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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 0

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls

15th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more…]

Foxoles, Going Postal
20th Century

A Different Class of Murder, by Laura Thompson

1st April 2020 Going Postal 0

We Brits love a mystery, and they don’t come much more mysterious than Lord Lucan. There are lots of books out there about the Lucan case – those of us who were around then will [more…]

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Some Things to do in Lockdown

19th March 2020 Jonathon Davies 0

Well frens, it’s been a little while since I’ve written. Dad passing away, sorting his affairs, loss of old job, moving to new job, very busy. One thing to come out of it all is [more…]

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Book review – The Unseen Path by J.D. de Pavilly

20th February 2020 Rookwood 0

Normally in book reviews, the reviewer will attempt to outline the plot and genre of the work without giving too much of the game away. To do so in this instance, would be no easy [more…]

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Sinking the enemy BBC style

13th February 2020 Going Postal 0

When I heard through a third-party that the BBC was planning, and I quote, ‘to sink’ my new book about them I wasn’t that surprised. After all, the theme of ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales [more…]

Roger Ackroyd, Going Postal
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Tales from the Crypt

16th January 2020 Roger Ackroyd 0

The recent screening of Mark Gatiss’ Dracula – an enterprise that started well enough but fell away into nonsense like many of the BBC adaptations – reminded me of an enterprise that I initiated some [more…]

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Book Review: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Identity and Race by Douglas Murray

30th December 2019 The Black Swan 0

Published by Bloomsbury Continuum, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2019) ISBN 978-1-4729-5995-9 In the follow up to his book bestselling book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray examines the matter of identity politics. [more…]

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Writing and Publishing a Novel

22nd November 2019 1642again 0

In life you meet many people who say they have a novel that they want to write, but how many ever even start, let alone finish?  A tiny percentage I would guess.  I know someone [more…]

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