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Book Review: They Thought They Were Free

6th April 2021 Going Postal 3375 Comments

Sorry, this isn’t a book review……………As such. It is, however, an attempt to highlight the similarities between life in Germany during the early 1930s & life in the UK in 2021. In 1955, Milton Mayer [more…]

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He Who Pays The Piper(rada)

2nd April 2021 Going Postal 1777 Comments

It just wouldn’t do to let Easter weekend pass without an article involving eggs. This dish makes for a useful brunch, lunch or evening supper. Usually we share it with friends, but this year, sadly, [more…]

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Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd

31st March 2021 Going Postal 2189 Comments

John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd should be a universally recognized cinema classic. Sadly, although it received generally positive reviews and did well in England, today it [more…]

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1984 Part Two

29th March 2021 Going Postal 3473 Comments

So, We’re a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a The Totalitarianism Rebrand) and things are still looking ….… well, pretty totalitarian. Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some [more…]

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1984 & All That

22nd March 2021 Going Postal 1929 Comments

The totalitarian novel is a relatively new genre, the most well known of these being (in no particular order) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, [more…]

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Film Review : Breakfast at Tiffany’s

9th March 2021 Going Postal 2111 Comments

Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s — loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name — was a showcase for Audrey Hepburn in her acting prime. (Ironically, Capote championed giving the [more…]

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Dr Feelgood (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Vaxx)

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 2411 Comments

So………….good news, peeps! It appears that the Big Pharma Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid !! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce [more…]

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Champion in a Man’s World

24th February 2021 Going Postal 2313 Comments

Marion Hollins was born in 1892 into a world and at a time when “women knew their place”. This, however, was a notion she soundly rejected throughout her tradition shattering life & career. She arrived [more…]

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Let’s Get Breakfast Done

16th February 2021 Going Postal 1973 Comments

A comfy “Full English” (*), ideal for those rare days at home, when you’ve time on your hands……… Call it what you will, cappuccino of shirred eggs, total breakfast in a cup, the reality is [more…]

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