On the march!
In April 1801, one William Roskilly (34), convicted of burglary in Mawgan, was hanged at Bodmin gaol. The hanging took…
Month: August 2019
Clocks run fast in Westminster!
It is former Prime Minister Harold Wilson who is commonly credited with coining the phrase, “a week is a long…
Wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg // Where there is a will, there is a way.
Above, King George I by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt. It hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (https://www.npg.org.uk/). In relation to…
Sensible and insensibility. (Apologies to Jane Austen)
One of my many failings people say is that I am too much a creature of habit. One of these…
Virtue cycling!
Above (main picture), The Vaalserberg – a hill with a height of 1,058 feet (322.4 metres) above mean sea level…
Brexit: Gone insane!
When the [British] [political] world appears to have gone insane, one is left to ask the question: Is it them…
The past can cast a long shadow.
Above, the now famous photograph of the Duke of York pictured with Miss Virginia Roberts (then 17) in 2001. “It…
Getting the farm back!
The image above is a view of the countryside as one proceeds up Northcote Hill going out of Honiton, Devon.…
In office: But not in power.
NB: This video is embedded from the Guardian’s YouTube website and not directly from the Brussels Brainwashing Commissariat (whose video…
Brexit: Fantasy politics has taken hold!
Brexiteer Jeff Taylor has published a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/E2bBTTxq3xo) commenting upon the proposal put forward by Caroline Lucas for an…