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The RSM

16th April 2025 Going Postal 1768 Comments

As we enter a weekend with Parliament being recalled to discuss something about Steel, it seems time to recall the last time I was near Scunthorpe while in the Army. A slight bit of History [more…]

19th Century

Once Quarried From The Old Testament

29th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 2439 Comments

They say you should never meet your heroes. Is this a recent phenomenon? Certainly, you’d be advised to make an excuse and leave if you think a chief constable is about to enter the room. [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Fifty-Eight

11th September 2022 Going Postal 3255 Comments

Monday Good morning you lot. When I woke up this morning, I had to think hard to work out what day it was. It felt like Sunday with the lack of noise emanating from the [more…]

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Uncle Fred, Edwardian Metropolitan Policeman

30th August 2022 Going Postal 2897 Comments

Uncle Fred’s Early Life ‘Uncle Fred’, as we all called him, was, in reality, my maternal grandfather’s uncle, and my great great uncle.  He was the only other member of my grandfather’s family I ever [more…]

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The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*

16th February 2022 Blown Periphery 1840 Comments

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…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 17

2nd May 2021 Blown Periphery 2578 Comments

Operation Kratos – 22nd July 2005 She was just another face in the hundreds of thousands of the diverse faces in London that morning. She was wearing jeans and a jacket, her Hijab worn loosely, [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Part Seventy Eight

31st January 2021 Going Postal 2623 Comments

Monday Another week begins and it’s another frosty morning, so I only nipped out into the garden very briefly before breakfast. Today I read of the leading contenders for the leadership of the Scottishland Labour [more…]

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Winnie The Pooh Gets Pulled Over By The Plods

12th August 2020 Going Postal 3811 Comments

“Come and sit down,” said Kanga to Piglet, “I can see you’ve had an awful shock – you’re all a-tremble. I’ll make us a cup of tea and you can tell me about it.” “Well,” [more…]

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

22nd November 2018 Katabasis 2646 Comments

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…]

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