20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1975
Featured Album: ABBA – ABBA 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 [more…]
Blog
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Two
Jinnie loved her weekly whist classes, but she knew better than to discuss what she learnt with anyone, especially her boyfriend Hans. He was in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and took it very seriously. He [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st January 2021 Panel: Arlene Foster (DUP) Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Anand Menon (Politics Professor) Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein) Venue: Northern Ireland Not surprisingly, there’s a consensus abroad that mental health [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Northern Ireland. On the panel are: Brandon Lewis MP, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Conservative, Louise Haigh MP, shadow [more…]
Arts
The Question Time That Never Was
Panel: John Bercow (Former Speaker of the House of Commons) David Davis (Conservative) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Sir Rupert Soames (Businessman) Venue: The Cutting Room Floor The most recent complete series of BBC Question Time consisted [more…]
America
Hasta la Vista, DJT…… An Attempted Dispassionate Appraisal 2016-2020
Puffinati, lend me your ears; I come to bury DJT, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with [more…]
Economics
How Germany Can Save Civilization
How Germany Can Liberate Its and Our Society from Impending Economic Collapse The unholy alliance between accommodating central banks and spendthrift governments, born of Keynesian economics, will cause the collapse of the Western world’s fiat [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 6
In earlier parts of my story I described in general terms why and how I started educating myself about sailing and the main technical things to look out for in a yacht’s design and specification. [more…]
Business
Italy: The latest front of war on cash
Together with Germans and Greeks, Italians have long been the most stubborn and steadfast of Europeans in their love of cash. For years, they have resisted cards and digital payments and viewed with deep suspicion [more…]