20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1971
Featured Album: T-Rex – Electric Warrior This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the [more…]
Month: September 2026
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th September 2026 The Panel: Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Josh Barbarinde (LibDem) Andrew Neil (Journalist) Ash Sarkar (Political commentator) Venue: Cambridge A graduate of the London School of Economics with a [more…]
Arts
Crossing the Atlantic, Arrival
Every morning the Chief engineer and his #2 would be having breakfast. He was a cheerful Ukrainian man and I always used to ask him, tongue in cheek, if the engine was still OK. On [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 03 Reginald Maudling
Reggie was one of the big beasts of the Tory Party in the 50s and 60s. He was another who was hovering around the leadership along with RAB Butler. Neither of them quite managed to [more…]
Politics
Ceuta – A Bridge too Far? Part 2
Some are claiming that many of these are criminals freed by Morocco & bused to the border as a deliberate act. (This same tactic was used by Central and South American regimes to dump their gangs in [more…]
America
Confidence Is Essential for a Fiat Currency
Since fiat currencies, per se, are not redeemable for anything other than themselves, their very existence depends upon confidence. The issuing authority must not inflate the currency’s size to the point that it begins to [more…]
History
The Neutrality Referendum
Why Switzerland must tie its politicians’ hands On the 27th of September, Swiss voters will decide on the popular initiative “Safeguarding Swiss Neutrality.” The proposal would insert a new article into the Federal Constitution declaring [more…]
Economics
Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 4)
According to F. William Engdahl, a German-American political scientist and incisive commentator, George Soros secured the allegiance of 99 “sophisticated investors,” as mandated by U.S. law for a fund of such ambition. Engdahl distilled the [more…]
19th Century
Mary Ann Cotton: Four Weddings and a Lot of Funerals
The series takes its first (but not final) turn to the darker side of the North East’s historical figures. Mary Ann Cotton of Low Moorsley was the first female serial killer in British history. This [more…]