Media
Money down the plughole
Or we could call this money down the crapper or even money down the Gary Glitter. With the revelations coming out of USAID via DOGE’s extremely young whizz kids regarding the funding of all sorts [more…]
Revolution
Authoritarianism
19th Century
Enemies Within: Mouchard!
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…]
19th Century
Enemies Within, Part Four
In late February of 1894, a far-fetched tale appeared in the London penny dreadful newspapers. It concerned the untimely death of an anarchist, Martial Bourdin, blown up by his own bomb near the Royal Observatory [more…]
19th Century
Enemies Within: Anarchy!
Only the nieve might think the nighttime streets of 1894 Soho, a den of immigrants and nere-do-goods, were not already alive with talk of the events of the previous chilly February afternoon. Passers-by investigating an [more…]
21st Century
Teargassing a Baddie
September, 2024 The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action. If you were to ask 16-year-old me whether a day would come when I’d [more…]
Authoritarianism
Riot Predicting And All That………..
In regard to the unrest (riots) that have rocked the UK recently. The proximate cause for the riots was the murder spree by the Welsh-born child of Rwandan immigrants, who – at present allegedly – [more…]
Authoritarianism
Riots, Royals & Petitions For Parliamentary Reform
It’s standard practice when a making a complaint that one: articulates the complaint to the appropriate person in writing says what would resolve the complaint i.e. what you want them to do Why should it [more…]
Cooking
A View From (The Shed Just By) The Greenhouse; Murder Most Foul
Hello faithful reader! It’s that time of year again, when the whole community reaches a fever pitch of anticipation at the impending village show. Consequently, I’ve selected the onions, grown outside for the first time, [more…]