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Month: April 2025

Fiction

The Past is Present, Chapter Three

26th April 2025 Going Postal 0

Upstairs in the Prime Minister’s private office he turned his computer monitor so Dave could read the message. ‘We have Jane Goodley the head of MI5 here. Unless you do what we want, she will [more…]

Arts

Inventions that changed music – Part 3 The electric guitar

25th April 2025 Northern Man 0

 “Necessity is the mother of invention” is a proverb which, though not in those precise words, dates back to at least 6BC, featuring in one of Aesop’s fables (“The Crow and the Pitcher” if you [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

How I miss Question Time. One hankers after £30,000-an-hour Fiona Bruce pontificating on inequality before a representative audience of progressive liberals who have a relative at the BBC. As our £110,000-a-year elected representatives take a [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Eight

24th April 2025 Going Postal 0

Izzy recovered from her surprise at the proposal of marriage very quickly, and replied, “Yes, of course.” The rest of the table burst into cheers, which quickly turned to applause, and the surrounding tables, seeing [more…]

America

Making Sense of American Craziness

24th April 2025 Going Postal 0

The idea that England and America are two countries separated by the same language is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there are other attributes that separate us as well.  We in the US [more…]

20th Century

Fitzroy Maclean

23rd April 2025 Going Postal 0

When you hear the name Fitzroy Maclean, what comes to mind? For many, it’s his role as a founding member of the SAS, those daring desert raiders of World War II. Others might recall his [more…]

America

Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 0

Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]

Arts

It’s Over, Goodbye 4chan

22nd April 2025 Going Postal 0

On the 14th of April, the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. 4Chan had been hacked.  While it has been hacked before, none of them have ever been this devastating. The Source code has [more…]

Labour

Edstone Miligit

22nd April 2025 well_chuffed 0

Edward Samuel Miliband is a Right Honourable not because he is honorable, rather the opposite in fact, neither is he right, he is a big lefty but he carries this title because he is a [more…]

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