Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy
Monday Good morning, people. Wow, the sun is out this morning for a change, but it’s still bloody cold. I was not outside for very long, and I don’t intend to be outside much more [more…]
Blog
20th Century
Interesting Lives, Part Two
When Aga Khan III died, it was a difficult act to follow, especially since the title skipped a generation and found itself resting upon the shoulders of 19-year-old Prince Karim Al Husseini, who we know [more…]
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Twelve
On Monday morning, a Transit van was outside, it was loaded with boxes of files retrieved from various locations following the raid on the farm. There was no way it would all fit in the [more…]
Arts
The History of Pop Music – 1973
Featured song: 10cc – Rubber Bullets 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 it. One [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th February 2025 The Panel: Luke Pollard (Labour) Alicia Kearns (Conservative) John Cauldwell (Entrepreneur) Maya Goodfellow (Academic) Freddie Gray (Journalist) Venue: Derby This week’s ‘live on iPlayer’ QT kicked off late owing to [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Five
Jinnie parked at Maple House and, before locking her new Lexus LM, checked her watch. She was not going to be late; it certainly wouldn’t do being late on the first day of trading of [more…]
21st Century
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part One
My previous series of articles (“Letters from Afrika”) was based on the “FeldPost” letters from Hans Walden, a driver in the Afrika Korps, to his pen-friend Hildegard Bronnold back in Germany. This new series of [more…]
21st Century
Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac
General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]