Arts
A Brave New World
Consider if you will, just how much our society has changed in your lifetime. I’m fully aware that at the age of 37 I’m one of the younger denizens of Going Postal, yet I can [more…]
Literature
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Four
Bowson heard through the radio that operational control was being passed to the military, they all knew what that meant. He was summoned back to the temporary situation base in the north-eastern corner of Cavendish [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes – Epilogue Two
Former Detective Inspector Charles Hope became a very successful novelist. He wrote scathingly satirical, comedy novels about the police service, which won him few friends among serving officers and the Police Federation, but a huge [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Three
The man’s no coward, hesitates, part of him wants to fight, sees the young man turn away, crouching low, one rifle over his shoulder, the other grasped in both hands, feet race past the closed [more…]
19th Century
Down the rabbit hole, or Did Lewis Carroll ever visit Llandudno?
The Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno makes great play of its Lewis Carroll connection. In 1933, David Lloyd George unveiled a marble monument of The White Rabbit with a plaque stating “On this very shore [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Two
The Cabinet Office emergency centre was buzzing and crowded: the PM, senior ministers, Met Commissioner and Ted Armstrong, the heads of MI5 and MI6, Director of GCHQ on the phone, senior military officers, the Chief [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes – Epilogue One
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. William Shakespeare The RSM who had told Edge: “I have a feeling that you’ll fuck it up. The [more…]
Fiction
Winnie the Pooh Changes His Name
“I was reading the papers”, said Pooh, “And I noticed a thrilling trend, which I am going to embrace”. “God save us”, thought Eeyore, “Another day, another bandwagon. He just can’t help himself”, but in [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty One
The television was on, set to Sky News while her laptop was streaming the BBC news feed direct from Broadcasting House news centre, the cameras still viewing and broadcasting: it was like the Marie Celeste, [more…]