Sunday, 19 February 2023

Extremely Unbalanced Clerihew written after listening to Death Grips

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Harry  likes playing dress-up too.     If Ice-T, who sang 'Cop Killer', were to shoot a man who calls himself Harry Miller who runs ...
Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Ghostwatch

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  Bad trips tattooed on the unconscious of Old England. Belfast black magic and the ghosts of Roundhay Park. An akasic detonation at the hom...
Saturday, 11 February 2023

Angel's Lament

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The loneliness is what destroys. The need to stay just paranoid enough to not be taken by surprise. The weighing up of alibis:  are those tw...
Thursday, 9 February 2023

Crossing the Channel in a Positive Light

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The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown Small boats crossing the Channel are great, not just because they make Sue-Ellen irate: they reunite f...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

Albia, September 2001

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A week later and the flags still at half-mast. No-one wants to break ranks, to be the first to interrupt the public mourning. It reminds her...
Tuesday, 31 January 2023

'The pleasure of shaking a tail': Bill Hagchester on memoirs of intelligence

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From the Albian Review of Books , May 2023: To be a historian of espionage is not, by and large, a Romantic endeavour. The fact is that for ...
Thursday, 19 January 2023

Death is One of the Main Characters

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It was surprising how quickly the old order fell. Hunkered in Balmoral, the Windsors and forces loyal to them tried to break out and take th...