Book reviews

▼

Film reviews

▼

Random images

▼
Friday, 13 November 2015

Events, dear boy, events. But are some worse than others? Or are they all equally bad?

›
I can’t remember what ‘dangers’ the world faced when I was ten because I didn’t follow the news then. The first big issue I remember being a...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Not yet scared shitless? You will be if Mr Edward Lucas has anything to do with it

›
It has long been my contention that one tactic newspapers adopt to try to keep up circulation is to scare their readers shitless. It is a co...
Friday, 30 October 2015

I say goodbye to an old friend, one with whom I have seen good times and bad. But I do have a new cap. Well!

›
Well, there’s a pretty state! It has been several week now since I put digits to keyboard and blathered on here, but it’s not as though my l...
Friday, 16 October 2015

Depression - what it is not

›
I thought I would, for a change, give one of my blog posts a succinct and straightforward title, and one which entirely sums up part of what...
Saturday, 3 October 2015

Labour turns left as it elects as leader The Devil Incarnate/A True Socialist (delete as applicable)

›
A quick look at the viewing figures for this blog shows that, for example in the past four weeks, less than one in five lives in Old Bligh...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

Has the rot finally set in for the EU? Who knows, but it ain’t looking great, but why is Ukip so quiet these days? And I come clean though details, I trust, are admirably vague

›
Here in Britain our ‘swivel-eyed, looney, United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) has gone rather quiet of late. Granted no general electio...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

In which I introduce you to an unexpected – quite possibly unsuspected – facet of my character: discretion

›
Discretion, as all my friends will tell you if you were to ask them, is my middle name, so several details in this entry will be vague to th...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

You want silliness in this silly season? How about the silliness of denying the fruits of life to several more merely because we would have to put up with just a little less?

›
They call it the silly season, the month when ‘nothing happens’ and our newspapers are required to resort to printing all kinds of nonsensic...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

A week on the German/Dutch border in the back of beyond in Ostfriesland. And I confess to a very, very silly cock-up

›
It’s that itch write again and sooner or later one of us is going to succumb. Quite how I can imagine. Either I give in and write, write, wr...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

That itch to write (Part 2): Again about dogs, but also diaries, emotional defecation, the ‘information superhighway’ (what’s that in Chinese?) and why I think dogs should be allowed to roam

›
When I started this blog five years and seven months ago it was to be some kind of hybrid between a diary, a commonplace book and what I can...