SAS | Going Postal

Postcard From Narvik, Part One

5th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Lying just above the 68th parallel makes the Norwegian port of Narvik more northern than Iceland. The Nordland municipality’s 20,000 inhabitants also live their lives 860 miles north of Oslo, 870 miles from Stockholm in [more…]

The connection between the Commandos, the US Rangers and the SAS

1st October 2020 well_chuffed 0

Apart from the fact that they are all some kind of special forces, the real connection is that they were all given their names by Dudley Clarke who finished the war as a Brigadier. Who [more…]

On the Fringe at The Fringe

12th September 2017 0

After an absence of six years I finally returned for my annual Edinburgh Fringe holiday. In the past I went religiously every year prior to taking on my doctorate and whilst I missed going for [more...]
Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls

15th April 2020 0

Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more...]
Life In A Hungarian Village

21st April 2020 0

Our village is situated in Vas County, the far west of Hungary close to the Austrian border and is surrounded by forest and agricultural land. Although we can see the Alps in the distance this [more...]
The Unseen Path – Part Eight

17th January 2018 0

The call connected and was picked up. “Hello, oh it’s you. I was expecting you a while ago. Yes, I was there. They’re pretty bereft really. Whoever was responsible is unknown to them all, no [more...]
The Swaling, Part Twenty

12th September 2020 0

Myself and my duplicitous American colleague, Tammy, are in Tangiers. Becoming a familiar sight about the port, we are starting to attract the attention of a Tangier set. A semi-anonymous caller, passing as a ‘Mr [more...]