20th Century
Return To The Jernbanemysterium
A phrase lingers in the mind. In passing, Mr. DH — my colleague, a fellow Puffin to us all, and master of that mysterious gift known as the turn of phrase — once summed up [more…]
Month: March 2025
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Thirteen
It would take almost five hours to drive into London, he decided to park at Hillingdon and take the tube the rest of the way. Hopefully he would be there whilst Jane Goodley was still [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – When World’s Collide
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. I’ve been far [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th March 2025 The Panel: Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Harriett Baldwin (Conservative) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Adrian Ramsay (Green) Venue: Skipton This present situation reminds this humble reviewer of the end of the Cold [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book 8 – Chapter One
Dame Jinnie De Luca strolled across the departure hall at Heathrow Terminal 5, looking for the check-in desk for her BA flight to Montreal. She was flying to Ottawa to attend her first board meeting [more…]
20th Century
Lessons from Churchill
Many of you may well be familiar with this outstanding biography of Winston Spencer Churchill first published in 2018. Over 982 pages, and splendidly subtitled “Walking with Destiny”, the eminent historian Andrew Roberts manages to [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau” Part Two
In Part 1, I recounted what Hans Coutandin had written to his girlfriend Eva Möller in his letters of early 1941 as he transitioned from being an “Arbeitsmann” in the “RAD-Abteilung 3/250” to be in [more…]
Business
The delusion of job creation
I have been diverted from writing further essays in the Economic Perspectives series as I am assembling the existing essays in a book designed to demystify the science of economics. But occasionally the temptation to [more…]
America
A View (Some Miles Away) From The Greenhouse; The Art Of Diplomacy….Innit?
I’m sure that by now we’ve all seen at least the ten minute clip of the White House “spat” and I know I’m far from alone, at least in the august company of Going Postal [more…]