19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 28
June 3rd, 1811. The city of New York lies in a broad river estuary whose wooded slopes give no hint of what will appear around the corner. The river is divided into several channels, forming [more…]
Blog
Arts
How I stopped being a Lefty and became literally Hitler
This is what I’ve been putting off writing for the longest time now: a personal account of how things became the way they are now, at least ideologically speaking. When I grew up and all [more…]
Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th June 2019 Panel: Caroline Flint Liz Truss Tom Newton Dunn Richard Walker Ayesha Hazarika Venue: Halifax First up may I give a hearty thank you to Flying Hippo for standing in last [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Halifax. On the panel: Liz Truss MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Conservative; Caroline Flint MP, former shadow Secretary of [more…]
Biography
Lieutenant Rory Stewart – Traveller, Soldier, Gentleman
In the year of our Lord 2002, a remarkable young soldier by the name of Roderick James Nugent Stewart took some good old fashioned shooting leave in Afghanistan. Upon his return to Britain, he documented [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Nineteen
Sir Alan agreed with Mandelson. “Marmon has a file full of metaphorical green ink letters. All sorts of evil wished upon him.” “I didn’t see any such file in his home,” I told them. “That’s [more…]
Politics
Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 2
Tasked with heading the challenge of confronting the declared CLIMATE EMERGENCY, Councillors and politicians throughout the land and all over the world are sounding the alarm bells and preaching to the people: WE MUST ACT [more…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 27
April 24th, 1811. Our wanderings have brought us to Trinidad, the largest and almost the easternmost of the chain of islands which dot the edge of the Caribbean Sea. Skirting the western edge of the [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 20
I’m in Josephina Island in the middle of the Philippine archipelago and have just rendezvoused, now that the typhoon has passed, with my business associate Gisele. She has pleasantly surprised me with a business opportunity, [more…]