October 12th, 1810 (September 30th O.S.). We sail on, occupied by many small repairs necessary after the storm. Damaged blocks have to be replaced, and lashings that have worked loose need remaking. Yet all in [more…]
Question Time 16th May 2019 Panel: Eilidh Douglas (Amnesty International. Pro-Independence. Brexiteer) Christine Jardine (LibDem and ex-BBC) John Swinney (SNP) Richard Leonard (Scottish Labour) Bim Afolami (Tory) Venue: Elgin The first thing that came to [more…]
We had a rendezvous at the reform Club, in London. Lord Bixby had scheduled an appointment there for tonight. I wanted to see who his companions were and if they were showing up. Maybe they [more…]
August 28th, 1810 (August 16th O.S.). Finally we are through the strait between Asia and America. After our long sojourn in a region where the chart shows only pictures of sea monsters, we are again [more…]
Question Time 9th May 2019 Panel: Anna Soubry (Standing-At-the-Back-Looking-Mad-and-Barking-at-the-Moon Party) Amber Rudd (Standing-on-Beachy-Head-Contemplating-Jumping-to-EULand Party) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour Shadow Economics Secretary. Standing-Anywhere-You-Want-Me-To Party) John Mills (Chair of Labour Leave until last year. Donated £1.65 million to [more…]
Investigator Joe Malone, on the trail of missing chief remainer, Lord Bixby, is about to leave Lady Bixby’s home for the Reform Club in London’s Pall Mall. I looked at the diary page for today. [more…]
During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]
June 13th, 1810 (June 1st O.S.). We have left Novaya Zemlya, to general relief, and are sailing down the west side of the island to resume our eastward course. No one enjoyed our sojourn in [more…]
Question Time 2nd May 2019 Panel: Kate Andrews (Associate Director of Institute of Economic Affairs – Leaver) Sonia Sodha (advisor to Ed Millimong, now chief leader writer at the Observer, aka the Sunday Grauniad – [more…]
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