Friday, May 01, 2026

FRIDAY MUSIC: Skiffle, by JD

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Skiffle is a DIY, high-energy music genre blending folk, blues, and jazz, originating in 1920s America but surging in 1950s Britain. Popular...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Not The PMQs - 29th April 2026

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He’s awful but you can’t get rid of him. Yesterday’s PMQs, which took place after some attempt to prorogue Parliament in time to cancel them...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Mind Your Language! by JD

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This post began life as a rumination on languages in general but my mind works in mysterious ways and it drifted off into wondering why and ...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

FRIDAY MUSIC: Clannad, by JD

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Clannad were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings Ciarán, Pól and Máire Uí Bhraonáin and their twin uncles ...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The State of Us, by Wiggia

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To start, a classic example of one of the reasons the West is in terminal decline; when government appointees can waste time on utter crap l...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Starmer, national sovereignty and the Ministerial Code

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Since the Mandelson/Starmer matter questions are being asked about whether the Ministerial Code has been breached. This prompted me to look ...
Monday, April 20, 2026

How Poland saved us from Communism

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The video below tells us something I hadn’t known and should have. In the summer of 1920 Lenin sent 200,000 soldiers into Poland with the ob...