Metropolitan Police – Going Postal

The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*

10th February 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]

There Will Be No Water Cannons To Wash Away The Rivers Of Blood

22nd November 2018 Katabasis 0

It’s another week and yes yet another mutual masturbation circle of outrage on social media over complete trivia. I speak this time of the confected “shock” that the water cannons originally purchased by Boris in [more…]

Medicine – Part Five

10th July 2018 0

Something that many people do not realise is that cultures, technology, science and learning can go backwards as well as forwards. Just as you can have progression, you can also have regression. Although the way [more...]
I am a free agent – Giacomo Casanova

29th March 2016 0

Giacomo Casanova by Anton Raphael Mengs “I will begin with this confession; whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely: I am a [more...]
The Pythagorean Equation

4th December 2017 3,418

We consider another quadratic Diophantine equation this time in three variables; namely, the Pythagorean Equation : It is called the Pythagorean Equation although the Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians certainly knew how to generate Pythagorean triples. [more...]
Humdrum and proud!

28th January 2017 0

I can’t really moan about my lot – I have a good middle management job, a teacher wife of 15 years and three kids under 8. I think we have done a reasonable job with [more...]
Inflation; the EU project and the challenge of so called “inequality”

7th June 2016 0

Money, lots of money Is inflation a good thing, or a bad thing? If you are a Middle class Brit, aged in their 30’s with a big mortgage, inflation is a very good thing indeed! [more...]