Arts
Postcard from Lille Valete
They say that as soon as you’ve finished writing your story then you’ve reached the point when you have to write it. They are correct. Words, like muscles, need flexed and re-used over and over [more…]
Literature
Gardening
Ooh, Aarr, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening, Part 3
Hello Folks, the pace is hotting up and we’re closing in on the really good part of rough vegetable gardening, apart from the harvesting that is; it’s time to get things in the ground that [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 16th April 2020 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Rachel Clarke (Medical Expert) Lord Bilimoria (Businessman) Venue: Wolverhampton Your humble reviewer has many happy memories of Wolverhampton. Despite having time on his [more…]
Fiction
The Butcher Began To Kill The Ox, Ch 2
CHAPTER 2 Now, here he was, sitting in an anonymous government office, waiting to be grilled by what he had always described as “faceless farts” of civil servants who wouldn’t do his job for all [more…]
Arts
Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls
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…]
Authoritarianism
The Great Confinement
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C.S. Lewis Greetings [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Seven
Then I saw that almost concealed between the two uniformed officers had been Vanessa. Her slight frame easily masked by their bigger bulk. They all reached the car at the same time as a single [more…]
Economics
A Parable for Our Time
One of my fondest books as a child was Doctor at Timberline, by Charles Fox Gardiner. Gardiner was a doctor early in the settlement of western Colorado in the nineteenth century. Each chapter of the [more…]
Fiction
War Crimes Chapter 3 – Edge, Template for a Life
War Crimes Chapter 3 Billy caught up with Mark in the locker area, opposite the ground floor Lavs. Billy was a slightly plump kid so it was no surprise that he was sweating slightly and [more…]