When I started my ‘Helots’ Tale’ research into the lives of Robert Bright and Mary Ann Goulding or Goulden or Golding, I had only the sketchiest of information about them. My research led me down paths I had not imagined and as the days went by I found the story almost writing itself as the […]
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I reacted with both anger and disgust at the recent brutish harassment of the leader of the UK opposition outside parliament following yet another Boris Johnson lie, this time repeating a right wing conspiracy slur in Parliament (that has been debunked many times) about Sir Kier Starmer’s time as Chief Prosecutor when a serial paedophile […]
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(Click on heading to leave a comment at bottom of page) Christmas is here once again. Despite COVID and the need to nurse my poor wife back to health after breaking her pelvis (ouch!), the tree is up, lights flash and baubles and tinsel sparkle. This time of year is too special to shuffle celebrations […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I am currently working on a historic detective novel, part of which takes place in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. As I always do, I’m spending a lot of my time in research. Edinburgh is familiar territory for me – and it’s one of the […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I was looking at the soaring gold price today – a sign that inflation is on the horizon as a result of the massive money-printing that is going on across the globe to stave off or mitigate the evils of a recession. Following catastrophic bush […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) The horrible images of unjust killings and brutal policing that have come out of the USA in recent weeks reflects a culture of haves and have-nots. Having lived in both South Africa during the era of apartheid and the USA – in both the north […]
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(click on heading to leave comments at bottom of page) I had intended to write more about Mary Ann Goulding’s story but the last 10 days in the USA have been momentous ones and have demanded attention. The murder of George Floyd and its stirring of memories of similar racist attacks and its renewed exposure […]
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