Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Six
Dave sat in the lounge waiting, he was early, he wanted to see who came through the door. There was no mistaking the Chief Constable, although he had changed out of his uniform, he still [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off – Parp!
Greetings pop pickers (from the hot and steamy Côte d’Azur on the stunning Mediterranean coastline of southeastern France) and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and yet another of our groin-polished googlies from [more…]
Uncategorized
BritSitRep2026 – An overview of all that matters (Part 3)
Britain has had a hundred years to perfect its own decline. The pound, which once measured a quarter of the world’s trade, now buys less than it did in 1900 even before the inflation adjustment. [more…]
Economics
When We Was Fab – The Economics Ball
For Australia I went to an upscale university. Sydney is, I think, the oldest one and along with Melbourne, New South and the ANU the most highly regarded It’s not Oxford or Harvard but the [more…]
Arts
The Clairvoyant
Perhaps the one aspiration all parties bar the Greens hold is to try to engineer some growth into the economy. Most of the blame attaches to the Treasury but the country seems unable to accomplish [more…]
Politics
BritSitRep2026 – An overview of all that matters (Part 2)
The popular conception of politics, taught in schools and reinforced by every TV sofa politics show, is that the people elect representatives, the representatives debate the laws, and the laws are then administered by a [more…]
19th Century
William Hedley: The Man Who Made the Wheels Stick
Before George Stephenson’s name ended up on everything, a colliery manager from Newburn settled the one argument that decided whether railways would ever work. He won it with a hand-cranked cart, two iron engines, and [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Five
Back in the office Sally was smiling. “I’ve found him, but Valerie is struggling, when you have had a coffee, can you sit with her.” “Who is he?” “Stephen Williams, aged twenty seven, I have [more…]
America
The Eternal Triangle
Sit yourselves down, Puffins, pour yourself a large one, & harken to the sorry tale of a chorus girl, the son of a US railroad robber baron, and the murdered architect Stanford White, in a [more…]