Hobbies
Crossword No. 123
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. 122 Glazinova. Answers with next week’s crossword. [more…]
Blog
19th Century
Oysters 2½ Ways
“O Oysters,’ said the Carpenter, You’ve had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?’ But answer came there none — And this was scarcely odd, because They’d eaten every one.” The final verse [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 18th June 2020 Panel: James Cleverly (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat) Jed Mercurio (Writer) Steve Parish (Businessman) Venue: Plymouth The expert who advised Thomas Guy to put his money into [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents topical debate with an audience from Plymouth. On the panel are: James Cleverly MP, former Conservative Party chairman, now minister for the Middle East and North [more…]
Arts
Slow train to Mokpo
After a month near Suwon studying the language, I felt ready for the road. I didn’t really have a travel plan. I just wanted to see as much of the country as I could over [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Great Lie of All Tyrants
The forces of totalitarianism have been chiseling away feverishly at our liberties for many years now. Their efforts have taken the guise of radical equalitarianism (income redistribution), radical diversity (whom one may hire or accept [more…]
20th Century
The Spitfire, of course, Part 2
A couple of years ago I wrote an article here concerning the design of the Spitfire and questioned its status as the best fighter of WWII. I mentioned in that article a follow up piece [more…]
Arts
PMQs with Going Postal
Agenda Prime Minister’s Question Time Featured image Robert Pittman – Licence CC BY-ND 2.0
Arts
Book Review: Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
A while ago this reviewer attended a lecture. The subject was ten books that had changed the world. Delivered by Melvyn Bragg, author of a work of the same name, having been talked through three [more…]