Hobbies
Crossword No. 154
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winners of a GP mug/copy of War Crimes. 153 – [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Two
Jinnie loved her weekly whist classes, but she knew better than to discuss what she learnt with anyone, especially her boyfriend Hans. He was in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and took it very seriously. He [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Northern Ireland. On the panel are: Brandon Lewis MP, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Conservative, Louise Haigh MP, shadow [more…]
America
Hasta la Vista, DJT…… An Attempted Dispassionate Appraisal 2016-2020
Puffinati, lend me your ears; I come to bury DJT, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with [more…]
Business
Italy: The latest front of war on cash
Together with Germans and Greeks, Italians have long been the most stubborn and steadfast of Europeans in their love of cash. For years, they have resisted cards and digital payments and viewed with deep suspicion [more…]
Communism
The Science of Deception
If history tells us anything, it is that things always have the potential to get worse, and it’s already looking as though 2020 has done just that by inflicting 2021 upon us, not as a [more…]
Arts
Film Review: The Usual Suspects
In the final moments of the classic film Casablanca, at the airport, Rick, an American refugee, and sympathizer of the underground resistance to the Nazi movement, has just shot and killed Major Strasser of the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Six
Monday Morning all. Well, it’s AstraZeneca day at last. The rollout started this morning and fittingly the first person to vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca developed vaccine was 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, in an Oxford [more…]
Authoritarianism
War is Over…….GloboCap Wins!
Well OK, so, that was quite unsettling. For one terrifying moment there, it actually looked like GloboCap was going to let Roossian-Asset-Literally-Hitler win. Hour after hour on election night, States on the map kept turning [more…]