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Another Scarborough Sea Battle

16th December 2023 Always Worth Saying 1646 Comments

Scarborough Castle Scarborough Castle is a significant historical landmark located on the Yorkshire coast. The castle is perched on a rocky promontory, overlooking the North Sea, and has a history that spans nearly 3,000 years. [more…]

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The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Eight

13th December 2023 Going Postal 2264 Comments

The Septics flounce around having overthrown Saddam Hussein under false pretences, then methodically pillaging the country by the Continuity of Government (COG) ensemble, and despite having circa 200,000 troops (and mercenaries on the ground) were [more…]

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Report From Israel, 1957 – Part Two

12th December 2023 Going Postal 2084 Comments

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the second of his reports. – Jerry F Gunfire over Galilee We were sitting on the veranda under that golden guinea [more…]

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The awakening of the working class

12th December 2023 Going Postal 2627 Comments

It is a worn-out cliché that many (if not most) political zealots meet their downfall because of their arrogance. “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall,” the proverb goes, and it does [more…]

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Unlikely Battle Honours

9th December 2023 Always Worth Saying 2131 Comments

Scarborough is a renowned seaside town located in North Yorkshire. It is the most populous town on the Yorkshire coast with a population in the sixty thousands. The town has a rich historical background, with [more…]

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The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Seven

6th December 2023 Going Postal 2715 Comments

With Charles Lynton playing his alphabet soup word games, the West opted to ignore the religionist/secularist opposition which was slowly eating away in the Muslim world, and chose to concentrate their efforts only on the [more…]

20th Century

Next Stop Jungle Junction

2nd December 2023 Always Worth Saying 1810 Comments

Following some confusion regarding a caption mentioning both Southsea and Southampton, your humble reviewer of old photographs realised that the 1949 picture in my grandparents’ family album was of a flying boat called Southsea coming [more…]

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Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part Two

30th November 2023 Going Postal 3096 Comments

Part One is here. If bureaucracy is resilient, then trade is eternal. Far from being a recent development of modern technology, archeological evidence shows global trade predating the Iron Age. In the 3rd millennium B.C., [more…]

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The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Six

29th November 2023 Going Postal 2790 Comments

The Usual Suspects String Pullers Motivational Greed When the USSR collapsed, the Septics’ “elite” believed an extended period of commerce and prosperity would follow the Cold War. However, a section of the Military Industrial Complex [more…]

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