Diary
WG’s Christmas Cruise 2025 – Part Two
Sunday 21st December. Sailing Day. There is no mad rush to do anything this morning. Apple Maps tells me it will take 1 hour and twenty minutes to get to the cruise terminal, and I [more…]
Arts
Arts
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Night Manager
An alignment of Le Carrés occurred over Christmas. A new series of The Night Manager dropped on BBC 1 and iPlayer alongside a repeat of the Corporation’s 1979 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, also [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1994
Featured song: Elton John – Circle of Life 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 [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Thirteen
The evening of the day she had booked the family’s first Mediterranean cruise, Jinnie broke the news to the family over dinner. At first, the twins were a little confused and asked if they were [more…]
Diary
WG’s Christmas Cruise 2025 – Part One
The Prologue I really enjoyed last year’s trip to the Caribbean but, there is always a but, I had to settle for a standard seat on the TUI Boeing 787. Despite the huge cost of [more…]
Arts
The Imperative for Reform: Reclaiming British Sovereignty from Foreign Meddling and Supranational Control
In an era of geopolitical uncertainty, economic stagnation, and institutional bloat, the United Kingdom stands at a crossroads. The nation’s governance has been eroded by decades of incremental changes that have diluted parliamentary supremacy, entangled [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Ivory Cutlery’s Albums Of The Year 2025
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, and please be welcome to yet another of our fortnightly fumbles around the dank and sweaty intergluteal cleft of popular culture. Tonight, as we brace [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Twelve
On the way home to Worthing with Paolo driving the Lexus, Jinnie had time to think about her promise to be interviewed and concluded that the SIS would probably prefer her to restrict interviews to [more…]
Arts
Going Postal 2026
Happy New Year puffins. Not sure what 2026 has in store for us but some stoicism is probably in order. Things to look forward to: Summer, Bash, Starmer being helicoptered to Stryker’s Island and the [more…]