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What’s Life Like When You Don’t Pay The BBC TV Tax?

3rd July 2019 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

In 2010 I remember watching BBC 1 Live Broadcast on my telly one evening, which was becoming a rarity as I generally wasn’t really enslaved to their scheduled output and spent most of my time [more…]

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Winnie The Pooh and the Brexit Delivery Group

25th April 2019 Going Postal 0

“So,” said Pooh, scanning the assembled animals who had joined his Brexit Delivery Group under the misapprehension that there would be free biscuits and tea, “Following the Downing Street Coup, we have been given the [more…]

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‘Injuries to the neck’ and other euphemisms: Is the BBC Brainwashing Britain?

8th January 2019 Going Postal 0

When I announced to friends my intention to write a book entitled ‘BBC: Brainwashing Britain?’ questions came thick and fast: “Brainwashing Britain? The BBC? Why ever would they want to do such a thing? Aren’t [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Part Ninety One

7th November 2018 1642again 0

What they were asking… but hadn’t he already crossed the line?  That’s why they’d revealed themselves to him, reckoned he was already there.  George was, he knew, would sign up in a flash, possibly some [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Part Ninety

3rd November 2018 1642again 0

WEDNESDAY, THIRD MORNING AFTER EASTER   He’d left the smuggling party behind on the way down to the valley, racing despite his heavy load, dawn was just arriving, a grey cloudy day, typical West Country [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Nine

31st October 2018 1642again 0

The Turk was almost ecstatic, after all the set-backs, the doubts, only nine-eleven put this in the shade, and this was somehow more personal, more intimate, a stab at the heart of a major western [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Eight

27th October 2018 1642again 0

The emergency sub-committee were all back in the main room: the ceasefire at Broadcasting House was over two hours old now and disparate reports were starting to be assimilated, an incomplete but increasingly coherent picture [more…]

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Punch The BBC Into The Digital Age – Cancel Your TV Licence

25th October 2018 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

“If you watch live broadcast, you need a TV licence” Funny, that statement. Firstly, most people assume you need a TV licence if you have a TV.  It’s understandable, from the perpetual onslaught by the [more…]

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The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Seven

24th October 2018 1642again 0

Why had he said that, the flood of relief perhaps at this unexpected, nay miraculous, escape from his impetuous stupidity?  The man’s wife, a barely repressed desire to tell him she was safe? “I’ll report [more…]

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