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Month: May 2026

Holmes and Watson
19th Century

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes, 5/6: The Wolf Man of Mayfair. Part 1 of 2

31st May 2026 Tachybaptus 0

It was a sunny spring morning, and even amid the noise from busy Baker Street the open window admitted the song of a blackbird. Holmes laid down the News Chronicle to address himself to a [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Nine

31st May 2026 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, everyone. It’s nice and sunny at the moment, but there is thunder and lightning forecast for later. I don’t like all those flashes and bangs. As usual, Legohead has been at Chequers [more…]

Business

A Plutocrats’ Tour of The North

30th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

For generations, the phrase “grim up north” has lingered in the national imagination — conjuring images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. It is a shorthand that flattens the region [more…]

Fiction

Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Two

30th May 2026 Going Postal 0

Jane Goodley wasn’t in her office, Howard said she had been in meetings almost constantly since yesterday morning. “Has there been any progress?” “They have been studying the CCTV yesterday, it’s possible they have picked [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Blue Dot Fever

29th May 2026 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight, as we respectfully mark Inflammatory Bowel [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

29th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time AI Special 28th May 2026 The Panel: Darren Jones (Labour) Julia Lopez (Conservative) Laura Gilbert (Tony Blair Institute) Mo Gadwat (AI Pioneer) Victor Riparbelli (CEO, Synthesia) Venue: Dulwich Penned in 2022, a G-P [more…]

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Thirty-Two

28th May 2026 Going Postal 0

A happy Alberto left Jinnie and headed back to his office. Jinnie sat pondering the question of whom she should pitch the job of CEO of TT SuperBurger to. It was a major problem. She [more…]

Conservatives

Labour’s bad boys – Part 15 The Hackney Abacus

28th May 2026 well_chuffed 0

We linger a while longer in 2023 where we encounter Diane Julie Abbott who has been the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. After getting a 2:2 in History she went through [more…]

18th Century

George Stephenson: The Father of the Railways

27th May 2026 Going Postal 0

He couldn’t read his own name until he was 18. Then he built the technology that shrank the planet. George Stephenson was born in a two-room cottage in Wylam, Northumberland, on 9 June 1781. There [more…]

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