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20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four

18th December 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]

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The Adani Group and India’s Spheres of Influence

18th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Is the Adani Group Narendra Modi’s Trojan Horse in India’s efforts to counterbalance China’s expanding influence across the Indian Ocean and Africa​? December 12, 2024 The issues surrounding the Adani Group and its deals in [more…]

20th Century

Publicans Win Diploma For Bar Etiquette

17th December 2024 Going Postal 0

One secret: No politics As fine a figure of an English landlord (he tips the scale at nearly 17 stones) as ever drew a pint of old-and-mild is Mr. Alfred Leslie Farrell, “mine host” of [more…]

Politics

Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part Two

17th December 2024 Going Postal 0

As per Wiki : A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum  to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Two

15th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning all, it was bright and sunny early on, but the sun has gone now and it’s grey. Today we have the new numbers out for Channel migrants, 20,210 since the Government came [more…]

Fiction

A Price Too High, Chapter One

14th December 2024 Going Postal 0

It was a cold early January afternoon, Dave Stretton was driving his Uber cab back to Loughborough, he had dropped off in Nottingham city centre. It was misty and looking at the temperature on the [more…]

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Fabulously Festive Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 6

13th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Seasonal greetings, dear Puffins, and please be welcome to part six in our short series of articles, guaranteed to contain no weirdos, nothing obscure, nothing remotely challenging and no tunes not thoroughly well known to [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Five

12th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie drove her Lexus up to the gate of the Warminster Specialist Weapons School and showed her and her sister’s orders to the armed guards manning the barrier. The lance corporal read the papers and [more…]

Democracy

The last dance for democracy?

12th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Let’s examine the raw, pulsating heart of today’s governance crises in the West. Populist movements, those so-called ‘disruptors’ of the status quo, aren’t just random eruptions of public discontent; they are the inevitable backlash against [more…]

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