Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Ten
When they had ordered the food and a bottle of wine, Jane asked how the meetings had gone today. “You probably know already, the meetings with the PM and the Home Secretary were both the [more…]
Month: July 2026
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Back To The Future
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers another groin-polished googly from the gasworks-end of contemporary culture. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark both International Drop [more…]
Engineering
A Wet HS2? Part Three
DIP’s nuclear element The vast expense of the nuclear element of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) – by far its largest commitment – has drawn our focus in two previous articles upon the following: Dreadnought [more…]
Holiday
WG’s Summer Cruise, June 2026 – Part Four
Saturday 20th June – At sea, heading for Gibraltar Today is my birthday and I am sure you all know the saying, “You are only as old as you feel.” Well, today I feel old [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
Conservatives
Burnham’s Bee Bus Bollocks
A Multi-Million Pound Illusion Funded by Tories and Paid for by You Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham never misses an opportunity to boast about his socialist transport “revolution.” To hear him tell it, the Manchester [more…]
20th Century
The Sure Way to Destroy a Prosperous Nation
This is not a frivolous claim, but the sure way to destroy a prosperous nation is to debase the currency. History is full of examples, from ancient Rome to the nascent French Republic to Weimar [more…]
Animals
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; Birds Of A Feather
I’ve learned to kind of expect the unexpected where the greenhouse is concerned. There’s rarely a day goes by when there aren’t at least one or two (feathered) birds in there, struggling to find its [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 5)
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]