Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Seven
When ever I start one of these pieces I begin to feel a touch of the Victor Meldrew’s coming on – there is so much to delight happening around (c.f. many of the lovely articles [more…]
Blog
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-Nine
Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my diary. Today is the 11th, the real Armistice Day, and Palestinians are threatening to disrupt services around the country. Legohead is off to Paris to [more…]
19th Century
Enemies Within: Anarchy!
Only the nieve might think the nighttime streets of 1894 Soho, a den of immigrants and nere-do-goods, were not already alive with talk of the events of the previous chilly February afternoon. Passers-by investigating an [more…]
Fiction
Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Nineteen
They sat in the back of the Range Rover as they were whisked off to the rear entrance to Downing Street. Dave and Sally were led in through a guarded doorway. The passes were now [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1966
Featured song: The beach Boys – Good Vibrations This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st November 2024 The Panel: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Harriett Baldwin (Conservative) Daisy Cooper (LibDem) Minette Batters (former NFU president) Venue: Trowbridge Nick Thomas-Symonds, not his real name (not double-barrelled; Thomas was his mother’s [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Two
Jinnie pushed the button that changed the Trattoria Trevi Group boardroom’s glazed partitions from transparent to opaque and called the meeting to order. Before talking about the project, she impressed on everyone the importance of [more…]
America
Decline & Fall
The final stage of a great power’s decline is often marked by a shift towards finance-driven capitalism. In the 1980s and ’90s, finance-driven capitalism was touted as the future of economic prosperity. However, this narrative [more…]
20th Century
Whittaker Chambers, Part Three
In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]