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The Gale at the Nore. Part 7. Retribution.
With Richard Parker’s surrender and imprisonment, the inevitable retribution began. The British Navy had a tradition of leniency towards certain kinds of mutiny but by the same token ruthlessly… more →
Age Of Sail
Money Is a Loaded Subject
wrote 1 day ago: This post is in response to Jelena Soljaga’s request for a link to OSHO. I find her blog intr … more →
Piecemeal: A Response To "I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage" by Doug Mainwaring
wrote 1 month ago: My first public blog entry will discuss the recent article posted by The Witherspoon Institute on th … more →
So farewell then...
wrote 2 months ago: Cap’n Peacock, he of ‘Are you Being Served?’ fame. I really hated that series … more →
Hough... How? Huff? Hocht?
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wrote 2 months ago: There was an item on Radio 4′s Today programme this morning about the pronunciation of names. … more →
Ipswich Labour Oppose a good State Education
wrote 11 months ago: This article sums up the idiocy of socialism beautifully. Like Comrade Miliband I too had a dream! I … more →
Stealing the Whigs Clothes
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wrote 1 year ago: In today’s Ipswich Morning Star, Captain Mainwaring is stealing the Whigs clothes. Labour’s PPC for … more →
Dad's Army
wrote 1 year ago: After watching “The showing up of Corporal Jones” on BBC2 tonight, I thought that it was only just t … more →
China: Is it the future of world politics - or not?
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wrote 1 year ago: Colonel Sanders is looking young - and Chinese - at the opening of a new KFC outlet in Beijing. It … more →
Sea Grammar
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wrote 2 years ago: This post is about Captain John Smith’s Sea Grammar of 1627, itself an enlargement of his 1626 … more →
Je joue, tu joues, elle joue ...
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wrote 3 years ago: Bonne année à tous. Back to work tomorrow and really not up for it – the holidays have been wo … more →
The Gale at the Nore. Part 7. Retribution.
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wrote 3 years ago: With Richard Parker’s surrender and imprisonment, the inevitable retribution began. The Britis … more →
The Gale at The Nore. Part 5. Climax.
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wrote 3 years ago: HMS Clyde escapes from the mutinous fleet at The Nore When we last visited the mutiny at The Nore, t … more →
The Gale at The Nore. Part 4. Negotiation
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wrote 3 years ago: I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a victim of adult onset attention deficit disorder. … more →
The Gale at The Nore. Part 3. Quiescence.
wrote 3 years ago: From the beginning the mutiny at The Nore had a more pronounced element of mob rule than did the mut … more →
The Gale at the Nore. Richard Parker. Part 2.
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wrote 4 years ago: Personnel is policy. This is just as true in mutiny as it is in business and government. Where the S … more →
The Gale At The Nore. Part 1. Prelude.
wrote 4 years ago: Like the mutiny at Spithead, the Nore mutiny was born of anger and frustration on the part of the co … more →
The Breeze at Spithead Becomes The Gale at The Nore
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wrote 4 years ago: If you were an observer at the gala celebrating the end to the Spithead mutiny you might have notice … more →
The Breeze at Spithead. Part 10. Investigation and Lessons Learned.
wrote 4 years ago: One of the bugbears afflicting the British government during the Spithead mutiny was the notion that … more →
The Breeze At Spithead. Part 9. The Grand Finale.
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wrote 4 years ago: Now the dalliance of Parliament and the blinding stupidity of the Admiralty combined into what was a … more →
