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Book review: Proto: how one ancient language went global, by Laura Spinney

6th July 2026 Going Postal 0

Who are we, and where did we come from? Might our ancestral languages hold the key? More years ago than I care to remember, as a teenager I came upon an old book published in [more…]

20th Century

Book review: Fearless on Everest, by Julie Summers

9th March 2026 Going Postal 0

‘Sandy Irvine sat outside his tent, shoulders hunched, his hat pulled down over his ears, his scarf shielding his badly sunburned face. His skin had been severely blistered by the sun, and the wind on [more…]

16th Century

Tracy Borman: Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I

8th December 2025 Going Postal 0

It is always a bonus when a book takes one or more well-known figures and makes you see them in an entirely new light. Tracy Borman has achieved just this with her dual biography of [more…]

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Immigration, unemployment and publicity

3rd December 2025 Going Postal 0

When all else has failed, our great leaders and civil servants usually  revert to telling us we need immigrants to ‘do the jobs the British won’t do’ (even when those jobs were only advertised abroad, [more…]

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Anger Is An Energy, by John Lydon

4th November 2025 Going Postal 0

‘They put a hot wire to my head Cos of the things I did and said They made these feelings go away Model citizen in every way’ (From Anger Is An Energy, the song) Given [more…]

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How Not To Be A Political Wife, by Sarah Vine

20th October 2025 Going Postal 0

Here it is, hot off the press – a peek straight into the heart of Cameroonian Britain, through the eyes of a true insider. Sarah Vine was married to Michael Gove throughout the whole débacle, [more…]

19th Century

Who were the Whigs?

7th October 2025 Going Postal 0

We are all familiar with the saying that ‘Britain basically has a two-party system’, an aphorism which until recently seemed to be so obvious as to hardly need saying. Incredibly, it now seems we may [more…]

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Book Review: I Survived, by Victoria Cilliers

3rd September 2025 Going Postal 0

The recent tragic suicide by parachute jump of  experienced skydiver Jade Damarell, widely reported in the media, brought to mind the Cilliers case of a few years ago, which Victoria Cilliers goes into in this [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: On top of the world – Mallory and Irvine

19th August 2025 Going Postal 0

With the somewhat macabre discovery of Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine’s foot, still in its boot, on Everest last October – Mallory’s body having been found some years before – my interest was awakened in the vast [more…]

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