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A (Burts Eye) View From The Greenhouse: The Road To Hell..Etc…Etc…

10th June 2025 Colin Cross 2691 Comments

This scare-crowing lark isn’t the cushy number some folk would have you believe. Granted, it isn’t the most taxing of roles and there’s plenty of time for both reflection and pondering, even if the lack [more…]

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The Great Taking

10th June 2025 Going Postal 3030 Comments

Interview with James Patrick, TheGreatTakingReport.com As many of my clients, friends and regular readers know well, I’ve spent the better part of the last decade criticizing all the great evils and trespasses of the State and [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2101 Comments

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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The good war myth

9th June 2025 well_chuffed 2395 Comments

It has long been a given that World War 2 was a “good war”. The allies were fighting against the beastly Germans and “right” was on their side. A chap called Chad Crowley has put [more…]

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An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-One

8th June 2025 Going Postal 1845 Comments

Great news to see the back of Zia Yusuf.  No place for a muslim Chairman in a party one of whose major tenets should be anti mass immigration and preservation of the British way of [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Four

8th June 2025 Going Postal 2574 Comments

Monday Good morning my happy readers, it’s sunny in the morning but I hear it is going to be showery later. I didn’t remember it was a bank holiday until I saw how empty the [more…]

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Gary Lineker: Parallel Lives

7th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2529 Comments

I only saw Gary Lineker play once. Our local eleven were away to Leicester City in a fourth-round FA Cup tie. This was 1985 – a mere 40 years ago. The game ended in a [more…]

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The Past is Present, Chapter Nine

7th June 2025 Going Postal 2529 Comments

Monday morning was hectic, Sally was out the habit of getting ready for work, she had her story ready for why they had to come home early from their holiday, it was the same one [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1979

6th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2229 Comments

Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]

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