Why are sensible people doing stupid things? Above: A fellow migrant from the West Riding, Jodie Whittaker. This is a question I have asked before and as…
Happy New Year! Including New Year’s Day 2010, this is the thirteenth time this blog has wished it’s readers a Happy New Year.…
Living in interesting times! As the unstoppable flow of time takes us from one year into another the fingers of North the Elder (https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/climate-change-a-licence-to-lie/)…
Ghislaine Maxwell: Her prospects….. To say that Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell’s prospects look bleak following her conviction of five of the six charges brought…
Stupid is and stupid does! The one quality that Napoleon Bonaparte valued in his generals was that they had to be “lucky”! Looking at the…
From the sublime to the ridiculous! Or is that from the ridiculous to the sublime? For a blog with a domain name and server located within the USA, it behoves the BG to comment upon…
A nation led by idiots! Above, a brace of British Army issue pistols – old (right) and new (left). Today, in the Northern Hemisphere, is…
There’s an awful lot of oil in Brazil! If you should shiver, think only this of us: That there’s some corner of a foreign oil field That is…
Now is the winter of our discontent?????? One of the things I pay attention to when writing a blog-post is the title. It has to be catchy.…
A little help from my friends! Those of us Britons who can recall the summer of 1967 will doubtless recall the Beatles hit, “With A Little…