Health
Time to say goodbye to the NHS
Our Story I write this as a person rather than one of my OTF articles. I feel compelled to write it after our recent experience with the NHS. Some of you know whereabouts I live [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Book Review
Book Review: Across Atlantic Ice: the origin of America’s Clovis culture
Half an academic dry tome and half one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, this book lays out the evidence for what is known as ‘the Solutrean hypothesis’. It’s basically trying to answer [more…]
Animals
Larrys Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Eight
Monday Hello everyone for favourite cat reporter here ready to bring you all the news and rumours I hear in the corridors of power. This morning I had my normal trip down to the bottom [more…]
Biography
Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Five
Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here Part Four is here This time: Fallout from the lock in and Eck’s sudden departure I was woken by the alarm going off [more…]
20th Century
South American Journey, Part Three
More writings by uncle, John Alldridge. This time he is reporting from South America in 1960 for the Birmingham Evening Mail – Jerry F Over The Stone Curtain of The Andres Buenos Aires was as [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Five – Chapter Twenty-Four
Jinnie, Brian, and on this occasion Miranda, once again visited the TV station for a progress update. As they waited in reception Mike Graham walked out and did a double-take before walking over. He said, [more…]
Biography
That’s Life, Part 2
My first time in France was in 1963 on an army ‘Adventure Training Expedition,’ aka ‘Think up a jolly which has a ‘ military slant ‘ and have most expenses funded. We were to canoe [more…]
21st Century
Maandamano: Cost of Living Unrest in Kenya
Mathare 19 July 2023 Mathare 19 July 2023. Aside ongoing power cuts, internet restrictions, Kenya’s Western proxy President William Ruto again finds himself between a rock and a hard place as business, religious leaders and [more…]
19th Century
3 Grains of Death The New Opium Wars
We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]