Hobbies
Crossword No. 183
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a choice of GP authored book. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 182 and a GP [more…]
Blog
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Five – Joe Brown
If I get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Eight
On Sunday morning Jinnie awoke at her normal time of just before seven the flat was quiet with none of the grunts and groans of last night so she assumed Carol and Jason were still [more…]
Arts
GB News Review
GB News 12th August 2021 Present: Simon Weston (Veteran) Nigel Farage (Broadcaster) Venue: Pints of View On the ‘Pints of View’ segment of his Nigel Farage Show, the ebullient host welcomed Falklands veteran Simon Weston. [more…]
20th Century
Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Six
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
Arts
Glesga Gang Goings-on Bloodbath
Having put Apsana Begum MP’s Bengali Benefits bother to bed, GP’s Bloodbath investigative team retired to the couch, hoping never again to be involved in the likes of Tower Hamlets and its South Asian political, [more…]
Mathematics
It’s all about the half time oranges!
I’ve often wondered whether there is a time in a football match that is the most likely point at which a goal might be scored. Perhaps in the first few minutes when the goalie is [more…]
Health
Spurious COVID-19 Case Numbers
Here’s an unexpected ray of sunshine, much like a mid August day in the UK. The DT reports that Sir Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford vaccine project has said, to an all party Covid [more…]
Conservatives
Growing In A Pandemic; Blackbirdgate; Show edition; Cult Of Boris
It’s easy to get carried along on a tide of populism, although it’s often dependent on what your view or definition of populism is. The dictionary defines it broadly as “a political approach that strives [more…]