Animals
Larry’s Diary Week Fourteen
Monday As usual it’s been a fairly uneventful weekend here on the Downing Street estate. I caught sight of a mouse in the garden yesterday, but it shot into the Foreign Office so I left [more…]
Politics
Conservatives
Postal Voting
Apply-to-vote-by-post-England-Scotland-and-Wales.pdf I have done one of these before but it never hurts to remind the Puffins what a travesty it all is. There can be very few, if any, Puffins who are not aware of [more…]
Philosophy
Freedom Lost?
I left UKIP in spirit over two years ago. Formally I left in January 2018. I had joined in 2015 specifically to help with the fight to save our democracy and our freedoms and to [more…]
Ethics
Crime and Punishment
As a victim of numerous criminal enterprises, two of them to use the modern politically correct vernacular as “Life changing”, I’d like to think I have an intelligent and valid opinion on the justice system. [more…]
Business
Campaign promises, and a dose of reality
As my regular readers know, most of my essays are forays into challenging economic issues. They reflect my own attempts to gain an understanding of their underlying principles. But there’s a lot riding on the [more…]
21st Century
Larry’s Diary Week Thirteen
Monday It was a pretty quiet day yesterday so I was able to laze around a bit. I undertook a few patrols of the estate just to make sure that Mickey and his mates weren’t [more…]
Democracy
The silence of the lambs
Nothing true is popular. One of the most disturbing revelations an individual human can receive is the fact that the majority are not always right. This statement might appear to be self evident, but if [more…]
America
President Donald Trump Rally – Sunrise, Florida
Start time midnight. Featured image: Gage Skidmore – Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
20th Century
Callsign Revlon
On 25th October 1994 29 year old US Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was killed whilst attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean. The case remains highly controversial to [more…]