by David West | Dec 28, 2025 | News
The Tay Bridge disaster, one of the most infamous engineering tragedies in British history, occurred on the evening of the 28th of December 1879. It involved the catastrophic collapse of a section of the original Tay Railway Bridge during a violent winter storm,...
by David West | Dec 27, 2025 | News
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the 27th of December 2007. I am a life member of the Oxford Union which I joined shortly after matriculating in September 1979. Sadly I was just a few years late for Richard Nixon’s speech to the Oxford Union where he admitted to...
by David West | Dec 26, 2025 | Readers Club
What can I say about Karla and Karla’s Choice? I posted recently about having read John Le Carre’s George Smiley series in the correct order. I have just reread Karla’s Choice, having read it in the summer. Now it makes much more sense. It is written by Nick...
by David West | Dec 26, 2025 | News
I have written about my father’s war as a Desert Rat. I was commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve and have an interest in ships and the sea. I have also written about the sinking of the Bismark, but today I shall write about the Scharnhorst. The German warship...
by David West | Dec 25, 2025 | News
Happy Christmas dear readers. I have previously written about the origin of the 25th of December as the date on which we celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. So I have chosen to write about Sweyn Forkbeard today. He was King of Denmark from 986 CE, and according...
