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Why Courage — Not Convenience — Is the Foundation of Free Speech

26th November 2025 Going Postal 0

In an age obsessed with stability, optimisation, and institutional authority, we are losing sight of the simplest truth: freedom of speech is the core condition for national and international security. Not because speech itself is [more…]

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What a disappointment

4th September 2025 well_chuffed 0

In a par for the course move our beloved Prime Minister disappointed just about everyone in the country bar Fatty whose site is still obsessed with SpAds. There we were licking our lips in anticipation [more…]

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Command Economies

21st August 2025 well_chuffed 0

After a once in a lifetime budget that was designed to promote growth, fill a fictitious £22 billion black hole and encourage new jobs, what are we left with, little to no growth, a £50 [more…]

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Control freakery

18th August 2025 well_chuffed 0

When I worked in Kuwait we were joined by three Polish programmers. Two really were programmers, the third was there to keep an eye on the other two. He was expected to work as a [more…]

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A View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse; The Great Betrayal(s)

27th May 2025 Colin Cross 0

My loyal reader may remember an article I published, funnily enough, in May 2022 when I wrote about my encounter with a fellow in Bath and my resultant (and still current) flirtation with herbalism. I [more…]

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Edstone Miligit

22nd April 2025 well_chuffed 0

Edward Samuel Miliband is a Right Honourable not because he is honorable, rather the opposite in fact, neither is he right, he is a big lefty but he carries this title because he is a [more…]

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The Madness of Net Zero

14th November 2024 Going Postal 0

Today Spanner Starmer announced he has decided to increase the amount by which emissions will be cut to 81%.  No details of how of course, He and Miliband are forcing or attempting to force through something [more…]

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Drunk on Power

24th September 2024 well_chuffed 0

Keith has been taking steps, rather large ones, as he attempts to implement the UK equivalent of the former German Democratic Republic in this once green and pleasant land. Much of what follows comes under [more…]

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The Birth of the Angry Young Man

19th September 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1956 the play Look Back in Anger was first staged in Britain. Written by John Osborne, it was the story of Jimmy Porter – who came to symbolise a new force in postwar Britain – the [more…]

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