20th Century
De Profundis or How Green Was My Valley?
I qualified as a public health inspector (PHI) in Hull in 1968 and after a couple of years with a rural district council in South Norfolk, at the tender age of 22 I found myself [more…]
Science
Arts
The Disastrous Failure of Post War Media
In a parliamentary democracy offering only two political parties the press have played a significant role in questioning government policy & more importantly holding that policy outcome to account. Not always admittedly for the common [more…]
Engineering
Cnuteneering, Part Ten
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]
Computing
Learn to Code
With UBI now very much having entered public consciousness and provoking equal measures of alarm and disdain on the mainstream political right I cannot help but wonder to myself what the right propose as an [more…]
Authoritarianism
A Moral Dilemma
On Sunday last week (27th February), Peter Hitchens informed his readers that he had taken the Covid jab, which sparked fury amongst some and disbelief among others. Hitchens stated that ‘I did not do it [more…]
Authoritarianism
Dr Feelgood (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Vaxx)
So………….good news, peeps! It appears that the Big Pharma Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid !! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce [more…]
19th Century
John Scott Russell
Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]
Fiction
The Tortures of the Quarantined
Simon Marmeladov was in Greece learning Greek. Because Santorini tends to be rather hot in June, the lessons started at seven in the morning and finished at eleven. This arrangement suited Simon who had become [more…]
Democracy
Racism – The Root of All Evil
There was a time when the love of money was the root of all evil. Then socialists in schools tweaked that lesson ever so subtly and suddenly, unnoticed, money was the root of all evil. [more…]