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The Falklands War – 40 years on

2nd April 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2096 Comments

It’s difficult for me to believe the Falklands War took place over forty years ago In April 1981 I was a 30 year old captain in Specialist Forces reserve, at the training school in Grantham [more…]

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Happy Margaret Thatcher Day!

10th January 2025 Going Postal 3426 Comments

My dear old boy – Delighted to say we are back at last. Safe and sound in dear old Blighty after a perfectly hideous 16000 mile round trip to the arse end of the world [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Four

14th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 1651 Comments

Earlier this year, as my wife and I passed Birmingham’s Town Hall during our day trip from the North, we hummed Mendelssohn’s Elijah which debuted in the city’s triennial music festival of 1846. At that [more…]

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Forty Years On

3rd June 2024 Going Postal 3219 Comments

Forty Years On is the name of a play by Alan Bennett based on the title to the Harrow School Song. This year is forty years since the start of the Great Miners’ Strike and [more…]

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The Milk Snatcher

18th July 2022 well_chuffed 3220 Comments

Many puffins seem to be big fans of Margaret Thatcher. I have to agree that she was the best Prime Minister since WW2 and was very patriotic. So good was she that all subsequent ones [more…]

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Inflation

12th October 2021 well_chuffed 3572 Comments

From what this mendacious bunch of miscreants masquerading as a Government have been saying recently it seems that Government spending is out of control They are going to increase taxes massively to pay for the [more…]

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“Conservative” government?……if only!

16th August 2021 Emile Woolf 2722 Comments

The Conservative government has strayed so far from the principles on which it was elected that it is scarcely recognisable as the party most people voted for. Its colour on the political spectrum has undergone [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Five

15th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 2553 Comments

Myself and my colleague Natasha Williams are at our department’s private election night party at a packed and noisy Dolphin Square bistro. In the early hours of the tenth of June nineteen eighty-three, a colour [more…]

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Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel

21st November 2019 Going Postal 3148 Comments

The recent ‘Hong Kong Protests’ piece attracted several comments and questions, but notably ‘Why now?’ and ‘What started this?’ So here is ‘Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel’. A long time ago, during the premiership [more…]

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