Fiction
Némésis – Ch 8
Ash Shaddadi, the Syrian Governorate of Al Hasakha, December 2017 Darkness was falling and they could smell the petro-chemicals from the oilfields out to the west. The winds had shifted round from the north and [more…]
Blog
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Seven
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. I have been looking out of the window, and it is not very nice outside. I think it is drizzling. The only problem with being confined to the house [more…]
20th Century
From Then To Now
Late autumn 1962 was good to culture. The first James Bond film opened in London on 5 October. The French New Wave was at its height with the release of Cléo de 5 à 7 [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Three
There was an email waiting for him when he returned, a meeting place had been agreed, it was to be at The Oval cricket ground. The message said it had been booked for the entire [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1973
Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon 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 [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 22nd October 2026 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugendhat (Conservative) Ellie Chowns (The Green Party) Stephanie Flanders (Journalist) Geoff Norcott (Comedian) Venue: Scunthorpe Since leaving Cambridge (Selwyn College, History), Wesley Streeting has [more…]
Economics
Will Artificial Intelligence Finally Make Central Planning Work?
In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford Beer to help design a computerised system capable of coordinating the entire national economy. The [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 07 Lords Lambton and Jellicoe
Two ministers in Ted Heath’s government who featured in sex and drugs scandals. If only they had known what Ted was alleged to be up to. This was exposed by the News of the World [more…]
Economics
Gold amid the slow unravelling
The recent reaction in the gold market to the September US inflation data offers a textbook illustration of how short-term speculative noise can obscure and distort longer-term realities. After the CPI print showed a 0.6% [more…]