20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1995
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1995 Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on [more…]
History
Arts
Film Review: The Third Man
The Third Man is a wonderfully evocative, innovative, and fascinating film, directed by Carol Reed with the screenplay by Graham Greene, set in the dystopian ruins and chaos of immediate post-WW2 Vienna, which at that [more…]
Arts
Postcard from Romania – Part Four
Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]
20th Century
Enigma deception
A typical three wheeled Enigma with inspection cover open and showing the three wheels in position. When the Second World War began, three wheels became five. There is a scene in the film The Imitation [more…]
Arts
Rosebud in June
Here’s a welcome to the busting-out-all-over month of June. As you know, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. An ache for home according to the Greeks, and perfectly understandable if you were in your [more…]
Authoritarianism
So……….. Why do our Political & Corporatist Classes love Chyyyyna?
In a recent Spectator article, Niall Ferguson worried about the infatuation that the ruling class of the West have for the Chinese system of governance & their clear desire to imitate it. Unfortunately, he fails [more…]
Arts
19th Century
Britain’s Forgotten Railways – The Stainmore Railway – part 1
My grandfather spent his working life as a fireman on the railways and my father, having grown up living next to a busy railway line, was a big railway enthusiast so it’s perhaps not surprising [more…]
17th Century
Book Review: The Noble Revolt by John Adamson
So, you know all about the causes of and lead up to the English Civil War? John Pym was leader of the Parliamentarian party, it was all about taxation or religious tolerance… Everyone knows that, [more…]