America
Army vs Navy
Bear with me Puffins. Murcan fitba. Have patience, your sanity will be preserved. Most of us have probably heard of the NFL and their Superbowl. Well you can forget that. There is another league of [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Sixty-Two
Monday Good morning all, it was bright and sunny early on, but the sun has gone now and it’s grey. Today we have the new numbers out for Channel migrants, 20,210 since the Government came [more…]
Biography
Book Review, ‘Unleashed’ by Boris Johnson
The second-ever greatest Johnson of words, Samuel, the 18th-century lexicographer, informs us, “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”. Three centuries later, no matter what we think of life we’re [more…]
Fiction
A Price Too High, Chapter One
It was a cold early January afternoon, Dave Stretton was driving his Uber cab back to Loughborough, he had dropped off in Nottingham city centre. It was misty and looking at the temperature on the [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Festive Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 6
Seasonal greetings, dear Puffins, and please be welcome to part six in our short series of articles, guaranteed to contain no weirdos, nothing obscure, nothing remotely challenging and no tunes not thoroughly well known to [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th December 2024 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugenhat (Conservative) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Christine Jardine (LibDem) Emma Dabiri (Writer) Piers Morgan (Broadcaster) Venue: Beckenham Once upon a time, there was a little [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Five
Jinnie drove her Lexus up to the gate of the Warminster Specialist Weapons School and showed her and her sister’s orders to the armed guards manning the barrier. The lance corporal read the papers and [more…]
Democracy
The last dance for democracy?
Let’s examine the raw, pulsating heart of today’s governance crises in the West. Populist movements, those so-called ‘disruptors’ of the status quo, aren’t just random eruptions of public discontent; they are the inevitable backlash against [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Three
In Part 2, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Fraü H. Bronnold about not having had any leave, having his hair cut (“eine fläzte”) and drinking salty coffee. His next [more…]