Health
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: A Postcard From 1976
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Twelve
Jinnie desperately wanted to talk to Brooke about roast beef rolls, but as it was just coming up to half past three, it would be eight thirty back home and it was unfair to phone [more…]
Health
Euthanasia
In 1983, Neil Kinnock gave a speech in which he warned: If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not [more…]
Democracy
Kenya at 60: Field notes from the neo-colony
Despite the veneer of progress, what does a historical critique of East Africa’s capitalist beacon reveal? The linked photograph shows the spectrum of nationalist politics at independence: (from left) Achieng Oneko, who introduced Kenyatta to [more…]
Authoritarianism
Means of Communication and Suppression
The seed of this article came from this site, I was like many other GPers a poster on GF until banned, whether SB knew what he was creating I don’t know but he is to [more…]
Arts
A Few of My Favourite Things – Part 2
Part 1 of this series featured 3 glass pieces of art from my collection. In the second part I take a look at some other forms of art, the first of which is a print [more…]
20th Century
Teh 1970’s & all that
One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory. It is only later in life [more…]
Language
No one is attacking me
Odysseus, when asked his name by Polyphemus, famously retorted ‘Outis’ – ‘no-one’, or ‘nobody’; thus, when the drunk Cyclops was having his eye gouged out by Odysseus and co., his call for help from his [more…]