Communism
Everyone’s favourite villain
Of course there are only a handful of candidates for the title of everyone’s favourite villain and in this case it is Klaus Schwab. He has been known as the King of Davos for 55 [more…]
Blog
Literature
An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Six
Good to see South Wales Police concentrating their efforts (and our money) on the really, really, important aspects of blatant criminality. We have residential parking; fourteen places with allocated bays but on any day at [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety
Monday Good morning, all my lovely readers. I wasn’t looking forward to waking up to another wet morning, but the forecasters seem to have got it wrong again, as when I trotted down the garden [more…]
Arts
Book Review, ‘Karla’s Choice’ by Nick Harkaway
The children have a WhatsApp group where they conspire to buy me useful things for Christmas and birthdays. This is a big improvement on the old scattergun approach, where everyone either bought me the same [more…]
Fiction
The Past is Present, Chapter Seventeen
On Thursday morning Dave packed ready for London, he Ubered for a couple of hours to pass the time. He was ready waiting for Sally to return from work, she dropped him off at the [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1983
Featured song: Spandau Ballet – True This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
Authoritarianism
Do You Still Believe Anything You Read?
Apologies in advance to Larry and his scribe WorthingGooner for pre-empting part of this coming Sunday’s ever popular and always entertaining Larry’s Diary, but something has cropped up and I think all G-P authors, commenters [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Twenty-Two
The pool deck and the grounds of the TT Ennios St James Bay were lit up by coloured lights and it was crowded. There was a long line of trestle tables laden with food. Three [more…]
Economics
More Thoughts on the BRICS and Gold vs. the US and the Dollar
In a previous article I suggested that the BRICS, lead by China and Russia, might offer an alternative international trade settlement system that would be independent of the US and the dollar. The BRICS have [more…]