The totalitarian novel is a relatively new genre, the most well known of these being (in no particular order) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, [more…]
Operation Barras – September 2000 Despite the British military presence in the country, Sierra Leone’s civil war rumbled on. The country would remain important to Britain because of its huge resources of diamonds. The West [more…]
Monday Another week, they are simply flying by and at the moment, in lockdown, they seem to be much the same. I know it’s a Bozzie news conference day because Bozzie has got a good [more…]
An old friend of mine, who would eyebrow me, till I’d assured her the dangerous word referred to the length of our acquaintance only, has been for some time working on translations of verses she’s [more…]
The Colonel toured Sleescale’s backstreet digs in his battered Transit van picking up our colleagues as if they were black economy workers to be delivered to building sites, cockle beeches or docks. Most of us [more…]
Saturday morning was much like any morning, the girls were up fairly early, had breakfast, but instead of lectures they had arranged to go together to the University Gym Club for a session in the [more…]
Question Time 18th March 2021 Panel: Victoria Atkins (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Mark Carney (Former Bank of England governor) Ian Hislop (Editor and broadcaster) Venue: London, East Renfrewshire and Ottowa The first [more…]
RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 9 and a COVID DIGRESSION Yes FOXOLES I’m afraid you did miss something – perhaps my account was too oblique. The double in South Africa existed only in the [more…]
I left school in July 1966 and started work as an apprentice in that September. I didn’t earn a lot of money but I did manage to save a little in the Bradford and Bingley [more…]
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