20th Century
Teh 1970’s & all that
One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory. It is only later in life [more…]
Blog
Fiction
Merry Christmas, Sergeant Edge
Edge knew that he was coming down with something. His head felt muggy and the back of his throat and soft palate felt enlarged and spongy. He had been unable to clear his left ear, [more…]
Language
No one is attacking me
Odysseus, when asked his name by Polyphemus, famously retorted ‘Outis’ – ‘no-one’, or ‘nobody’; thus, when the drunk Cyclops was having his eye gouged out by Odysseus and co., his call for help from his [more…]
20th Century
The Dreaming Spires
The 1949 page of our old family photo album is confidently captioned ‘Bournemouth’ but neglects any images of the Hampshire Riviera resort. Not to worry. They say that getting there is half of the fun [more…]
Engineering
How to fit a security camera
How to fit a security camera Having just fitted a security camera, I thought I’d pen an article detailing the thought process that I went through to choose which camera to fit, and the fitting [more…]
Arts
High Vis – Blending (2022)
Music of the angry working class has not been commercially supported over the last fifteen years or so. I’ve nothing to back that point up other than anecdotal evidence from perusals of the genres in [more…]
Authoritarianism
Starmergeddon
What is Starmerism? Quite. Last weekend, Labour Party historian MP Jon Cruddas questioned the present Labour Party leader’s readiness for power, damning him as one who has few ties to the movement’s roots or ideology [more…]
Arts
It’s all become too tiresome (insert meme)
The departure date for a new life outside the United Kingdom is fast approaching. Yes,it is with a very heavy heart that I leave the country I have grown up in and loved. Some will [more…]
Economics
A Murder-Mystery of note?
In 1910, seven men gathered on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, USA, to plot the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank, in order to wrest control of money creation from the US government [more…]