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How Puffins Are Made

13th November 2019 Going Postal 3154 Comments

This post was inspired by Tiredofeulies, who lamented the fact (and it is a fact) that the younger generation seem so entirely unable to understand any concern the older generation might have for the direction [more…]

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Confessions of a Legitimate Bastard

11th November 2019 Rookwood 2658 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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So Farewell then John Simon Berkowitz

5th November 2019 Viciousbutfair 2808 Comments

In the foreplay preceding the election of the new Speaker I had a conversation with a friend regarding the significance and power of this position. He was of the opinion that this was a token [more…]

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The Erdington Chapter

31st October 2019 bobo 3751 Comments

‘Brothir, seyede Sir Launcelot, wyte you well I am full loth to departe out of thys reyllme, but that the Quene hath defended me so hyghly that mesemmeth she wyll nevir be my gode ladye [more…]

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Meet Markos Vamvakaris (“Mark Cotton”) – Patriarch of Rebetiko

29th August 2019 Going Postal 3563 Comments

Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]

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Temporary Jobs

22nd August 2019 Going Postal 2920 Comments

I was saddened to learn that Richard Williams has died. He was the Richard Williams of Cartoons. Proper real cartoons with animators drawing the sequences on celluloid just like the Disney bods did back in [more…]

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Bax of Delights

18th August 2019 Roger Ackroyd 3428 Comments

There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]

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Lieutenant Rory Stewart – Traveller, Soldier, Gentleman

27th June 2019 DH 2583 Comments

In the year of our Lord 2002, a remarkable young soldier by the name of Roderick James Nugent Stewart took some good old fashioned shooting leave in Afghanistan. Upon his return to Britain, he documented [more…]

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Anna Soubry

2nd April 2019 Going Postal 5606 Comments

I first came across Anna Soubry MP on an edition of BBC Question Time four or five years ago. Until this auspicious moment I confess I had never heard of the Conservative Member of Parliament [more…]

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