History, Politics And Current Affairs

22 – My precious Three separate black cab drivers on Bayswater Road had ignored her. Three! Katerina had never known anything like it. She loved London for its transport systems – its taxis, its Tube & its urban trains – which had always favoured her. Of course, Moscow’s was better, but Britain...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 11:09 pm Easier said than done. She's either in a long term bolt hole or out of the country.

Out will be the best bet. But it needs funding first.

21 – New Forest Ambush Nathan was in a car with blue flashing lights. It wasn’t a police car though the lights behind the front grill were fitted to give it the appearance of one. Those were on and flashing as the Saab sedan raced up behind an old panel van. “Stuff it, I’m hitting the siren too.” T...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 1:47 am Run far and fast, then into a deep hole.

She will, but she'll leave in style.

20 – The Service will want its revenge The MV Venus made port late on a Thursday evening. It was dark, cold, windy and wet. The weather matched the waters: unsettled and foreboding. Into Poole, down in Dorset, the little ship went. The captain dealt with the harbour master while his crew set about ...

Big it's going to be.

19 – SPEARMINT caught Katerina was away from the rezidentura this morning. She took part in nothing more than a farce therefore missing the events back there, all for the sake of appearances and a bigger cause than the one which she was fighting for. Her absence was due to the need to meet with Zac...

Pdf27 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:53 pm

Leander wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:46 pmNo one would be brave enough to tell a real story of inner city urban knife crime.

It would also be relentlessly grim. Who wants to watch that?

I cannot disagree.

No one would be brave enough to tell a real story of inner city urban knife crime.
Top Boy - also Netflix - had the potential but soon they were all heroes fighting the big bad racist government.

18 – Clearing some matters up The dead German girl in America, the one whose picture was on the screen before Hannah, looked a heck of a lot like her little sister Holly. A non-identical twin alongside her brother Hamish, Holly was the spitting image of the young woman who was embroiled in a sex sc...

My apologies for not keeping up with the tale. When my eyes are working better and their changed Px corrected, I'll be back... There's a lot going on! In fact, we are heading for a conclusion at - some point - soon. We're rather good at that. There'll be plenty of breadcrumbs to follow as well. The...

17 – Death of a Senator Not since 1968 had a sitting United States Senator been murdered. There had been ‘incidents’ since then, some of which hadn’t made it anywhere near the news media, but Bobby Kennedy had been the last member of Congress’ upper chamber to be killed while serving. That was unti...

A different American by the name of Goldberg has been making the news recently. But I already used the name in Chapter 7.
Mine is, of course, fictional.

16 – Thames House “Fi-Fi, come sign this card for Abigail, will you?” Phoebe stood up from her desk and went over towards where Hannah was standing with the rest of her team, minus Abigail of course. As she crossed the section of the fourth floor within Thames House, the home to MI-5 which sat besi...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 12:14 am That's called a clue, heed it.

Oh, Phoebe got the clue indeed. But her actions won't be as they should rightly be!

15 – With pity Nathan was sitting in a car with Daniel, one parked in Shoreditch over in East London. They were waiting for someone. A woman was coming, such was all that Daniel would reveal, to tell him something and when she did, Nathan wouldn’t be here to listen. Instead, his job was to watch hi...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 8:46 pm She needs to get out sooner, not later.

They both need to TBF.

The first best holiday was when I was eleven to the newly-opened Eurodisney in Paris. The fun factor at that age is fondly remembered. I took a short holiday recently. Less than a week from England to Ireland to see family. I started on the Wednesday evening by taking a 7pm train from where I am in ...

$460 a month.
That's a lot. £396 in UK money. I might spent half that.
The DOD would buy food in bulk, getting the best deal for the lowest quality as well.
So where's the money gone? Down the back of someone's sofa?

14 – Flight Fund Katerina came out of the coffee shop and stood in the closed doorway for a moment. She reached up to her left ear and tapped the lobe with a finger, twice in quick succession. It wasn’t the most dramatic of movements but not so subtle either. Confident that Josephine would have see...