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Postcard From Vilnius

14th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Background For the last 15 years I have been traveling to Central Europe each month on business. Many of my trips are to Lithuania and Poland, so I have decided to send a postcard from [more…]

Postcard From Zakynthos (Outtake)

18th November 2019 Colin Cross 0

As I pointed out in my previous missive from Zakynthos, the weather for the Thursday of our Greek adventure wasn’t going to be anything to write home about (I’ve never let that stop me before) [more…]

Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Six

23rd June 2020 0

The BBC junior lawyer had gone. A production assistant had come to tell us “Precording will begin quite shortly. Someone will call for you. It’s going to be in studio six.” She went away. Ch [more...]
Decisions, decisions

14th November 2019 0

I recently composed an article where I posited that unless there was some kind of rapprochement between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party, there was a considerable risk that this would usher in a new [more...]
War Crimes Chapter 18 – The Long Shot

26th July 2020 0

War Crimes Chapter 18 Just before midnight on a late October evening in 2005, a Puma helicopter took off from Basra Air Station and headed north. The aircraft showed no lights, a contrast to the [more...]
Going Postal with Question Time

6th June 2019 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Thetford. On the panel: Nicky Morgan MP, former education secretary, Conservative; Anneliese Dodds MP, Labour’s shadow treasury minister and a [more...]
The Wisdom of Charlotte: Be Seeing You

20th July 2020 0

I have been a fan of the cult sixties television series, The Prisoner, since it was re-shown in the Eighties. It fascinated me and fired up my intellectual reasoning like no other show I had [more...]