Hobbies
Owning a Shotgun
A puffin on here has written a series on firearms and their technology up to the 20th century, but what about owning a firearm in the modern day in the UK? What are the laws [more…]
Blog
Authoritarianism
Big Government
I can’t be the only one who has noticed how the solution for any given problem is more government. Spiraling knife crime? The government must ban knives. Plastic waste in the sea? The government [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Thirteen
We had a rendezvous at the reform Club, in London. Lord Bixby had scheduled an appointment there for tonight. I wanted to see who his companions were and if they were showing up. Maybe they [more…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 21
August 28th, 1810 (August 16th O.S.). Finally we are through the strait between Asia and America. After our long sojourn in a region where the chart shows only pictures of sea monsters, we are again [more…]
Elections
Postal Voting, Overseas and General Statistics
After the description of how Postal Voting works and by implication, how much it must cost, it seemed worth while looking at the number of overseas postal voters. These should mainly be people who have [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 15
As with America, I went back and forward, back and forward to the Philippine Islands for about five years, but will tell the tale as one continuous story, in situ over there, perhaps including an [more…]
Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th May 2019 Panel: Anna Soubry (Standing-At-the-Back-Looking-Mad-and-Barking-at-the-Moon Party) Amber Rudd (Standing-on-Beachy-Head-Contemplating-Jumping-to-EULand Party) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour Shadow Economics Secretary. Standing-Anywhere-You-Want-Me-To Party) John Mills (Chair of Labour Leave until last year. Donated £1.65 million to [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Northampton. On the panel: Amber Rudd MP, secretary of state for Work and Pensions and former home secretary, Conservative; Jonathan [more…]
Elections
Postal Voting, What Goes On
Postal Voting has been brought into disrepute with the wholesale abuse of the system by various sections of the population. The mechanics of handling the postal vote are time consuming and certainly not cheap. The [more…]