Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Eighteen
Sally was up and looking refreshed, “I saw the TV, he might as well have said it was the Americans, he didn’t hold back. These press conferences usually go one for ages and say very [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th September 2026 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) Joy Morrissey (Conservative) Danny Kruger (Reform UK) Caroline Lucas (Green Party) Venue: Salisbury For once the interesting member of the family, rather than the dullard, [more…]
18th Century
A View From (The Plot By) The Greenhouse; Unintended Consequence?
It’s getting near the end of the original planting of potatoes. The original idea was to do a second planting, in between the rows that had already been lifted, to (hopefully) provide fresh spuds into [more…]
Fiction
Némésis Ch 2
Northern Iraq, November-December 2017 The Kurds were ostensibly Sunni Muslims although they seemed to display a rather more developed attitude towards the practice of their faith. The women generally covered their heads with either a [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-0ne
Monday Good Morning, my happy readers, and a happy Bank Holiday Monday to you. It was dry and sunny when I woke up, but a little breezy when I popped out before my Felix. Mind [more…]
Democracy
Unpacking The Reform Donations Hoax, Part Two
During a career in the Greenpeace press office (explored in yesterday’s article) punctuated by award-winning undercover stings aimed at the likes of Exxon Mobil and the United Arab Emirates’ COP28 conference, Lawrence Carter highlighted ‘corporate [more…]
Fiction
Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Seventeen
A Range Rover was waiting for him, inside were three armed guards, it didn’t take long to reach the police station. The car was parked within the complex, Dave was expected, he produced his MI5 [more…]
Democracy
Unpacking The Reform Donations Hoax
‘For more, we’re joined by Lawrence Carter, founder and director of the Centre for Climate Reporting. He is joining us via audio only from the West Midlands in the U.K. because he’s an undercover journalist [more…]
Fiction
Némésis, Ch 1 – Prologue
In this work of fiction I have used the term The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rather than the more familiar Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The term Daesh (al-Dawlah [more…]