Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Three
Monday Another week and Brexit is still all I’m hearing as I get stuck into my Breakfast (not sure what this is, I suspect it might be some cheapo stuff from Lidil as they had [more…]
Blog
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 30
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’? If not, as usual, put this nonsense to one side and find a copy. I realised that I wasn’t particularly well read the day I dropped the iPad in the bath. Don’t laugh, it was plugged into the [more…]
Hobbies
Crossword No. 83
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug of your choice, or GP beer mats. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm tomorrow subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last weeks’ winner. [more…]
Arts
Flying Hippo’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th September 2019 Panel: Brandon Lewis (Conservative) John Healey (Labour – long way from home) Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP – even longer way from home) Catherine Barnard (Cambridge academic type specialising in EU law) [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Norwich. On the panel: Brandon Lewis MP, security minister and former Conservative party chairman, Conservative; John Healey MP, shadow housing [more…]
Politics
Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 7
It is six months since the Climate Emergency was declared in the Holme Valley and the variation in temperature I have experienced in this time has been wide – in excess of a 30oC range. [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Slow Death of Democracy in the UK
Events may overtake this piece, but I felt compelled to write after a rather tumultuous week of politics and I think most of what I have to say will still hold true. Since the EU [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Twenty-Nine
Joe Malone has escaped a police raid on his office in The Swarbrick building. He only just made it out, and away across the city. Ch 29 – Malone makes the news. I was sitting [more…]
Conservatives
The Root of all Corruption
Anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past few decades, and certainly post Brexit, will have failed to notice the rot and corruption that enshrouds our institutions, businesses and indeed our [more…]