Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Nine
He remembered nothing of the drive back, at 02:00 he woke up, he was hungry and thirsty, downstairs he ate cold chicken, drunk a pint of milk and looked for biscuits. He was soon back [more…]
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Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – 1972 And All That
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. I’ve recently been re-reading David Hepworth’s rather [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th February 2025 The Panel: Michael Shanks (Labour) Russel Findlay (Conservative) Kate Forbes (SNP) Lorna Slater (Green) Alex Massie (Journalist) Venue: Glasgow An outbreak of journalism on this week’s Question Time, or at [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Thirty-Two
It was almost 8 a.m. when Jinnie dragged herself out of bed and left Paolo snoring gently. She made her way to the kitchen, desperate for a cup of coffee, and the first thing she [more…]
Media
Money down the plughole
Or we could call this money down the crapper or even money down the Gary Glitter. With the revelations coming out of USAID via DOGE’s extremely young whizz kids regarding the funding of all sorts [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery – Does Using AI Software Work?
In my last series of articles (Desert Mystery – Letters from Afrika), I described what had happened to a German Afrika Korps driver, Hans Walden, during the WW2 Desert War through the translation of the [more…]
Holiday
Yet Another Caribbean Christmas And New Year, Part Three
Saturday 28th December – Antigua (mid-cruise changeover day) I really don’t know why, but as usual, I woke just after six a.m. as it was just getting light, and we were heading into port. It [more…]
Diary
A View (Literally) Through The Greenhouse: Storms (What Are They Good For?)
There has been much huffing, puffing and pearl clutching, from the usual suspects, where the subject of “interference” in politics is concerned. Whether it be financial (the hypocrisy runs deep in this particular river) or, [more…]
Economics
A Practical Way to Protect the Worldwide Trading System
In a previous essay I pointed out that it is very likely that the US will isolate itself from the worldwide trading system due to it past, frankly, unlawful actions to steal the assets of [more…]