Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 13
Over chai in the subcontinent, balut in the tropics or roast swan in an Oxbridge refectory the topic of conversation might turn to ‘given the chance, would you kill baby Hitler?’ In Latin this would [more…]
Arts
Arts
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th April 2019 Panel: Caroline Lucas: Green MP (Remain) Vince Cable: LibDem MP (Remain) John Ashworth: Labour MP (Remain) Victoria Atkins (Tory MP Remain) John Rhys-Davies (Actor. Leaver) Venue: Nottingham In the first [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents Question Time from Nottingham with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. On the panel are: Victoria Atkins MP, crime [more…]
Arts
Winnie The Pooh and the Brexit Delivery Group
“So,” said Pooh, scanning the assembled animals who had joined his Brexit Delivery Group under the misapprehension that there would be free biscuits and tea, “Following the Downing Street Coup, we have been given the [more…]
Arts
Euthanasia Machine
It all started innocently enough with my dad. Namely, with a botched Chinese take away for his 79th anniversary. He got so badly over it he had to go to hospital and had to stay [more…]
Christianity
Ezekiel – The Mystical Prophet Part 1
The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel is regarded as one of the three major prophetic books of the Old Testament, behind Isaiah and Jeremiah. After a period in the middle 20th century when scholars tended to [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 12
I had an uncle who was an excellent chap from a very proud, hardworking but rather modest background. He’s the one who was on the railway (a reserved profession) during the war but managed to [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Lille, Part 11
You may wonder, dear reader, after ten episodes and a prologue, where all this is leading. It certainly doesn’t seem to be leading to Lille. Bear with me. You’ll recall that, for obvious reasons, the [more…]
Computing
Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks
We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]