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Month: August 2026

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Nice Firm Bottom Pt.3

7th August 2026 Going Postal 0

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

Communism

Postcard From Jerry

7th August 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Jerry Westerby? Yes, Jerry Westerby. The Honourable Clive Gerald Westerby to the likes of you and me, but Jerry to his chums in the secret world and to his readers at the rag, especially those [more…]

Arts

Manouche – Part One

6th August 2026 Going Postal 0

Ernesto sang a beautiful haunting rhumba from his native Brazil, and then Chocote took the guitar to accompany Memé’s singing. Chocote’s big labourer’s fingers were transformed as they danced nimbly around the chords, his other [more…]

Conservatives

Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair

6th August 2026 well_chuffed 0

Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s.  His motto  was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]

20th Century

The Westland Whirlwind

5th August 2026 Blown Periphery 0

The Whirlwind was a twin-engine, heavy fighter developed by Westland Aircraft, not to be confused by the Westland Whirlwind helicopter of many years later. It was developed in the 1930s as a heavy fighter and [more…]

European Union

The Avoidable Inferno: How the EU, Eco Lunacy and Bureaucracy Fried France’s Forest

5th August 2026 Going Postal 0

The MSM news tells us that the huge summer wildfire near Bordeaux is clear evidence of an unpreventable “climate catastrophe”.  History proves otherwise. The Landes forest near Bordeaux is entirely artificial. It is Europe’s largest [more…]

Cooking

A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; A Slice Of Life

4th August 2026 Colin Cross 0

Not being too knowledgeable where apiary is concerned, but also knowing that some bees do build their homes underground, both the head of the B&M department and myself assumed that the black and yellow stripey [more…]

Politics

YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 7)

4th August 2026 Going Postal 0

By this point the pattern is visible. The remaining question is why it is allowed to continue. The answer is not that everyone inside the system is secretly coordinating. It is simpler than that. The [more…]

19th Century

Beamish: the Museum that said yes to everything

3rd August 2026 Going Postal 0

You may be surprised to learn that a working time machine has already been invented in County Durham. It exists because one man refused to let the region throw its own history into the skip. [more…]

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