History
No Country for Old White Men
I suspect many of us here will have seen the image of a young woman being hoisted on a fellow’s shoulders and gleefully bearing a banning which stated that “THIS IS NOT A COUNTRY FOR [more…]
Articles by Roger Ackroyd
History
Stand in the Trench, Achilles*
Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]
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The Strange Death of Jack Moeran
Kenmare Pier, Co.Kerry Just after 4 p.m. on December 1st 1950 a single figure was seen walking down the length of Kenmare Pier in Co.Kerry, southern Ireland. It was already getting quite dark and the [more…]
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Uncle Bertie, Part One
It had been several weeks since I had visited my Uncle Bertie and as I walked down the driveway towards the substantial gothic edifice which loomed out from behind the fir trees bordering the front [more…]
Communism
Travel
Postcard from Devon
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Literature
Stories from the Shelf, Volume One
Browsing secondhand bookshop shelves has been one of life’s delights, from the time I was barely in my teens and visiting the Croydon Bookshop in the Old Town (now long demolished to accommodate the flyover) [more…]
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It Passeth All Understanding
In the early morning of a warm August day The Sir Winston Churchill, a 300 ton fore and aft schooner, slipped its moorings in Falmouth harbour and headed out into the straits preparatory to the [more…]
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No Shit, Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes. The greatest fictional detective ever created and despite other later iconic creations that have graced the cinema and television screens – Maigret, Poirot, Morse – he will remain forever at the very pinnacle [more…]