Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Eighteen
The twins had gone to the club, and the adults were happily installed on loungers by the infinity pool with nice cold glasses of Pepsi Max for the ladies and a Doom Bar for Paolo. [more…]
Month: February 2026
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 6 Will Owen
William James Owen formerly a miner and latterly a Labour MP was tried for spying for the Czechs, it’s amazing how often Czech Intelligence’s name crops up when politicians are accused of spying. Better known [more…]
Arts
Reading – A Love Story: Learning to Fly 1970-73 Part 2
After the first few months of getting to grips with the reading at a low level the classroom books on offer while reasonably entertaining were not really enough for me and so I turned to [more…]
21st Century
The Shirika Plan
The Shirika Plan aims to achieve the socioeconomic integration of refugees into host communities by converting refugee camps into integrated settlements. Integrating refugees and asylum seekers into host communities remains a major challenge for Kenya [more…]
20th Century
Letters from an Arbeitsmaid – Part One
My series of articles Desert Mystery: Letters from a Feldgrau, was based upon the translation of FeldPost letters in my collection that Hans Coutandin, a soldier in the Deutsches Afrika Korps, had sent to Eva [more…]
America
The New New World Order : A big club & the UK & EUrope ain’t in it……..
Dear Puffins…………..for the purposes of this article, I’m positing that the UK & Europe are one entity The 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos will likely be remembered less as a forum for global coordination [more…]
Fiction
Seventeen Moments of Spring
In 1965 Yulian Semyonov wrote an espionage thriller, No Passport Required. It received good reviews and millions of readers. More importantly, in 1968, it came to the attention of Yuri Andropov, the recently appointed Chairman [more…]
America
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty-One
I am not a doggie person but I must congratulate TiredofEUlies on her recent show awards. I know how proud my daughter and now my grand-daughter are when they return from riding events with their [more…]