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Postcard From Osh

2nd February 2022 Always Worth Saying 1996 Comments

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 2587 Comments

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…]

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Film Review: The Third Man

10th June 2021 Going Postal 2203 Comments

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…]

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

8th June 2021 Going Postal 1946 Comments

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…]

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The Spy Who Went Into The Deep Freeze

19th May 2021 Going Postal 2055 Comments

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…]

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Operation Teapot

9th November 2020 SharpieType301 4347 Comments

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…]

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Communist Flip Flops

22nd January 2020 well_chuffed 2301 Comments

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…]

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John Stonehouse

21st November 2018 Going Postal 2878 Comments

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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