…]
America
He’s Baaack
So………… 20/1/25 was Trump’s inauguration. It was also likely his apotheosis – the vertex of Trumpness, the culmination of years of struggle. It’s hard to believe it could get any more glorious for him than [more…]
19th Century
Bullet Points
Every once in a while I get involved with some project or other relating to my hobby of collecting and shooting antique firearms and while individually these may not justify a separate GP article, I [more…]