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Still in business, after all these years

25th March 2021 Joe Slater 2536 Comments

I don’t know how fast you can cycle from Land’s End to Berwick. I dare say there will be a few people who have done it in two or three days, or even 24 hours. [more…]

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A New Dark Age

12th November 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3164 Comments

I have been struggling for a reasonable historical analogy to illustrate  where the western democracies are going today. As we have clearly entered a new dark age I do not intend to  hypothesise when exactly [more…]

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England weeps

6th October 2020 Going Postal 4035 Comments

As our glorious leader bumbles his way though this miss-tackled crisis, dropping mistimed bombshells every other week. His cabinet of yes men never cease their blatant brown-nosing compliance, nor their ‘grateful for position’ willingness to [more…]

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Walk on the Wild Side

28th August 2020 SharpieType301 3559 Comments

You know what they say, ‘if you can’t stand the heat, get out of…’ So, on a sticky, sultry summer’s day we decided to do just that and headed out of the bustle of the [more…]

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The political machinations of Hirudo medicinalis

21st August 2020 Rookwood 3317 Comments

For those not fortunate enough to have received a classical education with a strong foundation of Latin, the above title may seem rather peculiar. How, in the name of all that is logical and sensible, [more…]

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Postcard From Borrowdale

29th June 2020 Colin Cross 2027 Comments

It seems an age now since I wrote about the 40 things we were going to do to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. To give you some idea, in 8 weeks we’ll have been married [more…]

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A paralysis of dignity

24th June 2020 Rookwood 3791 Comments

[Credit for this piece goes to Mojo, without whose astute observations I would not have been inspired to write these words.] I don’t know about you, but for a number of years now, there has [more…]

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A bird in a gilded cage

28th April 2020 Godfrey Bloom 5226 Comments

My lockdown is idyllic, I am one of the most fortunate people in England at the moment. We have a smallholding in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close to the river Derwent which is the border between [more…]

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Postcard from Piercebridge

20th January 2020 Going Postal 2543 Comments

A few miles south of Legs Cross Bank, Dere Street crosses the River Tees at a place called Piercebridge, the Roman Morbium.  Although no more than a village it is still regarded as a town [more…]

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