Science
Modern day windscreens
If you have a relatively modern car – definitely 20 years old or less, then you will undoubtedly have a bonded windscreen. This is where the windscreen is ‘glued’ to the car’s body and a [more…]
Blog
Economics
Fighting the Good Fight
The UN is actively addressing the challenges of international tax cooperation in the digital era, highlighting the necessity to revamp existing rules. A recent UN report offers three options: a legally binding multilateral convention, a [more…]
Diary
A View From The (Partially Dismantled) Greenhouse; That’s Different….Innit?
Life (and concomitant jobs) continue apace, the proposed outside growing area is almost cleared up, with any amount of farmyard detritus either taken to the tip or simply moved to another area, where it will [more…]
20th Century
Desert Journey, Part Three
In 1961 my uncle, John Alldridge spent some time on the set of Lawrence of Arabia and reported his experiences for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Jebel Tubeiq, Jordan According to the Bedouin, that [more…]
Hobbies
A mini problem
In 1984 I bought my first car and like many teenagers at that time a mini was an ideal way to gain independence and freedom of the road. My father and brother both worked as [more…]
Conservatives
A pathetic array of muddled and utterly unprincipled tax policies
The chief role of government is to enact laws that protect the lives and civil freedoms of its citizens. Any “add-ons” warrant the most careful scrutiny before being admitted to the nation’s laws. However, even [more…]
Animals
Larrys Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Two
Monday Hi folks, it’s another week and I am here again, bringing you all the news that’s fit to report, and some that isn’t! The Rich Boy, or as I have heard him called in [more…]
19th Century
A Gem From The Golden Age of Coffee
Despite finding San Salvador to be a much more pleasant place than expected, we shall strike into the provinces and catch our breath in a guest room in the sticks. En route, we shall allow [more…]
Literature
The Station at Aston Rowant
Based on a lyrical passage in The Oxford, Gloucester and Milford Haven Road, by Charles G Harper. Harper’s entire oeuvre of “Road” books has long been out of print, but no travel writer I know [more…]