Arts
Postcard From Edinburgh
Gentleman and lady travellers of a certain age may be divided into two tribes: Princess or Market. I’ve always been a Princess man. Let me explain. Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley always drew me up the [more…]
Literature
Zainichi, Part One
Imagine an England where race matters. Where natives come first in hiring and housing. Where foreigners are barred from certain locales, by signs in the windows. Where people openly judge you by your skin colour [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1955
Featured song: Bill Haley & His Comets with “Rock Around the Clock”. This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 23rd May 2024 The Panel: Mark Spencer (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Ash Sarkar (Broadcaster) Daisy Cooper (LiberalDemocrat) Tim Montgomerie (Broadcaster) Venue: Coventry The other morning, embarrassingly north of 7:30 am, [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Thirty-One
For the second day running, Jinnie woke with a feeling of trepidation. Yesterday, although sad, had gone wonderfully and even the weather had played its part. After the King and Queen had left, she had [more…]
21st Century
A Former Ukrainian MP Blew the Whistle on Burisma’s Connections to Terrorism
The dirt that Andrey Derkach shared about Hunter’s Burisma corruption scandal made him an enemy of the American and Ukrainian governments. Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mysteries, Part Two
In Part 1, I described how, from the signatures on the front cover of a June 1939 edition of “Blackwood’s Magazine” purchased from an antiques fair, I found that the original owner, Edward Davis Moore, [more…]
21st Century
Is Ukraine Starting to Back Terrorism Around the World?
By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, suffered an assassination attempt on May 15th. The politician was [more…]
Hobbies
A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part One
In hindsight, it was a major life change. Hard to believe that it is now almost 30 years ago – the summer of 1994. Leaving a management job with a FTSE 100 British company – [more…]