Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Fourteen
Jinnie’s team had planned the mission well so far, the resistance had a car waiting for her on the beach road and she was in it and heading for Le Havre and a Paris train [more…]
Blog
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 7th April 2022 The Panel: Gregg Hands (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury) Zing Tsjeng (VICE UK) Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) Venue: Canterbury Back in the day, when an [more…]
Computing
Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Three
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Elite Theory of Power
“Power is not a means; it is an end.” – O’Brien, George Orwell, 1984. “Only power can control power.” James Burnham, The Machiavellians In this essay, I will attempt to summarise the elite theory of [more…]
20th Century
The Crime Reporter, Part 1
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) As long as there have been newspapers there have been crime reporters. For crime is as [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From The Greenhouse; The Truth Of The Matter
I’ve mentioned the “yawk” up before, although it’s fair to say I may have miss-spelled it in the past. Suffice to say, the term has nothing whatsoever to do with the fine city of York [more…]
20th Century
Faith, Hope and Charity
This is the story of a few Gloster Sea Gladiators that were on Malta before the Italians declared war upon us and our Empire. There are umpteen versions of this story, this one is taken [more…]
Fiction
Nanny Knows Best – Prologue
“And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened.” The Client gurgled in satisfaction as Nanny eased him back into his Chair™ [more…]
Economics
Reality begins to dawn
Shortly before the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, BBC2’s “Newsnight” featured Kirsty Wark interviewing two economic experts, one Conservative, one Labour. She asked each of them to describe the measures they would recommend to the Chancellor, Rishi [more…]