Secret Surveyor

  I read a book a long, long time ago about a chap that joined a flying saucer cult in 1950s America. This cult – let’s call it “the flying ...

Happy Ne…sorry, no time for that now. I’m sorry, I can’t hold it in any longer. Why did she do it? I just can’t come to terms with the fact ...

From 1958 to 1964, Chinese leader Mao Zedong aimed to rapidly transform China through high-speed societal change, establishing large publicl...

 I was listening to a Cabinet minister talk on Radio 4 recently, idly deciding who I was going to vote for, and quite a stark thought hit me...

What’s going to happen to house prices over the next two years? Most people think they'll collapse. They might - but I don't think t...

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom. The German Guns, by Private Baldrick The above poem was,...

  The title of the blog post comes from a French phrase I am fond of - it means: “ there is a testicle in the soup ”. This is I think a fair...