Engineering
Three Gyroscopes – Part 4
Introduction As a child I loved playing about with magnets – I still do. They can move heavy objects – such as lifting cars at a scrap yard. They can also move light (-weight!) objects [more…]
Blog
Cooking
German Potato Salad
In general I am not in favour of things Teutonic though some of their ladies are rather tasty plus the average German man is little short of a pig so if you can be semi [more…]
21st Century
The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*
Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 34
RESPONSES Once again I thank all who read and commented on Part 33 describing my 1997 passage from South West Scotland to Northern Ireland and especially DJM who has shown consistent enthusiasm for this series [more…]
America
A liberal makeover for Minsk
It is often said by “our guys” that the Eastern Europeans are resistant to many of the problems Western Europe and other US vassal states currently experience because of their history of communism, the suggestion [more…]
Arts
Another Caribbean Christmas, Part Five
Day 10 – Sunday 2nd January – At Sea I woke for a pee in the early hours, must have been the beer, and for the first time this cruise I could feel the ship [more…]
Business
Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1
Any catalogue of economic legends would of course include the 2008 visit of Queen Elizabeth to the London School of Economics, when the country was experiencing an unprecedented housing market bubble based on the irrational [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 10th February 2022 The Panel: George Eustice (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Labour) Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru) Sebastian Payne (Financial Times) Laura McAllister (Cardiff University) Venue: Newport Dicks out, announced Fiona Bruce (Chair). Delyth Jewell [more…]
Fiction
Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 24
The Jungle West of the Andes The helicopters had dropped them off the previous night, some six clicks west of their current position. Edge was about ten metres away from Wilson and they were watching [more…]