Friday, 7 March 2014

St Patrick's Day: Forty Shades of Piss-Up!

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St Patrick's Day is nearly with us again.   Sales of Guinness skyrocket; around the world, Plastic-Paddy pubs give out shamrock...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Valentine's Day: Shop In The Name Of Love

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It's here. February sees the first of the year's Megacorp manipulations, as we're induced to show love and affection for our ...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Happy New Year

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In Cornwall, for many 2013 has been gruelling. Job prospects and real wages continue to drop away. Housing stock is ever-reducing, th...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Cornwall In The First World War

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Newlyn's seaplane base, 1918: a Short 184 floatplane under power My new book, 'Cornwall In The First World War', was publis...
Monday, 16 December 2013

Cornwall In The First World War

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Naval motor launch ML350 leaves Newlyn harbour  for an anti-submarine patrol off the Lizard, 1917 My new book, 'Cornwall In The ...
Saturday, 14 December 2013

Mangling Our Sacred Language!

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Goddess: perfect elocution What’s this current linguistic vogue for stuffing extra syllables into perfectly good words? More and more, ...
Friday, 13 December 2013

Cornwall In The First World War

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During much of the First World War, Cornwall had its own defence force: the Volunteer Training Corps. Here’s a relic from those times, a c...
Thursday, 5 December 2013

Christmas Charades

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This Christmas, why not enjoy some traditional festive games of charades: ‘Putting Up With Relatives I Detest’ charade ‘Enduring Old Pe...
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Cornwall In The First World War

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Here's an image from my new book, 'Cornwall In The First World War'. It's July 1916: pictured is airship C.9, which...
Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Old People At Christmas

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"I'm 84, they never come ..." 500,000 elderly folk in Britain will spend Christmas alone, a survey shows. Commissioned by ...