The Sound of Silence…………………….. For those too young to remember Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s iconic song, Wikipedia has an informative web page…
Not Going Out. Again!!! Not Going Out is an unusual sitcom (it has aired on BBC 1 since 2006). Unusual because one of the…
Sixty years ago………… Though alive at the time, I do not remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. The reason: I was seven years old!…
Inconvenient untruths. Former United States Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to persuade people to accept his and others views of “climate change…
A very, very worrying situation……….. The BG does not normally link to the Daily Mirror, but we have done so today. The report below (about…
The lights are going to go out all over Europe! Today’s title is of course paraphrasing Sir Edward Grey’s famous remark to a friend on the ever of the First…
Strange bedfellows: My enemy’s enemy is my friend! Above, a curious trio of three “beauties”! In one of my emails downloaded this morning, Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE, Clinical…
As sick as a parrot! Most BG readers will be familiar with the idiom, “as sick as a parrot”. I am tempted to paraphrase the…
Dangerous times ahead!!!!!! Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) wrote about the unpredictability of war. It has been said that truth is the first causality…