Fiction
The Past is Present, Chapter Two
Jane Goodley was fourteen miles away, sitting on the floor in what had once been an office, it was on the first floor, she remembered being dragged up the stairs, her hands and legs were [more…]
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Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 5
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark Toddle Waddle month, [more…]
21st Century
Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review
Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Seven
Boxing Day was Sint Maarten, a curious, small island, half of which was Dutch, and the other half was French and called Saint Martin. But the Britannia put into Philipsburg, which was on the Dutch [more…]
America
They call him the Great Disruptor
It’s been interesting (but entirely predictable) to see the world reaction to Trump’s tariff speech. I suppose that hysteria is warranted, because what Trump has done is indeed unprecedented and likely to have seismic effects, [more…]
20th Century
America
David Hume’s Insight Explains America’s Economic Decline
Since he was a young up-and-coming property magnate in New York City, Donald Trump has been fixated on what he believes to be foreigners’ cheating on international trading terms to the detriment of the US. [more…]
Culture
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; Englishness
My loyal reader may well remember the buildings and maintenance department, at my request, taking the big saw to the plum tree, which at the time was riddled with canker, if an attempt to encourage [more…]
Politics
Why we Fight, Part Two
A sense of civil war is abroad in “The West” – between liberal remnants who seek to frame globalist values as identical with “Western” values – and a rising populist tide that prefers sanity and order to the politics of national suicide. [more…]