Cressida Dick – Going Postal

The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*

10th February 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]

Class Reappraised

7th June 2018 Godfrey Bloom 0

The last close examination of the English class system was over twenty five years ago, Jilly Cooper͛s frighteningly accurate and wickedly funny book which still works in part. I was musing on the class system [more…]

This Septic Eye, Ch 4

27th March 2018 Going Postal 0

A bloodshot view through a puffy eye streaming with tears, usually of laughter, occasionally of anger. Rather reluctantly, I attended a Mothering Sunday lunch last week. I have nothing against mothers per se, let me [more…]

Battle of the Atlantic, Part Two

30th May 2018 0

As has already been mentioned , the German submarine commander liked to attack the largest convoys with the maximum number of U-Boats he could muster , even if this meant other contacted convoys getting through [more...]
“We’re all socialists now…”

17th July 2016 0

[Sir William Harcourt, often attrib. to King Edward VIIth. ‘Economies of scale’ are often urged upon us as reason – almost reason enough – for amalgamating, enlarging, homogenising organisations. In business, I suppose this unexamined [more...]
An Atomic (Alarm) Clock – Part 4

13th November 2018 0

Above photo: John Harrison’s H1 marine clock, 1735. An early example of a GPS clock, if you like. Note the four brass spheres (one not visible) that replace a traditional pendulum helping the clock to [more...]
English Cameras & their Lenses

10th June 2018 0

If you ask many people, who, they think, were the most innovative, ‘cutting-edge’ in cameras and lenses, the answer would probably be either, ‘The Germans’ or, possibly, ‘The Japanese’; ask them who made the lenses [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Seven

7th July 2018 0

Later that evening she ushered in a dishevelled Sam, heavily laden with what looked a back pack, tent, sleeping bag, webbing. “Thanks Miss.” He looked overawed, out of place in her restrained luxury, not used [more...]