Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1968
Featured song: The Bee Gees – Words 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. [more…]
Blog
Authoritarianism
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Six
On the train back to Potters Bar Jinnie suggested that Penny, Dan and Irena should come over for dinner that evening then Irena could meet the twins again. As it was Friday the twins weren’t [more…]
Politics
They’re back (but they never went away)…………
It feels like only yesterday when the global elite nearly succeeded in dragging us into their dystopian narrative, all for the sake of a so-called health emergency that was all about about power rather than [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four
In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]
Business
The Adani Group and India’s Spheres of Influence
Is the Adani Group Narendra Modi’s Trojan Horse in India’s efforts to counterbalance China’s expanding influence across the Indian Ocean and Africa? December 12, 2024 The issues surrounding the Adani Group and its deals in [more…]
20th Century
Publicans Win Diploma For Bar Etiquette
One secret: No politics As fine a figure of an English landlord (he tips the scale at nearly 17 stones) as ever drew a pint of old-and-mild is Mr. Alfred Leslie Farrell, “mine host” of [more…]
Politics
Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part Two
As per Wiki : A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the [more…]
20th Century
Great Uncle Wally
Great Uncle Wally introduced me to Guinness. Well, to be fair Mackeson, its slightly sweeter cousin. A stout more adapted to the tastes of your average seven-year-old. Those regular Sunday trips during the late 60s [more…]