Little Gems

 My Little Gems is finished. I hope yours is coming along and you are ready to put it together. Lets take a closer look.   If you are new to...

The Soul Of A City

The last week in August 2005 a nation, admittedly persons around the world, watched with growing alarm as a force of nature spun toward the ...

Vanished Leicester: St Nicholas Street

Copyright   ©  Dennis Calow Writing of the Leicester parish of St Nicholas in 1958, the Victoria County History  for Leicestershire said: Th...

Tim Farron sounds the right note on economics

View image | gettyimages.com Tim Farron gave a major speech on economics at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London on Thursday...

Fat, Added Fat, and Obesity in America

In the last post, we saw that carbohydrate and particularly sugar intake have been declining in the US since 1999, even as our obesity rate ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Mary Berry is unmasked

Marry Berry is unmasked There was outrage at the identity of the finalists of the Great British Bake Off and, though it was an ugly affair, ...

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound: Like the Sun Like the Fire

I have written before about the first single I ever bought: Kites by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. It seems my preference for Mellotrons ...

Hatfield to St Albans in 1968

This silent video shows the Hatfield to St Albans in line in 1968, the last year that goods trains operated along it. Passenger services had...

Jim Slater and British chess

View image | gettyimages.com The financier Jim Slater, whose rise and fall were once the talk of the City, died on Wednesday. His Telegraph...