Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-One
Sitting in the car taking him to the hotel, Jane phoned “Remember, you have a meeting with Sir Rupert at 15:00 this afternoon, your first bollocking in your new job, no doubt it will be [more…]
Month: October 2026
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfrOlB6pXNI Featured Album: David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 8th October 2026 The Panel: Jake Richards (Labour) Harriet Cross (Conservative) Max Wilkinson (LibDem) Annabel Denham (Daily Telegraph) Kevin Maguire (Daily Mirror) Venue: Peterlee ‘Jake’ Richards is the Labour MP for Rother Valley [more…]
Computing
Hari Seldon’s Maths Machine in Northamptonshire: A 100-Variable Model for Predicting the future…
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent. I’m a long time lurker (early days of Guido Fawkes [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 05 John Vassall
Purists will argue that John Vassall was nothing to do with the Tories and in a sense they are right. John Vassall was a junior civil servant who spied for the Russians between 1954 and [more…]
Arts
Let’s Talk About Tracey
I visited 3 art exhibitions over the summer. The first was the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. I shared my thoughts on that exhibition in early Summer. I also visited the Zurbaran exhibition at the National [more…]
America
History don’t repeat, but it sure do rhyme……..
There is a particular species of man that history keeps breeding, the way a swamp keeps breeding mosquitoes — simply because the conditions are irresistible. He arrives at the tail end of an exhausted society, [more…]
20th Century
Childhood Memories
At the end of August 1939 my maternal grandmother took the decision that her children would not be evacuated because of the war. My grandfather had little say in the matter and accepted that if [more…]
America
Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 6)
In 1988, George Soros deftly manoeuvered through the stock holdings of Société Générale, France’s banking titan, executing trades that yielded a modest $2.2 million profit. The transaction, unremarkable at the time, scarcely rippled the financial [more…]