20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter One
How It All Began Today was 21st June 2019 and Jinnie Walsh’s 18th birthday. She had completed her A-level exams and was doing what most girls of her age did in the summer before university [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Durham. On the panel are: Minister for children Vicky Ford MP, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth MP, Westminster spokesperson on [more…]
Health
Lives, damned lives and statistics
On January 11th, the BBC and Sky each made great play of ‘the worst excess deaths since the second world war’ announced for 2020. This clearly conveyed a message that the corona virus was indeed [more…]
Authoritarianism
A Considered Appraisal of 2020 : That Was The Year That Was
2020……….Year Zero……….. The year the Global Capitalist Ruling Classes, having finished their dance of the seven veils, did away with the last figleaf of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly [more…]
Arts
Reexamining Corruption
It’s hard to make a pro-corruption argument. This might seem like a banal point to make, but it goes a long way to explaining its role as a rhetorical tool to delegitimise incumbent elites. Any [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Five
Monday Hello everyone, I am a bit confused, it was Boxing Day on Saturday but it a bank holiday today and there seems to be very few in the office again. Well, at least there [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 152
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of Blown Periphery’s ‘War Crimes for the Political Elite’. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s [more…]
Cooking
It’s a Bird………..It’s a plane……… No, It’s a Scotch Egg
Does it really take a planned demic to bring a much loved and often forgotten item out from the dark shadows of a corner shop chill cabinet and put in the spotlight front & centre [more…]
Authoritarianism
“It’s for your own safety”
Saddam Hussain Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Boris Johnson The more pedantic sections of our grand old society will point out that 2020 was not the start of a new decade, rather, the end [more…]