Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Sixty-Three
Monday Good morning all, there’s a bit of watery sun this morning but it’s a bit chilly. It also a happy day here in No 10 where both Legohead and Robber Reeves are out of [more…]
Blog
20th Century
Christmas Past
If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter Two
Marius Phoned on Thursday afternoon, Dave signed out of his Uber app and drove over to Birmingham. Under his seat was the cash to reimburse the cost of the guns. They met at an old [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1968
Featured song: The Bee Gees – Words 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. [more…]
Authoritarianism
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Six
On the train back to Potters Bar Jinnie suggested that Penny, Dan and Irena should come over for dinner that evening then Irena could meet the twins again. As it was Friday the twins weren’t [more…]
Politics
They’re back (but they never went away)…………
It feels like only yesterday when the global elite nearly succeeded in dragging us into their dystopian narrative, all for the sake of a so-called health emergency that was all about about power rather than [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika” Part Four
In Part 3, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about food parcels he had sent to her, his imaginary coloured pencil sketch of the Nile and his hope [more…]
Business
The Adani Group and India’s Spheres of Influence
Is the Adani Group Narendra Modi’s Trojan Horse in India’s efforts to counterbalance China’s expanding influence across the Indian Ocean and Africa? December 12, 2024 The issues surrounding the Adani Group and its deals in [more…]