“We’re all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles”. Set in the fag end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy London Purveyor of pulp fiction, Man-Eating Typewriter is a homage to the avant-garde counterculture of the 20th century. Millward’s story of 1960s Soho, told in Polari slang, with elements of sailors’ Italian, Yiddish, Romany and Irish spread from travellers of fairgrounds and dockyard to become a coded dialect for gay men in the mid-20th century Britain. Man-eating typewriter unspools in flavoursome Polari with intricate, hilarious and recounts … Continue reading Swinging Sixties

Presidents of US, EU and France have all stuck deals in 2023 with Rishi Sunak and has agreements on the Northern Ireland protocol, the Aukus security pact, and bilateral co-operation on migration and defence with France. The Tory party, is the world’s most successful centre-right political party governing for two thirds of the past 100 years, who has an infinite capacity for reinvention after the fever dream of Brexit and Trumpian insurgency. Reinventing its ideology and changing its leaders have been pivotal to its election successes. Historian, Tim Bale, offers an analytical narrative of the Tory Party since Britain voted … Continue reading Convincing and most adaptable

Beijing-based international lawyer who lived in China for more than 25-years, James Zimmerman’s gripping new book The Peking Express recreates the incident at 2:40am on May 6th 1923, a short distance from the town of Lincheng in Shandong province, in which bandits kidnapped Peking Express, a luxury train and a first-class sleeper carriage carrying the bejewelled members of the global elite with a pre-dawn clever derailment, using rifle shotes like firecrackers, smashing windows creating chaos, Some of the passengers were shot dead as the bandits stormed the train, while others were injured. Although a few managed to escape by crawling … Continue reading Elites kidnapped

The Patriarchs, by award-winning science journalist, Angela Saini, goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. … Continue reading True roots genders oppression