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In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 2383 Comments

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3352 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’

30th April 2025 Going Postal 1842 Comments

This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]

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The Reece Committee: Lessons from history

30th April 2025 Going Postal 2333 Comments

In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the Cold War and growing concerns over potential clandestine efforts at internal subversion, the United States Congress launched an investigation into the activities of major tax-exempt foundations. [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2027 Comments

How I miss Question Time. One hankers after £30,000-an-hour Fiona Bruce pontificating on inequality before a representative audience of progressive liberals who have a relative at the BBC. As our £110,000-a-year elected representatives take a [more…]

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Fitzroy Maclean

23rd April 2025 Going Postal 2626 Comments

When you hear the name Fitzroy Maclean, what comes to mind? For many, it’s his role as a founding member of the SAS, those daring desert raiders of World War II. Others might recall his [more…]

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The RSM

16th April 2025 Going Postal 1765 Comments

As we enter a weekend with Parliament being recalled to discuss something about Steel, it seems time to recall the last time I was near Scunthorpe while in the Army. A slight bit of History [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1976

11th April 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2270 Comments

Featured song: ABBA – Dancing Queen 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 it. One [more…]

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The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife: A Blade Forged in War

9th April 2025 Going Postal 2471 Comments

The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, often simply called the “F-S knife,” is one of the most iconic combat blades in history. Designed during World War II by two British close-combat experts, William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric [more…]

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