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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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Graveyard Shift

19th February 2019 bobo 4211 Comments

I used to work in a cemetery. It was a dead-end job, but you could always bury yourself in your work! Oh, ho ho ho! I humbly beg your pardon. I shall start again. I [more…]

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Æthelberht’s RFA Christmas

27th December 2018 Æthelberht 4067 Comments

I know there’s plenty of former Pusser types on GP, and even a few who have sailed under the red duster. They’ll all be familiar with the Christmas routines for their respective outfits. I thought [more…]

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The Right Way To Put Out A Fire (Finally)

4th December 2018 Æthelberht 3760 Comments

In March 2013 I was appointed to RFA Fort Austin. Within NATO she is classified as an AFSH, that’s to say a combat stores ship with the necessary facilities on board to embark a helicopter. [more…]

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Still Not The Right Way To Put Out A Fire

20th November 2018 Æthelberht 3008 Comments

You may remember some months back I related a story of my first fire exercise sailing under the Red Duster. I was somewhat unimpressed having come from a different seafaring outfit where these things were [more…]

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The Valet’s Tale

6th September 2018 Going Postal 4005 Comments

  My name is William Carew and, until recent events unfolded, I was the valet to Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donat’s Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.  I entered his service while he was [more…]

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The Wrong Way to Put Out a Fire

8th June 2018 Æthelberht 2091 Comments

When I left the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 2015 I joined a shipping company operating out of Barrow-in-Furness. It was a very small outfit which specialised in carrying nuclear cargo between Europe, the US and [more…]

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Review – Hugh Trevor-Roper: the biography

2nd March 2018 Going Postal 1649 Comments

When I first spotted this book in the library, I wasn’t sure whether or not to pick it up – I already had an armful to take out, and wasn’t looking for another one. Like, [more…]

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John Enoch Powell, MBE

24th August 2017 Jwp 1 Comment

If time could be conflated and the men of yesteryear come face to face with those of today…. I have sometimes wondered what JEP would say if he was here to speak to our present [more…]

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