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ATTENTION! ROBBERY IN PROGRESS!
THE FINAL FIGHT FOR OUR NHS Partly due to all the adverse publicity MPs and politicians have received in recent years, among the public, political apathy has increased. There’s that old saying, ‘no...
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A NATION STAINED FOREVER
Stained Nation the curse of graffiti: A BEAUTIFUL BODY, PERMANENTLY RUINED.I am very nervous writing this. The reason? I am commenting upon a new religion. Many of you are no doubt disciples. This...
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BORING OLD FARTS
IN THE PRIME OF SENILITY Our lovely late daughter, Sarah, used to say frequently that she had no desire to reach old age. Perhaps this was the inevitable influence of her working life; for 30 years she...
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DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!
Up Periscope!Go here: http://www.constablerobinson.comWell, it’s taken a long time but finally the re-issue of Honoured By Strangers, my biography of legendary submariner Captain Francis Newton Allen...
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Russell Brand - Muddled Messiah?
LET’S HEAR IT - THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING!You'll look fine on a poster, Russell, but what's your SOLUTION?I’m a peasant. I live in a nice house, I have a state pension and a car, two TV sets, and I...
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A Shaky Memoir
Unreliable MemoirsSometimes, and that means much of my time these days, a writer writes simply to get the words out of his heart and soul and onto the page lest they die when he does. I suppose a lot...
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GRIEF
Grief: Take it or Leave it.Every generationBlames the one beforeAnd all of their frustrationsCome beating on your doorAs the poet Longfellow remarked, ‘there is no grief like the grief that does not...
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Christmas Day
CHRISTMAS DAYWas it ever like this?Reduced to a parched oasisIn Capital’s cultural desertTomorrow a promise of true mayhemSome shops will open at 5 amAn allowance for the needTo satisfy rapacious...
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Vote Kipper?
Can you smell Kippers?Who said this?: “Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.” In the light of the Rochester and...
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What 'Big Society'?
2015: Still ‘In it Together’?In May, we face the most contentious General Election in modern times. There’s an old adage, “No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in”. This inspires...
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A MYSTERY SOLVED!
EVEN OLD SAILORS GET EGG ON THEIR FACES.The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena by Roy Bainton is publishedby Constable & Robinson (UK)and in the USA by Running Press Inc.For almost 20 years I’ve...
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Empire of Thieves
DID HIMMLER LIVE?First time I've really made the effort to put a book out on Amazon.com, but here's the result. Anyone with an interest in WW2 and the fate of missing artworks could (I hope) find this...
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56 Years Ago Today
REMEMBERING THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED. Buddy Holly was our hero in 1959. We’d learned one style of guitar playing, simple end effective, from Lonnie Donegan. But when Buddy came along, he took that...
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THE HAUNTED U-BOAT
THE HAUNTED UB-65: MARITIME GHOST STORY OR WARTIME PROPAGANDA?In the annals of maritime mysteries, some yarns remain far more potent than others. Forget the Mary Celeste. Drifting vessel+ no crew= a...
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The Rich Rule: Official.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/biggest-banking-leak-history-details-nefarious-tactics-global-tax-dodgers/201979/HEDGING THEIR BETS.Back when Henry Ford was building his automobile empire, he said “It is...
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