Author Archives: odeboyz

Book Review: Peter James ~ Dead if you don’t (2018)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by odeboyz

Although I think that the Roy Grace novels are excellent I nearly finished reading this one at chapter two. The three pages (pp4-6) of that chapter sickened me with their sadism. They were a reiteration of the Nazi Dr Mengele,1 … Continue reading →

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A modern Faustian pact

Posted on March 4, 2019 by odeboyz

An attorney was working late one night when, suddenly, Satan appeared before him. He made him an offer. “I’ll make it so you win every case for the rest of your life. Your clients will worship you, your colleagues will … Continue reading →

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When I was young, I wanted to be old

Posted on March 3, 2019 by odeboyz

I’d like to be told No, you’re not getting old, That I’m still a fine figure Full of bright charm and vigour. But the truth is , I’m not so blest Can’t run for a bus Without pains in my … Continue reading →

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Satire was murdered in Missouri

Posted on February 28, 2019 by odeboyz
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A wonderful insight into the charm of the Queen

Posted on February 28, 2019 by odeboyz

The queen was having a meal with David Nott a surgeon who’d just returned from Aleppo. She asked, as she always does, where he was from and he said he’d just returned from Aleppo. She asked him what it was … Continue reading →

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Laptops, exercise books and textbooks

Posted on February 28, 2019 by odeboyz

Exercise books and textbooks are obsolete. Both are quaint relics in an era of search engines such as Google. Teachers and schools may well feel that ditching exercise books and textbook is too revolutionary. There’s also the possibility that entrenched … Continue reading →

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The partition of Poland- Autumn 1939

Posted on February 25, 2019 by odeboyz

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Book Review: William Melvin Kelley ~ A Different Drummer (1962)

Posted on February 25, 2019 by odeboyz

A Different Drummer is set in America’s deep south in the segregation era. The principal black character is Tucker Caliban working for the family that had, generations previously, owned slaves including Tucker’s great grand-father. The central white family stills owns … Continue reading →

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The price of the Conservatives austerity programme, 2010-19

Posted on February 21, 2019 by odeboyz

A 2017 study published by the British Medical Journal linked health and social care budget cuts to nearly 120,000 excess deaths in the UK since 2010. Last year, the Office for National Statistics revealed that life expectancy has stopped rising … Continue reading →

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Politics over thirty six years

Posted on February 20, 2019 by odeboyz

During my life as a hard line unionist I’ve considered myself to be on the left of main stream politics. In the late 1970s I was very tempted to join the Communist party but instead, in the summer of 1983, … Continue reading →

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