Arts
The History of Pop Music – 1973
Featured song: 10cc – Rubber Bullets 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 [more…]
Month: February 2025
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th February 2025 The Panel: Luke Pollard (Labour) Alicia Kearns (Conservative) John Cauldwell (Entrepreneur) Maya Goodfellow (Academic) Freddie Gray (Journalist) Venue: Derby This week’s ‘live on iPlayer’ QT kicked off late owing to [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Five
Jinnie parked at Maple House and, before locking her new Lexus LM, checked her watch. She was not going to be late; it certainly wouldn’t do being late on the first day of trading of [more…]
21st Century
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part One
My previous series of articles (“Letters from Afrika”) was based on the “FeldPost” letters from Hans Walden, a driver in the Afrika Korps, to his pen-friend Hildegard Bronnold back in Germany. This new series of [more…]
21st Century
Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac
General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]
Hobbies
Northumberland, Part Two
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
Law of Nations Citizenship, Not Anchor Babies
The American Civil Liberties Union has been a primary litigant in challenging President Trump’s position that the offspring of illegal immigrants into the United States do not acquire US citizenship. ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Deputy [more…]
Biography