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Postcard From Canada (An Overview)
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and [more…]
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Beers of The Black Country
Beer and pubs are an important part of Black Country life. There are many historical and highly praised breweries, even though they are not often heard of outside of the West Midlands area. In this [more…]
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A New Dark Age
Godfrey Bloom recently made an appearance on Infowars with Alex Jones where he stated we are heading into a new Dark Age. I don’t think he’s far off the mark at all. We’ve already had [more…]
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Henry V’s Agincourt Campaign – Part One
On a wet and dank evening of the 24th October 1415, a small English Army of some 812 Men-at-arms and 3,073 foot and mounted archers tried to find what shelter they could and waited for [more…]
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Postcard From Eorforwic
‘Eboracum, Eoforwic, so good they named it Jorvik’ as that lovely song by Leonard Bernstein goes. I used to know dear old York quite well back in the day, and it certainly was my kind [more…]
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#FreeTommy
I travelled to Leeds with my son on Friday night to see Huddersfield Giants play the Rhinos at Headingley. It has to be said, hopes were not high of a good result for the Giants. [more…]
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Immigration and Integration
It’s so difficult to write this article. I have never gone through so many re-writes. Then I came across this article that sums up what I was trying to say. It goes back to something [more…]
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Free Tommy Robinson March – Whitehall June 9th
3.00 pm – 7.00 pm, meeting 2.30 pm Trafalgar Square – stewards in high-viz vests 3.00 pm Staging area opposite Cenotaph (According to Katie Hopkins).
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Class Reappraised
The last close examination of the English class system was over twenty five years ago, Jilly Cooper͛s frighteningly accurate and wickedly funny book which still works in part. I was musing on the class system [more…]
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Germany Abolishes Itself, Part Four
Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Germany abolishes itself) is the name of a gloomy state-of-the- homeland analysis by former banker and politician Thilo Sarrazin. His main argument was that mass immigration has brought few or no [more…]
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This Septic Eye – The Acceptance Speech
ER: “Philip, is he still here then, the Septic Eye fellow?” DoE: “I think so, thought he’d buggered off but he’s back like a bad penny. What does he bloody want now?” Thanks Maj and [more…]
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Postscript – Abortion law in Ireland is torn up
In a previous GP article I tried to understand the forces at play in the Irish abortion campaign. What follows is a postscript. The final result was: 66.4% for Yes / Repeal the 8th Amendment [more…]
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The Sunday Sermon with the Church of Going Postal
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah brothers, Hallelujah sisters, and the rest of you. Welcome to the Church of Going Postal. Some of the new arrivals may seem to have rather odd ways and the vicar [more…]
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Germany Abolishes Itself, Part Three
Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Germany abolishes itself) is the name of a gloomy state-of-the- homeland analysis by former banker and politician Thilo Sarrazin. His main argument was that mass immigration has brought few or no [more…]
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This Septic Eye, Ch 12
The Clooneys and the Elton-Johns were not the only people attending a wedding last week, yours truly was also present at some family nuptials just a few short days ago. Our little gathering unhappily lacked [more…]
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Reality plus – the next “big thing”?
Since leaving University over 30 years ago I have worked in the Information Technology sector and have always been interested in how IT evolves, both driving and being driven by new and innovative technologies. I’ve [more…]
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Postcard from Cardiff Bay
You may think this is lazy writing and cheating somewhat as I live in Cardiff. And you would be absolutely right. But that doesn’t mean this isn’t an interesting walk and a good place to [more…]