John Martin from Haydon Bridge made his name painting the end of the world, so convincingly that one London gallery had to put a railing round his picture to hold the crowds back. He also [more…]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfrOlB6pXNI Featured Album: David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up [more…]
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent. I’m a long time lurker (early days of Guido Fawkes [more…]
There is a particular species of man that history keeps breeding, the way a swamp keeps breeding mosquitoes — simply because the conditions are irresistible. He arrives at the tail end of an exhausted society, [more…]
At the end of August 1939 my maternal grandmother took the decision that her children would not be evacuated because of the war. My grandfather had little say in the matter and accepted that if [more…]
George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal for 46 years. He drew the line the whole world sets its clocks by, weighed the Earth from the bottom of a coal pit in South Shields and never, [more…]
How did George Soros’s saga of triumph unfold from those nascent days in America? As a young émigré, he had charted a modest course: amass $500,000 in five years, return to England, and immerse himself [more…]
Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every British ship through the storm that followed. He was [more…]
We have had a nuclear deterrent for 72 years or so. It may have deterred someone from dropping a nuclear bomb on us at some point but does it still deter anything. It has no [more…]
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