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Larry’s Diary Week Fourteen

8th December 2019 Going Postal 2008 Comments

Monday As usual it’s been a fairly uneventful weekend here on the Downing Street estate. I caught sight of a mouse in the garden yesterday, but it shot into the Foreign Office so I left [more…]

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Larry’s Diary Week Thirteen

1st December 2019 Going Postal 1946 Comments

Monday It was a pretty quiet day yesterday so I was able to laze around a bit. I undertook a few patrols of the estate just to make sure that Mickey and his mates weren’t [more…]

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Dear Son

25th November 2019 Going Postal 2994 Comments

Dear Son, As you start your career in the Royal Air Force I wanted to mark the occasion by writing to you personally – in the form of a hand written letter. Now, it may [more…]

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Callsign Revlon

24th November 2019 Æthelberht 2739 Comments

On 25th October 1994 29 year old US Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was killed whilst attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean. The case remains highly controversial to [more…]

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The Sinking of the MS Estonia – 28th September 1994

21st November 2019 Blown Periphery 2679 Comments

The History of the MS Estonia On Wednesday 28th September 1994 at 01:50 (UTC +2) the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea during a storm, on a routine crossing from the port of Tallinn [more…]

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Confessions of a Legitimate Bastard

11th November 2019 Rookwood 2657 Comments

Some of you will be expecting this article to be based around instructions on how to be an absolute, grade 1, greasy shit. Looking at the state of the UK over past few decades, there [more…]

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Postcard From Zakynthos

4th November 2019 Colin Cross 3011 Comments

It isn’t just about swanning around the Lake District, visiting friends in Devon, Air B&B’ing to Barcelona, holidaying on the West coast of Scotland  or nipping down to Essex for a couple of beers. There [more…]

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Larry’s Diary Week Ten

3rd November 2019 Going Postal 2104 Comments

Monday Another new week and still a stand-in feeding me, fortunately this one likes the radio on LBC and I can listen to Nick Ferrari while I eat. He had an interview with the Saj [more…]

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Queerness, Civilization and its Discontents

1st November 2019 honey the monster 3503 Comments

Foreward: I’m cross posting this in a couple of places. It’s bound to be a dramatically unpopular piece wherever I post it, but I’m providing it in hopes to stir thought on the subject, if [more…]

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