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Ethics

19th Century

Enemies Within: Mouchard!

7th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]

Authoritarianism

Public Perception of Kenya’s Judicial Independence

27th November 2024 Going Postal 0

In recent years, the Kenyan judiciary has faced intensified scrutiny and criticism from political figures, reflecting a broader public distrust of the judiciary. As a political scientist examining the evolving dynamics between Kenya’s judiciary and [more…]

Christianity

A Natural End to The Human Experience?

26th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

On the other week’s BBC Question Time from Rotherham, when the subject turned to ‘assisted dying’, a gentleman in the audience commented politics and religion do not mix and religion should be kept out of [more…]

Culture

OTF Party: What Makes/Made Us Quintessentially English/British?

15th May 2024 Going Postal 0

“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian takeaway to sit on a Swedish sofa in front of a [more…]

Ethics

Are all civilisations doomed to fail?

28th January 2024 Grimy Miner 0

  Throughout history we have seen great civilisations rise, decline and fall. History has this annoying habit of repeating itself, none more so than in the case of human endeavour. As someone famous once said [more…]

Arts

A View From The Greenhouse; Please Make It Stop!

11th April 2023 Colin Cross 0

Finally got the layout finished with the completion of the four (slightly) raised beds. In the final analysis (for this season at least) I decided not to permanently fix them down with corner pegs as [more…]

20th Century

The Prostitute’s Padre

8th March 2023 Going Postal 0

On 30 July 1937 a man entered a cage at a Skegness amusement park. In the cage were two lions, one male, one female; Freddie and Toto. According to their owner, both animals were “docile” [more…]

Diary

View From The Greenhouse; No Gender Change Please, We’re British

11th January 2022 Colin Cross 0

Another year comes around and, with it, a couple of days for quiet reflection, mostly to let the pudding settle. I don’t normally make a start in the old greenhouse much before February, the weather [more…]

Ethics

Kafka traps and Gish galloping

20th October 2021 Going Postal 0

These are the ways many of  the people you see in the media and politics lie and try to deceive you, not all but an awful lot of them come from the left unsurprisingly. First [more…]

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