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A View From (The Tap Just By) The Greenhouse; Show Edition (Can I Still Say That)?

20th August 2024 Colin Cross 0

The middle of August and, as I type, we have 30mph winds and rain that could penetrate plate armour. I’m putting it down to “Global Warming”, I’m sure it has little or nothing to do [more…]

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Authoritarianism

You question my authoritay?

28th March 2024 Going Postal 0

You know the game is afoot when the Prime Minister makes a sudden, last-minute, Friday evening, urgent announcement. Surprisingly – perhaps – nowt to do with GP & FF, but on 1 March 2024, Sunak [more…]

13th Century

Magna Carta – Did She Die in Vain?

17th August 2023 Going Postal 0

Translation of the full text of the original 1215 edition of Magna Carta from Latin into modern day English. Which clauses were later omitted and which are still valid today? Notes on the English translation [more…]

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Libel or Legitimate Concern?

11th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

In the unique way the internet adds fuel to any fire, an Andrew Neil Twitter thread encouraging people to be vaccinated against coronavirus went from room temperature to the melting point of granite within a [more…]

Arts

Free Speech with Dr Ginsberg

10th March 2020 Viciousbutfair 0

I had a rare opportunity to speak to one of the foremost advocates of free speech recently, Dr Ernst Stavro Ginsberg, this was just some of the insight from this conversation. Q I understand that [more…]

Democracy

Hearts of Oak – Launch

3rd March 2020 Going Postal 0

Hopefully you will have visited the website Hearts of Oak or watched the launch (see below) and you now have some idea of what they are about. For my part, having been at the launch, [more…]

Arts

How Puffins Are Made

13th November 2019 Going Postal 0

This post was inspired by Tiredofeulies, who lamented the fact (and it is a fact) that the younger generation seem so entirely unable to understand any concern the older generation might have for the direction [more…]

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Free Speech

3rd May 2018 Jonathon Davies 0

Photo by Newtown Graffiti on Flickr Fundamental to free speech is the right to criticise. It may seem a small thing but it is vitally important. Try living without it. To be able to say, [more…]

Arts

When Martin Didn’t Meet Tommy – Speakers’ Corner

24th March 2018 Martin Mezger 0

I started this piece last Sunday night, after the event, and was intending to finish it up and send it to Swiss Bob early in the week. But we all know what happened next. On [more…]

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