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The Mossdale Tragedy – Part One

10th October 2019 Blown Periphery 0

History and Early Exploration of the Mossdale Caverns I have always been claustrophobic. Well, that’s not strictly true. I became claustrophobic when my brother locked me inside a cupboard when I was four. Why did [more…]

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Tyler Gatewood Kent

9th October 2019 well_chuffed 0

Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1994

4th October 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

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…]

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The Right Club – Part 2

2nd October 2019 well_chuffed 0

Part 1 was the background to the origins of the Right Club and introduced some of the members who via various other shady organisations eventually joined the club. The very first fascist organisation in the [more…]

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Bollocks to Krauts! Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl

26th August 2019 Going Postal 0

“Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl” was inspired by a story which circulated within dissidents circles when I was a student in Moscow in the early 1980s: several villages in Siberia were so remote [more…]

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Bax of Delights

18th August 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]

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Postcard from Hiroshima

7th August 2019 Going Postal 0

This is a note about my visit to the Peace Memorial Museum at Hiroshima.  Some of what follows is gruesome. I’ve long been interested in military history, and I’ve been fortunate to visit the site [more…]

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The devil is always in the detail

15th June 2019 Rookwood 0

Cast your mind back to the morning of Friday the 2nd of May 1997. The British electorate had overwhelmingly swept Anthony Charles Lynton Blair to power, in a landslide victory that conjures imagery of a [more…]

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Why Germany? Part 2

6th June 2019 Guardian Council 0

After the Second World War, the need was felt to learn the lessons from history and make it impossible for Germany to cause any more catastrophes. Integrating the Federal Republic (aka West Germany) into a [more…]

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