by bmac | Jul 31, 2024 | News
Back in the days of youth and irresponsibility (the early 70s for me) a group of us would meet up most Fridays and Saturdays for a drink (not many, we couldn’t afford them. An increasingly warm lager and lime for me) and a chat. One of this group was a lady called...
by bmac | Jun 18, 2024 | News
Well, we all had a good laugh, didn’t we? Farage’s ‘Our contract with you’ – a hoot, a joke, figures plucked from the air, nothing adding up, £50 billion plus £50 billion makes £150 billion, enormous tax cuts, huge spending cuts, smaller government but bigger prisons,...
by bmac | Apr 14, 2024 | News
Since discovering my family’s involvement in the Great War, I have researched and written about war for something like twenty years now. Sometimes I write about a regiment moving there, or a soldier dying there, a trench lost, a battle won. I always endeavour to...
by bmac | Apr 1, 2024 | Books being read
The continued robust, and with some faiths, aggressive existence of organised religion has been one of the great disappointments of my life. When I was little, my parents dutifully took us to church, St Thomas with St Stephen Church, Telford Avenue, Streatham, every...
