History
The End of the British Monarchy?
It grieves me deeply to have to write this piece, I am a staunch monarchist as are my forbears & extended family, I hold the Queen’s Commission as did my father & have written extensively [more…]
History
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1967
Featured Album: The Monkees This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link for [more…]
20th Century
JFK Behind the Curtain, Part 2
Jack & Bobby Kennedy were even tougher than their most ardent supporters could imagine. They had seemingly coasted through nearly three years of Presidency with the attendant domestic & foreign crises, but in reality they [more…]
20th Century
Money, Corruption and Power: The Stolen Elections of Lyndon Johnson – Part 1
“I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it, and how to use it.” – Lyndon Johnson [The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Volume 3: Master [more…]
20th Century
JFK Behind the Curtain, Part 1
I’m supposing that every Puffin of a certain age would remember where they were when the news broke in the afternoon of November 22nd 1963, America’s darkest Friday. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been gunned [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1966
Featured Album: The Mama’s & The Papa’s If you can believe your eyes and ears This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I [more…]
Arts
Protecting The NHS, Hepatitis C, Covid-19 and The Rest. A Personal Account
Sixty nine years ago, give or take a week or so, I was delivered into this world. My mother gave birth to me in what was then known as “the huts”, a collection of prefabricated [more…]
20th Century
Benford’s Law
Benford’s Law is a theory of leading digits in numerical data sets. Whilst one might think that the frequency of the leading digit would be equally distributed across the nine digits each with approximately 11% [more…]
20th Century
Men in Crates
The ripping yarns of derring-do served up by AWS are green in our memory, but here’s a caper that is more a case of derring-didn’t. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Umaru Abdulrahman Dikko [more…]