20th Century
Advertising
Advertising seems to be almost everywhere these days, I don’t really object to it in principle as, without it, much of the world as we know it would look very different, but much modern advertising [more…]
21st Century
20th Century
The Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Featured song: ABBA – Waterloo Yes, it’s ghey, ghey, ghey, but it is fun. Music is generally awful with the occasional gems. I find the voting to be one of the funniest things to watch [more…]
21st Century
A Hard Bunch Of Old Folkers
This a true story, and for once I can be unusually precise as to the date: towards the end of July in 1982. I was living in North Yorkshire at the time, and me and [more…]
21st Century
The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*
Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]
20th Century
Strands from the Yellow Vests
Labelling Leave voters racist bigots did not end “well” in Spring 2016. Neither did calling Trump supporters a basket of deplorables in September 2016. Now it is the turn of the French Gilets Jaunes, in [more…]
21st Century
The Quisling Parliament
“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” Vassal Status – Pay and Obey Without any Say This week the betrayal of the British people will be both laid bare and complete. Given recent events we can only conclude [more…]