Book Review
Tales from the Crypt
The recent screening of Mark Gatiss’ Dracula – an enterprise that started well enough but fell away into nonsense like many of the BBC adaptations – reminded me of an enterprise that I initiated some [more…]
Literature
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Forty-Four
Ch 44 – “The Medi-Doctor will see you now.” The Med-Doc looked like a good one. It was a bathroom cabinet sized wall mounted unit with various tubes and pumps coming from it. A fixed [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 3 Part 1
The city of Ar Raqqa – 15th February 2018 Major Paul Halward was a man who felt like he had the troubles of the world on his shoulders that morning. They had been in Al [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th January 2020 Panel: Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Clive Lewis (Labour) Anne McElvoy (The Economist) Miatta Fahnbulleh (New Economics Foundation) Max Hastings (Writer) Venue: Oxford For a short while longer, dear reader, we will [more…]
21st Century
Pandora’s Bug
How long ago it seems! But it is barely four years since I was a senior researcher at Porton Down, sitting on a shiny chair at a varnished desk and tapping the delicate keyboard of [more…]
Fiction
Joe Malone, Part Forty-Three
I let the breath I’d been holding go and pulled the handle right down and towards me and door opened and the alarm bells rang like a fire engine. Ch 43 – Dark, Warm, Soft [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 2 Part 11
10th – 14th February 2018 – British High Commission Islamabad and MoD Main Building, London Cécile and Phillips were kept under what could only be described as open arrest within the bounds of the High [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Identity and Race by Douglas Murray
Published by Bloomsbury Continuum, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2019) ISBN 978-1-4729-5995-9 In the follow up to his book bestselling book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, Douglas Murray examines the matter of identity politics. [more…]
Fiction
The Rendezvous
It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]