Arts
Manouche – Part Two
After leaving the Manouche, I stayed in London for about a year, putting some money together, and surprised myself by getting married to a Colombian lady. While in London, Beudjeu and I still wrote to [more…]
Articles by Going Postal
20th Century
Walking in Memphis
I guess you know this is a song. The Cher version is crap but Marc Cohn’s one in the early 90s was great Anyone who has heard of, let alone been, to Memphis will associate [more…]
Economics
Bonds and how they work
This is likely to be very boring, but I’m going to try to explain how the bond market works and why so much attention is paid to the 10 year gilt level. Initial primer Bonds [more…]
21st Century
Postcard from Mumbai
After a long, hot site visit in Panoli, a small industrial town in Gujarat, the traffic on the main Ahmedabad to Mumbai highway was even more hideous than usual. It was the last day of [more…]
Labour
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]
18th Century
Nicholas Wood: The man who wrote the book on railways
He taught Robert Stephenson his trade, judged the Rainhill Trials, and wrote the first proper book on railways, the one that engineers across the world actually used. Not all of us can be gallivanting around [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Six
Monday Good morning, my happy readers, and welcome to another week of “stuff” from your intrepid cat reporter. The sun was back to being rather warm again this morning, and I hear another heatwave is [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twelve
Simon Pegson was dressed in grey prison clothing, he was around fifty, had once been fit, possibly a rugby player, but a lot of the muscle had now turned to fat. Jane stood away from [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Nice Firm Bottom Pt.3
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished, googly from the gasworks-end pavilion of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark International [more…]