The value of ephemera in historical research and some modern broadcast ephemera.
The study of history is not an exact science. We know about the big things like the depravities of Kings such as Henry VIII,…
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History time – A reminder that the British government has always disliked people having uncontrolled speech.
The current attempts by the British government to restrict what people say online via the Digital Harms Bill are I’m afraid nothing new. I…
Book review – Sedition by Vladimir A Kozlov and others
‘Sedition – Everyday resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev’ – Authored by Vladimir A Kozlov, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Sergei V Mironenko, O.V…
The Prime Minister is correct – pro-EU politicians risk damaging faith in politics
Although I have voted Conservative in some electoral contests, I’m not great fan of the British Prime Minister Theresa May. I’m especially unhappy over…
Another ‘no s**t Sherlock’ story from Germany
I along with many others, warned what might happen if governments allowed into European nations large numbers of people from cultures that are soaked…
Socialism always leads to the killing fields
Being a former man of the Left, I have mixed with a lot of socialists over the years including those who could be described…
Not politics now but a bit of old style radio anarchism – A brief look at The Laughing Policeman Wireless Society
As some may know or may have guessed from certain previous articles on the subject of dodgy Islamic community radio stations, that I have…
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
Today is ‘Battle of Britain Day’. It’s a day to celebrate the astonishing achievement of all those who young men who fought in the…
Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 – How decadent and depraved were the early Roman emperors?
If you’ve been brought up with the impressive BBC adaptation of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ then you will have been left with the distinct…
Blogging from the Hay Literary Festival 2016. AC Grayling – The Age of Genius.
Occasionally I’m lucky enough to be able to get to the Hay Festival and hear various authors, politicos and thinkers put their point of view…
