Arts
The Swaling, Part Twenty Eight
‘Harry’ Lee Kuan Yew was born in 1923 into a comfortably off Straits family, resident in the Reservoir Road area of Singapore. His father was a Shell Oil company executive, his mother the author or [more…]
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Hobbies
Crossword No. 143
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of Tachybaptus’s book A Bear’s Diary. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 142 – [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1964
Featured Album: In Dreams This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link for [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th November 2020 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) David Davis (Conservative) Lia Nandy (Labour) Rose McGowan (Cultural Resetter) Hanna Fry (Mathematician and TV Presenter) Simon Wolfson (Businessman) Jan (No idea) Venue: Lewisham At the [more…]
Uncategorized
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of Trump Derangement Syndrome from Lewisham. On the panel are: Oliver Dowden MP, secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Conservative, Lisa [more…]
Arts
The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Three
Note: This text is not a translation, but is largely based on Le Suicide Français by Éric Zemmour (2014), from which it quotes heavily, both directly and silently. The analysis is Zemmour’s, not mine, and [more…]
Authoritarianism
Zombie Nation
Britain is no longer great, it has not been for my entire life. I was born just days after the dawn of the Blair horror years in 1997, a year that marked the official end [more…]
Arts
Ramble On!
I must go out for a walk again, just my walking boots and I. And all I ask is an OS map and one of those little plastic wallets to keep it dry. As [more…]
America
The United States is clearly not united, nor was it ever
One of the great historical myths is the American Civil War was fought to abolish slavery. Serious historians know it was neither a civil war, nor was it fought to emancipate slaves. A civil war [more…]