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19th Century

Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more...]
Business

No Need to Control Resources; Access Is Sufficient

For a long time political pundits have wished that the US government was run “more like a business”; thus, believing that a businessman would be preferable to a politician. A businessman’s goal is to make [more...]
Cycling

West Country Rides, Four

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more...]
Economics

Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Two

Following on from detailing some of the ways Landlords will be affected by the bill there has been a great furore centred on “Section 21 is no fault eviction” in fact no one wants to [more...]
Business

How To Deliver a Parcel, Part 2

“Ok, how do you actually deliver 300 parcels at Christmas, Matt? You spouted out a lot of words and made me wait for part 2, but how do you actually do it?” Well, just before [more...]

Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 4

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more...]
No Need to Control Resources; Access Is Sufficient

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West Country Rides, Four

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Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Two

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Following on from detailing some of the ways Landlords will be affected by the bill there has been a great furore centred on “Section 21 is no fault eviction” in fact no one wants to [more...]
Blackfriars

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A (Burts’ Eye) View From The Greenhouse; Feminism Or Infanticide

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes

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Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more...]
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Seventeen

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The Iron Duke’s patience

23rd June 2025 0

Napoleon was very dismissive of Arthur Wellesley referring to him as the sepoy General from his time spent in India. In contrast Wellesley said that Napoleon’s presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men. In [more...]
The History of Pop Music – 1980

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Bill Boaks

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West Country Rides, Four

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It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more...]
An Old Man’s Musings Part Thirty-Three

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A Homage to Pam Ayres & ‘Surgically enhanced’.

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