Page 620 – Going Postal

A (Libyan) Bridge Too Far

7th September 2017 Going Postal 0

This is under a Nom de Plume or rather a Nom de Pixel, but many of you will know me by my usual commenting persona. The reason being, well why not? And you never know. [more…]

“Everyone is a Nazi!” The Balkanisation of Politics

5th September 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

The Poison of Identity Politics Identity politics is the in thing. This is the idea that who you are determines where you are on the political spectrum. How you think and feel about things should [more…]

Porcelain

5th September 2017 Going Postal 0

Porcelain, in many ways, is an ideal material for making sculpture, strong, light and is both amenable to colour and beautiful just as it is. It will not, however, resist thermal or mechanical shock. Treated [more…]

The Internet is Simple, Part Three

30th August 2017 El Cnutador 0

“File:PGP message.svg” by Cqdx is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 You will probably want to read Part One and Part Two of this series before continuing… We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here [more…]

John Enoch Powell, MBE

24th August 2017 Jwp 0

If time could be conflated and the men of yesteryear come face to face with those of today…. I have sometimes wondered what JEP would say if he was here to speak to our present [more…]

The Weaponisation of History

23rd August 2017 Jonathon Davies 0

I was lucky enough to have a couple of excellent teachers and lecturers for History during school and University. They emphasised two important points on why History was so important. First, that history is written [more…]

The Internet is Simple, Part Two

23rd August 2017 El Cnutador 0

“File:Route Aggrgation example (1)-en.svg” by Michel Bakni is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One of this series before continuing… Routers keep this mapping in a list for future [more…]

An Old-fashioned Nurse

21st August 2017 Going Postal 0

On the same day that a national newspaper carried the notice of my wife’s death, the front page had a headline to the effect that ‘Midwife Mistakes’ were responsible for many infant deaths and disabilities; [more…]

My Dad by Gmbd

19th August 2017 Gmbd 0

We lived together for 16 years yet I hardly know anything about him. He was built like the proverbial brick shit house and all muscle. He never ever laid a finger on me and I [more…]