Hobbies
Crossword No. 220
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a 1 oz silver Britannia. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 219 and a GP mug [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty-Five – Queen
If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Three – Chapter Twenty-One
Jinnie, Alberto and the Sommelier met Belinda mid-morning two days later to see the West End restaurant. They were in the middle of their lunchtime prep so the visit to the kitchen was somewhat limited [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 26th May 2022 The Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Emma Little-Pengelly (DUP) Naomi Long (Alliance Party) John Finucane (Sinn Fein) Venue: Belfast Although originally one of the Falls Road Finucanes, John [more…]
20th Century
Press Photographer, Part One
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) Halfway over Putney Bridge the No 14 bus jolted to a halt. Behind it the rush-hour [more…]
America
Rainy Island Goes To War
The following events either take place before the point we left our friends Bob and Fred in the previous Rainy Island story, or perhaps they occur in a multiverse where infinite outcomes are possible. In [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Anti-Pass Movement in France
This article was inspired by two videos I watched on Saturday, the first one on Dan Astin-Gregory’s Pandemic Podcast (1), the second on Hugo Talks (2). The Pandemic Podcast is an interesting YouTube channel. It [more…]
Book Review
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…]
Business
“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”, Part Two
Claudio Grass (CG): A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications. What is your take on [more…]