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Book Review

Brexit Unmasked: The memoirs and opinions of a nonagenarian

11th April 2023 Going Postal 0

A few weeks ago, Swiss Bob was asked to review a book advocating re-joining the EU: Brexit Unmasked by Albert Kemp (Brown Dog Books, 2023). I don’t know if this unusual request was in recognition [more…]

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Postcard from Cork

26th September 2022 Going Postal 0

Warning: do not expect to find anything in this postcard about Irish craic, trad’ music, green pastures, comely colleens, or comparisons between Murphy, Beamish and Guinness stouts. There won’t be much either about “the 850 [more…]

Politics

Доверя́й, но проверя́й – Trust, but Verify

19th April 2022 Going Postal 0

“Trust, but verify, is a well-known saying loved by Ronald Reagan, who was taught it by the writer Suzanne Massey. However, not many people are aware that it came into the English language directly from [more…]

Elections

Z is for … Zeitgeist, Generation Z and Le Z, the presumed candidate

19th October 2021 Going Postal 0

The man who alerted me to the collapse of Western civilisation might soon be President of France. He did so at an event I attended on 4 November 2014: Eric Zemmour was in London to [more…]

Arts

In Praise of The Uptick, Part Two

6th October 2021 Going Postal 0

A sizeable number of GPers recently attended SB’s 60th birthday bash and they came and went over three days, some attending the whole bash, some just an afternoon or evening. This convergence of puffins in [more…]

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Blotto or Blotter?

24th November 2020 Going Postal 0

Since the Spring of 2020, we’ve all had to forego certain things that were dearer to us than others. I particularly miss live debates and political rallies. The last event I attended was the Brexit [more…]

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Putting Pen to Paper

1st November 2019 Going Postal 0

Today 1st November is not, as we once hoped, Independence Day but it is International Fountain Pen Day. It is the ideal day to confess that, occasionally setting the keyboard aside, I indulge in watching [more…]

Elections

The Brexit Party Big Vision Rally

10th July 2019 Going Postal 0

This has been a Brexit junkie’s summer. And like the heat hope has been rising. 1st of June was the big Action Day + Rally in Peterborough to help Mike Greene get elected as an [more…]

Elections

The Brexit Party and the Peterborough By-Election

4th June 2019 Going Postal 0

Seven weeks and one day after the launch of the Brexit Party (BXP), 600+ activists registered to campaign in Peterborough (PBO) on Saturday 1 June 2019 and descended on the city, as well as many [more…]

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