20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1990
Featured song: Status Quo – The Anniversary Waltz (I & II) This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
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Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th November 2025 The Panel: Anna Turley (Labour) Graham Stewart (Conservative) Paul Nowak (Trade Unionist) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Venue: Sunderland If you think the parliamentary representative for Redcar should be a Northern type, [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Four
The twins were awake early and came bouncing into their parents’ suite just as the sun was coming up in a big red ball on the horizon. Willie pulled back the curtains and said, “Mummy, [more…]
Arts
Jury Service
As a result of DH’s current jury service, I started reflecting on my own experience when I was randomly selected to undertake it in 2010. At the time I was 23 and working on rotation [more…]
Arts
Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 9
Today I shall be boarding a ferry, but its departure time is 12h45 and the terminal is only 15 miles away, so no huge rush and there’s plenty of time for breakfast, which is apparently [more…]
Economics
Gold’s flashing warning: The end is nigh for fiat
Gold’s spectacular performance has drawn a lot of attention and invited endless analyses and commentaries. There are many theories out there as to why the yellow metal is surging like never before in modern memory, [more…]
Communism
Overland to Russia, Part Two
Last time, I discussed the manifold problems you face setting up a trip to Russia. This piece is about the manifold problems you face when you eventually get there. For me, they began at the [more…]
Book Review
Anger Is An Energy, by John Lydon
‘They put a hot wire to my head Cos of the things I did and said They made these feelings go away Model citizen in every way’ (From Anger Is An Energy, the song) Given [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Seven
Back in March of this year, I authored a series of articles on GP based on my translations of the Feldpost letters of a German soldier, Hans Coutandin, to his girlfriend Evchen Möller. Part 6 [more…]