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Friendship's Timepiece
A WATCH, A TANK AND A FRIENDSHIP Should we be poetic and sentimental over material things? Wordsworth went for the organic, nature, with his daffodils. Can you wax lyrical over a wristwatch? No? If...
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Denying Shakespeare
Treasons, Stratagems and SpoilsThe Bludgeoning of The BardSpeaking at your daughter’s funeral is a terrible task for a father. So in those harrowing days of grief following our Sarah’s untimely death,...
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The House of Vulgar People
The House of Vulgar PeopleThe following is an extract from my memoir All Aboard The Calaboose, of my days in the Merchant Navy 1959-1966. It deals with one of the most frequented seamen’s bars in the...
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BIG BOY'S BLUES
That’s Not All Right, Mama.‘“Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel what old Arthur felt,...
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PARASITIC PENSIONERS?
PENSIONERS: THE NEW PARASITES?What a damned mess the British Labour Party finds itself in. Its old Socialist heart is buried deep beneath a layer of subcutaneous corporate fat, the obese result of the...
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HARD CASE
Hard Case“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”Chuck Palahniuk, Fight ClubThe sun shone through the ornate windows of the Café Delmas and glittered on the cutlery....
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Keep Your Trousers On
Never Forget your UmbrellaSex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.John BarrymoreThe forbidding exterior in 1930 of what was to become Gravesend Sea...
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CAMERON'S DREAM TICKET
DAVID CAMERON’S DREAMWell, comrades, here he is, in all his glory at the poignant and emotional Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival on July 19th - Jeremy Corbyn, the man the Tories fervently hope will win the...
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Yes, this is a rant. But it's a rant about something real, something meaningful. The metrocentric suits of the current Labour Party should be as outraged at what they've allowed to happen, just as this...
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A FORTEAN MYSTERY
Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold...
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SPACE IS ACE!
WE’RE ALL COSMONAUTS, REALLY … I blame this movie for fueling my empty future hopes ...As one gets painfully older, it becomes more difficult to ‘live’ in the present when the past is such a rich place...
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The Dark Ocean
The Dark Ocean Is there anywhere more spookily remote than a lighthouse?‘Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.’Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)Is...
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I'm A Reject!
Rejoice, Rejoice - I’m a Labour Reject!In 21st century UK politics, what’s the very worst political animal you can admit to being? A Conservative? A Liberal? Scottish Nationalist? Let’s go down the...
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Nazi Gold?
Is There Nazi Gold in That Polish tunnel?Polish authorities have blocked off a wooded area near a railway line after scores of treasure hunters swarmed south-west Poland looking for an alleged Nazi...
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Forgotten Hero
Forgotten HeroIt can be strange the way writers of non-fiction sometimes accidentally stumble into a story. Only two years into my full-time writing career in 1999, I was invited, as a script writer,...
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King Arthur's Reserve
KING ARTHUR’S RESERVE?The question of whether or not they've found a hidden Nazi Gold train in the Polish mountains remains unanswered, and the latest news is that digging on the site will not commence...
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Has Corbyn Won the Booby Prize?
Jez we did… but …If you’re an old leftie warhorse like me, then you couldn’t help punching the air this morning when Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour Leadership election hands down on the first round with...
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Skullduggery!
Bones of Contention(and other body parts…)If you’re searching for tangible evidence in the murky fog of conspiracy theories, new world orders and secret societies, facts, figures and names are slippery...
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TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE
www.historypin.org/en/phop/ TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE:A life in Music: What it’s all meant to me.A brief musical memoir as submitted to the BBC’s People’s History of Pop website.THE MAN...
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