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Postcard From Osh

2nd February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

A promise was made to Puffins regarding a dispatch from Kazakhstan to report upon the fighting between Kazakh forces, Russian paratroopers and ‘fuel protestors’. Located at Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, a correspondent was only 12 miles [more…]

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Postcard From Kyrgyzstan

5th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell Swiss Bob but haven’t got round to. Perhaps you could oblige? Next time you bump into him, drop into the conversation that, after two years sitting around on [more…]

Arts

Film Review: The Third Man

10th June 2021 Going Postal 0

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…]

Authoritarianism

So……….. Why do our Political & Corporatist Classes love Chyyyyna?

8th June 2021 Going Postal 0

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…]

20th Century

The Spy Who Went Into The Deep Freeze

19th May 2021 Going Postal 0

Kim Philby. For those of a certain age, the name conjures up an indicator as to the decline in British post-war influence abroad. His charmed connections within society enabling him to bypass interrogation over material [more…]

20th Century

Operation Teapot

9th November 2020 SharpieType301 0

In the current extremely uncertain days, I don’t know about you, but my thoughts have been regularly wandering off into ‘what if’ territory. I’ve been pondering what ‘might’ happen, what is important to me, and [more…]

20th Century

Communist Flip Flops

22nd January 2020 well_chuffed 0

The aspiration for this article is to enlighten some Puffins about the several about-turns the Communists were forced into before, during and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, [more…]

20th Century

John Stonehouse

21st November 2018 Going Postal 0

Today’s brief piece recalls a disappearing act that caused somewhat of a stir back in the day that I’m sure many of you will remember.  The brief career of a rapidly rising star and his [more…]

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