Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty
Monday Good morning, my friends. No sun this morning and not terribly warm, but the man on the radio says it is going to get quite warm midweek. It has been quite mad in No. [more…]
The Guardian
Arts
A snapshot of the Grauniad
A quick(ish) perusal of the Grauniad headlines on the 22nd November. It is eclectic. No 10 says it would arrest Netanyahu, Poland says there is a real risk of escalating war turning Global Gatwick Airport [more…]
20th Century
The Woman Reporter, Part One
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) No Half-Way For Ladies When I got my first job on a newspaper twenty-five years ago [more…]
Arts
Ramblings about robbing the dead
Occasionally, I step in something quite unpleasant. The noxious substance of which I speak is an article about Inheritance Tax written by a certain Will Hutton back in 2007. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/07/comment.inheritancetax It is old, I know, [more…]