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What does it mean to be an American?

2nd October 2021 Fred Brownbill 1652 Comments

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails. H. Jackson Brown Jr Today’s blog was written by a good friend of mine, Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL, retired. His [more…]

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Warmongers

21st September 2021 well_chuffed 3487 Comments

Having merely perused the headline on one of Peter Hitchens’ blog offerings, it has inspired me to this article that asks one of the great unanswered questions of our time. How did the left go [more…]

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Biden ridiculed by oldest ally

4th September 2021 Fred Brownbill 1911 Comments

It is terrible to read that the United Kingdom right now holds America in such low esteem that they feel compelled to issue statements affirming that position. How embarrassing for what was once the most [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eight

29th August 2021 Going Postal 1733 Comments

Monday Morning all. The last day of the Test match today so I expect it to rain even if it’s not forecast. Bozzie has got one of his Cobra meetings this morning, this one is [more…]

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Miss Pronter’s Prescient Verses

29th August 2021 Going Postal 2012 Comments

My Dear Friend, Miss. Pronter, has forgiven, but hardly forgotten, my betise in allowing some of her verses to be put forward here, under a mangled version of her name (‘You claim to be a [more…]

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The Land Beyond the Khyber

18th August 2021 Going Postal 4602 Comments

My uncle was, from the end of the war until his death in 1973, Special Correspondent for the Manchester Evening News. I recently came across an article which the paper published in June 1971 in [more…]

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Boldly goings on at the Frontier

31st May 2021 Going Postal 1978 Comments

It is curious how the very phrase “North West Frontier” continues to resonate, even in these post-imperial times. That particular frontier, which ran for 1000 miles in between what is now Pakistan & Afghanistan was [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 17 – The Girl from the RAF

19th July 2020 Blown Periphery 2440 Comments

War Crimes Chapter 17 Afarin became another cog in the machine and made a conscious effort to fit in and not piss them off. Her real skills came to the fore while they were interrogating [more…]

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War Crimes Chapter 16 – The Little Girl from Derby

12th July 2020 Blown Periphery 9542 Comments

War Crimes Chapter 16 Afarin Khan had never been blessed with the type of cleverness required to ingest, sift, collate and then regurgitate information onto an examination paper.  If anything as far as the British [more…]

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