Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Ten
When they had ordered the food and a bottle of wine, Jane asked how the meetings had gone today. “You probably know already, the meetings with the PM and the Home Secretary were both the [more…]
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Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Back To The Future
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers another groin-polished googly from the gasworks-end of contemporary culture. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark both International Drop [more…]
Holiday
WG’s Summer Cruise, June 2026 – Part Four
Saturday 20th June – At sea, heading for Gibraltar Today is my birthday and I am sure you all know the saying, “You are only as old as you feel.” Well, today I feel old [more…]
Conservatives
Burnham’s Bee Bus Bollocks
A Multi-Million Pound Illusion Funded by Tories and Paid for by You Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham never misses an opportunity to boast about his socialist transport “revolution.” To hear him tell it, the Manchester [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 5)
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]
18th Century
John Buddle: the man who subdued the monster
He started working life down a pit age six, ran half the coalfield by his thirties, and built an entire harbour to spite his rivals. They called him the King of the Coal Trade, and [more…]
Politics
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor — IMEC (Part 2)
The sequence began in 2017, when Kushner was appointed as Trump’s special adviser for the Middle East. His method was geo-economics: financial incentives and commercial integration as a substitute for political solutions. He called forty [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Three
Monday Good morning, my happy readers, it looks like the warm weather is back. It was very nice this weekend. If the truth be told, it was a bit warm for your cat reporter. There [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Nine
Sally looked at her phone when she heard knocking on the door, it was 10:45. She pulled a dressing gown on and went to see who it was. A smiling Jane Goodley was standing there, [more…]