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Book Review: This Sovereign Isle

16th February 2021 Going Postal 0

‘This Sovereign Isle’, or ‘Britain in and out of Europe’ by Robert Tombs was published by Allen Lane on 28th January 2021. I got my copy from Blackwells at a slight discount to the £16.99 RRP [more…]

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Book Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

10th February 2021 Going Postal 0

I’m not someone who regularly reads books – I tend to buy several at a time with a view to reading them whilst on holiday (remember those?) or over the Christmas period, which is exactly [more…]

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Book review: Georgiana, by Amanda Foreman

3rd December 2020 Going Postal 0

Amanda Foreman is the British/American daughter of American film-maker Carl Foreman (Bridge on the River Kwai, High Noon). Carl Foreman moved to England from Hollywood during the McCarthy era; he had been blacklisted and his [more…]

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Book Review: The Fake News Factory by David Sedgwick

8th May 2020 John Booth 0

I read David Sedgwick’s first book about the BBC, ‘BBC: Brainwashing Britain?’ (the Kindle version) when it came out in December 2018 and was immediately nodding and mouthing ‘yes, yes, yes’ at virtually every page. [more…]

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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 0

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls

15th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more…]

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Economics

A Parable for Our Time

14th April 2020 Patrick Barron 0

One of my fondest books as a child was Doctor at Timberline, by Charles Fox Gardiner. Gardiner was a doctor early in the settlement of western Colorado in the nineteenth century. Each chapter of the [more…]

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Some Things to do in Lockdown

19th March 2020 Jonathon Davies 0

Well frens, it’s been a little while since I’ve written. Dad passing away, sorting his affairs, loss of old job, moving to new job, very busy. One thing to come out of it all is [more…]

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Literature

Tales from the Book Crypt

30th January 2020 Going Postal 0

As a regular visitor to and buyer at auctions across the South of England I have become used to viewing lots and waiting for hours for the items I am interested in to come under [more…]

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