Hobbies
Crossword No. 116
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 115 Blackfritz. Answers with next week’s crossword. [more…]
Blog
20th Century
The Wrecking Crew
Wiki: “The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognised in their [more…]
18th Century
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th April 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Jeane Freeman (Scotish National Party) Sir Paul Nurse (Medical Expert) George Osborne (Journalist) Venue: Leeds Surgeon General, and inventor of the syringe, Nobel [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London with pre-recorded questions from Leeds and questions and comments from social media. On the panel are: Grant Shapps [more…]
Arts
One Night in Dezhou
In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. Here, the journey resumes with an unintended stopover in the crappy end of Dezhou, an obscure industrial [more…]
19th Century
The Silver Pit
Some of you may remember that some time ago I wrote an article about my family tree research and how I’d discovered many interesting things about my family history. One thing I learned was that [more…]
Arts
Britain under lockdown
In the space of a few weeks, the Overton window has been moved so far to the left, it has shattered. Whereas before teh virus, the left were only talking about refusing treatment to smokers and [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Nine
What we are going to do, is you are going to telephone the BBC. Then we are all going to head to the BBC studios and get you onto the television. You’re going to be [more…]