Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty
At 17:00 he was phoned with the time, 03:30 with entry into the building around 04:00. The location of the meeting point was written down. He walked along to Jane’s office. “We have a time, [more…]
Blog
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Confessions Of A Knob Botherer Part 1
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends! Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – our occasional Campari and soda-drenched probe into the rainbow and [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st Oct 2026 The Panel: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour) Julia Lopez (Conservative) Suella Braverman (Reform UK) Oli Dugmore (Journalist & Commentator) Venue: Tottenham One of the Garden of England Fahnbulleh’s, posh Miatta was educated [more…]
America
John Kiriakou: War, Diplomacy and What Comes Next
Part of the upcoming “World War III” documentary For many years and by many administrations, Americans have been told that endless overseas interventions, ballooning military budgets, and an ever-expanding intelligence apparatus are the price of freedom, security and global leadership. However, what [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys Part – 04 Thomas Dugdale
I had never heard of this one but on the face of it this was a case of a minister doing the honourable thing and resigning as a result of his civil servants screwing things [more…]
America
We Have Met the Enemy…
The above is the first half of a famous cartoon quote from the early 1950’s which was reborn, so to speak, on Earth Day 1970. At the end of this short article I will give [more…]
Cooking
A View From (Just Inside) The Greenhouse; British Values….Innit?
The picture above, although the quality doesn’t really do it justice, is of a tomato plant (never, I hear you say). It bears a small oval(ish) fruit which turns from green to yellow which, to [more…]
America
Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 5)
How did George Soros’s saga of triumph unfold from those nascent days in America? As a young émigré, he had charted a modest course: amass $500,000 in five years, return to England, and immerse himself [more…]
18th Century
Cuthbert Collingwood: The forgotten hero of Trafalgar
Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every British ship through the storm that followed. He was [more…]