Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Five
Monday Good morning and hello from a not very happy cat this morning. I thought that Legohead was supposed to be going off on his holidays and I was going to have a nice peaceful [more…]
Blog
Journalism
Boiling Point
July saw a series of high-profile racial attacks with white people as the victims. Anthony Esan, a black man, was charged with attempted murder over the stabbing of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton near Gillingham’s Brompton [more…]
Fiction
Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Five
He left at 12.00, this would give him plenty of time to drive to Luton Parkway and change on to the train for the last part. The M1 was steady all the way, at junction [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1961
Featured song: The Shadows – FBI – as performed on Crackerjack (It’s Friday what do we all say?) This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper [more…]
Arts
Sock Puppets
Have you noticed how easily the left get the rest of us and especially the right to read tweets or watch a short video of a left-wing politician or indeed any Schwab type person? They [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Eight
On Monday afternoon Freddie, Nigel’s chauffeur and general factotum, dropped Jinnie, Izzy and Sir Nigel off outside the offices of Mann, Coombes and Company. Freddie headed off in the Rolls to the public car park [more…]
Authoritarianism
Riots, Royals & Petitions For Parliamentary Reform
It’s standard practice when a making a complaint that one: articulates the complaint to the appropriate person in writing says what would resolve the complaint i.e. what you want them to do Why should it [more…]
20th Century
Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel’s Photograph Collection
The Vietnam War started in 1955 and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975 when the Americans left in a hurry. It has been described as the first televised war but a claim to [more…]
21st Century
Hatuwezi Ishi Hivi (We Can’t Live This Way)
Police brutality during the #RejectFinanceBill protests has shown us that while politicians can afford to sit back and wait for the 2027 general election, we the citizens of Kenya do not have that luxury. They [more…]