Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 5
We are on our way to France as a family group. We are travelling first class and the serotonin is high. I’m a ‘look out of the window’ kind of person and, as we travel [more…]
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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 7th February 2019 Venue: Motherwell Motherwell used to be the steel-making capital of Scotland. Ravenscraig was the main employer of some 13,000 people by the 1970’s but a disastrous strike of steel workers [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents debate from Motherwell, with a panel of politicians wankpuffins and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. Set your Disqus comments to ‘newest’. Do not [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Three
This tale is in the near future. The United Kingdom has left and not left the European Union. The country is united by division. Everything is just like it is today, only more so. The [more…]
19th Century
Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Five
Introduction By inducing a projectile to spin around its own axis its flight is stabilised and accuracy and range are vastly improved. Rifling a barrel by cutting spiral grooves in a variety of forms and [more…]
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Postcard from Lille, Part 4
We are a family group en route to the near continent travelling by first class train to London. It’s November and the English countryside is touched by frost and gentle mist. As we head south, [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1971
Featured song: Slade: Cuz I Love You This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Richard Burgon (Labour Remainer and prolific exhaler of hot air – from both ends) Gina Miller (Busybody Remainer) Helen Whately (Tory Remainer and recipient of Saudi Arabian largesse) Camilla Tominey (DT deputy editor and Leaver) [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Lincoln. On the panel are vice chair for women of the Conservative Party, wimmin’z list Helen Whately MP, shadow justice secretary and shadow chancellor [more…]