Arts
Further Childhood Holiday Memories
Dad changed jobs in early 1963 and went to work for, what was at the time, the worlds 3rd largest auction house. They were family business based in a turning off Bond Street. Dad’s new [more…]
Literature
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th November 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Merryn Somerset Webb (Commentator) Rosie Jones (Comedian) Venue: Dover At the end of last week’s Question Time, Fiona Bruce announced [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 2
It may interest some readers who commented on my first article to know that I was very conscious of Coleridge’s poem when choosing my pen-name because a few years after the events described here, whilst [more…]
Democracy
A particularly insidious form of evil
There are moments in life when one remembers exactly where they were when a particular event occurs. The death of JFK, the moon landings, Hillsborough, the death of Diana, 9/11. For all these events I [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes 33 – The Detective’s Story
Chapter 33 – The Detective’s story Detective Inspector Hope’s mobile phone woke him up. It was still dark outside the hotel room’s partially open curtains. He groped for the phone and noticed the time was [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Sixty Six
Monday Good Morning everyone, another week and I could hear it raining when I woke up. Yesterday was awful, every time the grass got dry enough for me to walk on it poured down again. [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Twenty Eight
‘Harry’ Lee Kuan Yew was born in 1923 into a comfortably off Straits family, resident in the Reservoir Road area of Singapore. His father was a Shell Oil company executive, his mother the author or [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th November 2020 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) David Davis (Conservative) Lia Nandy (Labour) Rose McGowan (Cultural Resetter) Hanna Fry (Mathematician and TV Presenter) Simon Wolfson (Businessman) Jan (No idea) Venue: Lewisham At the [more…]
20th Century
Hunter S Thompson: Thou shouldst be living at this hour
Before he shot himself in 2005 after decades of cocaine & booze self abuse, HST produced some of the most remarkable commentary on the modern US political process. With insider access to the players involved, [more…]