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Four sub-postmasters awarded OBEs

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Four sub-postmasters who campaigned for justice for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have been awarded OBEs in the New Years Honours. Seema Misra, Lee Castleton, Chris head and Jo Hamilton were given the honours after fellow campaigner Sir Alan Bates was knighted earlier this year. Mrs Misra was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010 and had her baby while serving in prison sentence. Misra who ran a Post Office in West Byfleet, suspended in 2008, wrongly accused of sealing £74000, was one of the hundreds of sub-postmasters … Continue reading Four sub-postmasters awarded OBEs

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Idiotic luxury indulged by people who do nothing, but moved by the spectacle of suffering

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French philosopher Vincent Delecroix’s novel, translated by Helen Stevenson, Small Boat, weaves a short, sharp, shocking tragic story shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025. In November 2021, an inflatable dingy carrying more than 30 migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel killing 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, at 1:45 am the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. Since the boat was about a kilometre from British waters, the same passengers kept calling Cross, shockingly, the female … Continue reading Idiotic luxury indulged by people who do nothing, but moved by the spectacle of suffering

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Voice to the Voiceless and Hope to the Hopeless

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Introduction to DARK HOLY GROUND by Linda Granville DARK HOLY GROUND: A Journey into Activism to Give Voice to the Voiceless and Hope to the Hopeless is a deeply personal and politically potent memoir from British activist and writer Linda Granville. Set in Middlesbrough, a once-thriving industrial town devastated by deindustrialisation and economic abandonment, this book is both a testimony of survival and a call to moral action. Granville’s story begins in the heart of hardship: an unemployed single mother navigating life on society’s margins in a town where iron and steel, shipbuilding and the chemical industry once provided prosperity but now lie … Continue reading Voice to the Voiceless and Hope to the Hopeless

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The Feminine Sea

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MUSE GALLERY: LUKE FOREMAN – “THE FEMININE SEA” 10-27 April 2025. 269 Portobello Road. W11 1LR info@themuseat269.com www.themuseat269londonCheck opening times before you travel. Closest tube – Ladbroke Grove. Also quite close to Notting Hill tube  and a wide network of buses. Using a purpose made printer for this photographic project, artistically composed (lighting/settings/form) hand printed  images of items coming from the sea are displayed in black and white as oak framed  artworks created by the talented photographic artist, Luke Foreman. Subject matter includes shells, octopuses, and other objects related to the marine theme. All artworks at the exhibition are Hand Printed on Ilford Warm Tone FB … Continue reading The Feminine Sea

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Fight, Thrill and Dazzle

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The ancient Roman Empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. Suetonius’ renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, invite us into the lives of the first Roman Emperor, Caesars more vividly or intimately than those by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in the early 2nd century AD. Suetonius succeeded in painting Rome’s ultimate portraits of power. The shortfalls, foreign policy crises and sex scandals of the emperors are … Continue reading Fight, Thrill and Dazzle

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McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wins Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

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McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wins the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix, his second victory of the season from pole position, with George Russell and Lando Norris second and third respectively. Norris handed early five-second penalty for false start. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton fourth and fifth respectively for Ferrari. Piastri led from lights to flag to finish 15 seconds clear of Mercedes’ Russell. Continue reading McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wins Bahrain F1 Grand Prix

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The Globe Theatre playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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Diving into theatrical history in the 21st century – Shakespearesglobe.com currently playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, soon to be performed Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare). It is a very popular venue, and don’t miss the details about the new Sam Wanamaker theatre next door and open all year round! The Globe Theatre at 21 Globe Walk, Bankside, Southwark, South London SE1 was in modern times the brain child of Sam Wanamaker who came to the UK in 1949, and who died in 1993. Building started in 1970 and finished in 1997 – they relied heavily on donations to complete the project and the … Continue reading The Globe Theatre playing Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

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Ireland was a laboratory for empire: While million starved grain was hoarded 

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In the 1800s, as Britain became the world’s most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. In 1847, Richard Webb, the rector of Caheragh, County Cork, sent a group of men to check on his parishioners. On arriving at a cluster of cottages, they were turned back by farmers who told them, “those houses are cursed”. Webb persisted sending another emissary who discovered the corpses of the Barry family there, half-eaten by dogs. The cleric wrote: “I need make no comment on this but ask, are we living in a portion of the United Kingdom?”. The Great Irish famine fractured long held … Continue reading Ireland was a laboratory for empire: While million starved grain was hoarded 

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Media Circus: Golden age of Magazines

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Graydon Carter’s brilliant raconteur of his own life of how he made his mark as one of society’s most talented editors and shapers of culture. Carter born in 1949, arrived in New York from Canada with little more than a suitcase, a failed literary magazine in his past and a keen sense of ambition. He landed a job as a floating writer at Time magazine in New York, selling 4 million copies a week, with salaries and expenses to match. After five years he was reassigned to Time’s sister magazine, Life, which “had become a zombie monthly, close to dead”. He … Continue reading Media Circus: Golden age of Magazines

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Scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment

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A celebrated psychiatrist who victimised young women for years. Jon Stock in The Sleep Room, exposé of a troubling and troubled men omit Dr William Sargant’s name form its title, reveals how far one of London’s best connected psychiatrists- Robert Graves, his one-time ghost writer, was a close friend- has fallen since the days when private patients thanked him with gifts of Rolls-Royces. Born in 1907, Sargant first earned his reputation as a medical wunderkind in the 1940s, when he started treating soldiers suffering from PTSD with a high combination of narcotics and electric shocks. Former patients who describe how … Continue reading Scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment