20th Century
About Little Women
We play a game at work with girls’ heights. There is a reason for this. Colleagues are going to build a tunnel to the shop next door and steal their toys. To confuse the local [more…]
Arts
21st Century
Last Bastion of the Colonial Home Guard
The Home Guard is institutionalised at the National Police Service and is evident in the lives that have been claimed through state-sanctioned violence during the ongoing Gen Z protests. 14 August 2024 According to a [more…]
20th Century
Report From Kenya 1955, Part Nine
On his way home from reporting on Kenya for the Birmingham Mail in 1955, my uncle John Alldridge filed this report from Uganda – Jerry F Colour problem in reverse Almost 50 years ago another [more…]
Arts
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]
Journalism
Boiling Point
July saw a series of high-profile racial attacks with white people as the victims. Anthony Esan, a black man, was charged with attempted murder over the stabbing of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton near Gillingham’s Brompton [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1961
Featured song: The Shadows – FBI – as performed on Crackerjack (It’s Friday what do we all say?) This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper [more…]
Arts
Sock Puppets
Have you noticed how easily the left get the rest of us and especially the right to read tweets or watch a short video of a left-wing politician or indeed any Schwab type person? They [more…]
20th Century
Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel’s Photograph Collection
The Vietnam War started in 1955 and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975 when the Americans left in a hurry. It has been described as the first televised war but a claim to [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Four
Monday Good morning and what a fabulous one it is, not a cloud in the sky and my it’s warm. I am a bit disappointed with the Olympics so far, as I write this we [more…]