The Cynical Tendency

The news has mention of two men aged 111, both born on 29 March 1908 one Scots and one English, Robert Weighton who is on the 1911 Ce...

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This post, I suspect, will be disliked by some and others may not agree with my position on issues that for many are central to moder...

Time for a poem on Europe. There was a PM called May, Whose mind changed day by day. On one day a must, The next became dus...

From time to time there is an obituary which triggers memories of the past. You never quite know who might in the lists and how far t...

Long ago when going to a play written by William Shakespeare, you would expect to see a more or less straight performance going liter...

Ever since money was invented and so the ability to move wealth readily from one place to another in various forms of acceptable good...