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Marking Homework – DJT 1 Year & counting

21st January 2026 Going Postal 0

I’ll start by  stating that all in all, I think The Donald is doing a more than average job during his second foray into the Presidency. Lets put aside for the time being recent événement with Venuzuela [more…]

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Night Manager

17th January 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

An alignment of Le Carrés occurred over Christmas. A new series of The Night Manager dropped on BBC 1 and iPlayer alongside a repeat of the Corporation’s 1979 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, also [more…]

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Book Review: Minifigure Monarchs: A History of Great Brits in little bricks

5th January 2026 Going Postal 0

Written by Andrew Redfern, and launched as a Kickstarter project in July 2025, Minifigure Monarchs was successfully funded within 24 hours. At 336 pages this hardback was a definite addition to my Christmas list!  It’s [more…]

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Book Review: My Life With Rock N’ Roll People by Mike Nicholls

15th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Swiss Bob kindly sent me a copy of this book to review – so here you go. I had expected the book to be a series of articles that Nicholls had previously published in the [more…]

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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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Alanbrooke’s War Diaries edited by Arthur Bryant

12th November 2025 Going Postal 0

I never really had a deep interest in WWII, my knowledge was sketchy and based on WWII films.  Of course, I had imbibed that Hitler was the devil incarnate and Churchill was a national hero.  [more…]

Book Review

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…]

Book Review

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…]

16th Century

Stories from the Age of Sail

22nd September 2025 Going Postal 0

I was going to call this article ‘Wooden Ships and Iron Men’ but then I discovered that Avalon Hill beat me to it about fifty years ago, so ‘Stories from the Age of Sail’ will [more…]

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