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My friend Cogito Ergosum writes "Thankfully, we are now on the short strokes of the intellectual raping that goes with the lead into a...

A few miles away from me there is a rest area adjoining a roundabout off the main A1 road. It is nicely secluded, screened by trees and wi...

  This is a letter appearing in today's Telegraph. The writer talks of his time with a major Corps serving in Germany in 1968 but it i...

Welcome to MY world: That other shoe : "Waiting for the other shoe to drop" was a phrase I heard often when working with Americans...

"Waiting for the other shoe to drop" was a phrase I heard often when working with Americans; I thought they had created it but it ...

I have been following the hoo ha about the Snowdon revelations. Yesterday's performance by the three Big Brothers of our intelligence ag...

Drones. No, not idle bees but those buzzy things that America uses to despatch those skulking beyond the reach of ground forces in lands whe...

I was a keen young theater- goer at the time when Lionel Bart was filling London show-houses with his hits. I saw Fings two or three times ...

Why, I do not know but I am tempted to write a blog page today after such a long break from production. Maybe it is auto-suggestion that ...

I watched the rugby this morning. The 5:30 am start was needed to erase the memory of our 'team' yesterday. I say 'team' bu...

I have been reading about the fall of Singapore. When I lived in Malaya I had heard much from old Colonial types about the Japanese occupat...

I have been wandering out in the outer space of the Internet looking for interesting stuff that has been overlooked. No No - not that. I use...

I have been following the Dykes Farm story. Sad life I know but some 12 years ago we had a smaller version just the other side of my fence w...

Last week's Sunday Telegraph made much of a story that our troops were being encouraged to report improper conduct by our soldiers whil...

Possibly wrong that I, who have no belief in that sort of thing, should steal from The Book for a title. However, I have always hedged my be...