20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1976
Featured song: ABBA – Dancing Queen 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. One [more…]
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Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 7th March 2019 Panel: Dominic Raab (Tory. Leaver) Iain Martin (Times journalist. Leaver) Owen Jones (“journalist”) Javed Khan (Barnado’s CEO) Margaret Beckett (Labour. Remainer) Venue: Dudley Dudley voted Leave by 71.7% at the [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents Question Time from Dudley. Panellists include former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, who argues the case for a hard Brexit from the backbenches, Dame Margaret Beckett, the [more…]
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Joe Malone, Part Six
Lady Vanessa Bixby is in the office. She has just informed Private Investigator Joe Malone, that Lord Bixby, one of the main Remainers in the country, a high profile politician and activist, peer of the [more…]
19th Century
Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight
Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]
19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 11
September 5th, 1809. It has been a busy month. Our aimless wanderings took us to Guildford, where we have been encamped in a tumbledown barn. The farmer is quite content with our presence, as we [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 7
We’re off to Lille as a family group. We’re travelling by train the length of England from the Bad Lands to the White Cliffs of Dover. And, dear reader, if you will allow me to [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1975
Featured song: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 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. One [more…]
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Awrite ya bunchae f**kin’ bawbags?
Iss Frideh, which is when ah hop oan tha train an scoot back up tae Paisleh tae deal wi’ mah coanstichency mattahs. F**kin’ Scotrail teeket collectah c**t had some f**kin’ cheek, by tha way. “So [more…]