Dodgy Dealings | Going Postal

Cars I Have Loved (And Hated)

22nd December 2020 Going Postal 0

Over the years, like I suspect most of you, I have owned quite a number of cars. Some I have loved, some I have hated, some I have been indifferent about. Ford Escort Mk 1 [more…]

Protecting The NHS, Hepatitis C, Covid-19 and The Rest. A Personal Account

17th November 2020 Colin Cross 0

Sixty nine years ago, give or take a week or so, I was delivered into this world. My mother gave birth to me in what was then known as “the huts”, a collection of prefabricated [more…]

COVID-19 – Exposing the Rot

2nd June 2020 0

When the British voted to leave the EU in 2016, what followed after that showed how rotten much of the political and media establishment truly is. We thought we had seen it all after the [more...]
Crossword No. 159

27th February 2021 0

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary, War Crimes or The Unseen Path. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner [more...]
Postcard From Cumbria; Silloth and Abbeytown

13th February 2020 0

Mention Cumbria to most people and they generally think “Lake District”. This isn’t always the case, mention Cumbria to a paid up member of the Urban “wokerati” and all you’ll get in response is a [more...]
BBC – It’s The Unique Way I’ve Removed Your Funding, Part One

20th July 2016 0

My first memory of a television programme was Andy Pandy. I remember sitting in awe as the marionette, the rag doll and the teddy performed inside our tiny black and white television as I innocently [more...]
Ramblings about robbing the dead

24th November 2017 3,823

Occasionally, I step in something quite unpleasant. The noxious substance of which I speak is an article about Inheritance Tax written by a certain Will Hutton back in 2007. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/07/comment.inheritancetax It is old, I know, [more...]