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19th Century

Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

Business

No Need to Control Resources; Access Is Sufficient

2nd July 2025 Patrick Barron 0

For a long time political pundits have wished that the US government was run “more like a business”; thus, believing that a businessman would be preferable to a politician. A businessman’s goal is to make [more…]

Cycling

West Country Rides, Four

1st July 2025 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

Economics

Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Two

1st July 2025 Going Postal 0

Following on from detailing some of the ways Landlords will be affected by the bill there has been a great furore centred on “Section 21 is no fault eviction” in fact no one wants to [more…]

Business

How To Deliver a Parcel, Part 2

30th June 2025 Going Postal 0

“Ok, how do you actually deliver 300 parcels at Christmas, Matt? You spouted out a lot of words and made me wait for part 2, but how do you actually do it?” Well, just before [more…]

Politics

Blackfriars

30th June 2025 well_chuffed 0

As some of you will know but for those who don’t, Blackfriar is Cockney rhyming slag for liar. There is often an element of truth in such slang, maybe the order of Blackfriars (aka the [more…]

Literature

An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Three

29th June 2025 Going Postal 0

Interesting reading Never up to the job’s article on digitising family ‘photos, recordings and other memories. A great deal of aechive material to work with. I am at the opposite end of the spectrum as [more…]

Literature

A Homage to Pam Ayres & ‘Surgically enhanced’.

29th June 2025 Going Postal 0

I’m goin’ to have a sex-change: I know it’s for the best. I’ll have two smooth, proud, round bosoms, Not a spotty, hairy, chest… So it’s Goodbye, Willy, you must leave me, Slightly sad to [more…]

Christianity

Changed Times? Part Two

28th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]

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