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20th Century

Unlikely Battle Honours

9th December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

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…]

20th Century

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Seven

6th December 2023 Going Postal 0

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 0

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 0

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…]

20th Century

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Six

29th November 2023 Going Postal 0

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…]

20th Century

Report From Israel, 1957 – Part One

28th November 2023 Going Postal 0

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the first of his reports. – Jerry F You can learn a lot about a man in 24 hours. Particularly when [more…]

20th Century

Rievaulx Abbey And Robin Hood’s Bay

25th November 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

My grandparents’ and father’s 1935 summer holiday in Redcar allowed for a day trip opportunity to Rievaulx Abbey which sits about the halfway point in the fifty or so miles that separate the North East [more…]

20th Century

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Five

22nd November 2023 Going Postal 0

Tunisia 2010 The plan for regime change borrowed the model used to remove the Shah of Iran and the return of Imam Khomeini. On 17 December 2010, street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire [more…]

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A View (A Good Few Miles) From The Greenhouse; Cancel Culture….innit?

21st November 2023 Colin Cross 0

The year rolls on, it doesn’t seem two minutes since I was setting the tomato seed and it’s now only five weeks until Christmas Day! Where on earth does all that time go? There’s less [more…]

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