20th Century
Tyler Gatewood Kent
Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]
Blog
Arts
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Thirty-Three
The door opened and a big man in a bad suit came out. “Hello Leo,” I said to him. “Well, well,” he said back. “Joe Malone. I thought I told you not to come round [more…]
Arts
National Trust AGM 2019 – The Non-Woke Block Vote
I can understand those who walk away from bodies like the National Trust once it become woke, yet when these things happen there is rarely enough of an exodus to drag the organisation back to [more…]
Authoritarianism
Climate Change Protests
Yet another climate protest against our use of fossil fuels. Spokes-persons berate us over air-waves driven by generated electricity carried by steel pylons cemented into the ground. They sit in a studio with its array [more…]
Business
Every Folly Has Its Consequences
The great Spanish master, Francisco Goya, expressed it concisely: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”. Today, wherever you look, insanity masquerades as rational thought. Lunatics flout their blatantly potty views as if they carried the [more…]
Mathematics
Commutativity
A binary operation is said to commute if the order of the operands does not alter the result. In the real numbers, , the following commutative laws hold : for all for all Although these [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Part 13
The Syrian Governorate Raqqa, December 2017. The city of Ar Raqqa Scheherazade Wherever she went in Raqqa, Ripley was constantly followed and almost inundated by children. She had made a mistake, even though she had [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Six
Monday Forget all this Brexit stuff, the big news of the weekend was that it looks like Bozzie Bear and the Little Otter have adopted a rescue dog. Not any old rescue dog, but a [more…]