Health
Time to say goodbye to the NHS
Our Story I write this as a person rather than one of my OTF articles. I feel compelled to write it after our recent experience with the NHS. Some of you know whereabouts I live [more…]
Blog
Book Review
Book Review: Across Atlantic Ice: the origin of America’s Clovis culture
Half an academic dry tome and half one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, this book lays out the evidence for what is known as ‘the Solutrean hypothesis’. It’s basically trying to answer [more…]
Capitalism
Testing the Socialist hypothesis
Kristian Niemitz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, wrote a book last year that explores the reasons why the idea of socialism persists as a viable economic system. In “Socialism: the Failed [more…]
20th Century
The USA’s gradual slide into WW2
Conventional wisdom has it that prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the USA was sitting pretty and ignoring what was going on in the world. To an isolationist American public this was exactly [more…]
Animals
Larrys Diary – Week One Hundred And Ninety-Eight
Monday Hello everyone for favourite cat reporter here ready to bring you all the news and rumours I hear in the corridors of power. This morning I had my normal trip down to the bottom [more…]
20th Century
North Wales Holiday – 1932
In the summer of 1932, my grandfather and his pregnant wife set off in a motorcycle and sidecar for a motoring tour of North Wales. In our last episode we recalled their stop in Liverpool. [more…]
Biography
Goodbye to School Hello to Work, Part Five
Part one is here Part two is here Part three is here Part Four is here This time: Fallout from the lock in and Eck’s sudden departure I was woken by the alarm going off [more…]
20th Century
G6E3 – Those different ones like what I like (Part 3 of 6)
Welcome pop pickers. This is based on stuff like what I like, there will be various bands and artists to try and cheer you up and kick-start your weekend. Hopefully for many of you, to [more…]
20th Century
South American Journey, Part Three
More writings by uncle, John Alldridge. This time he is reporting from South America in 1960 for the Birmingham Evening Mail – Jerry F Over The Stone Curtain of The Andres Buenos Aires was as [more…]