History, Politics And Current Affairs

1983 is amazing.
Finestkind was damn good.
I'm currently watching Deadwood on Paramount too.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:19 am Has anyone seen this?

Yep.
It was okay. Not brilliant nor rubbish, just okay.

Absolute brilliant film.
Dementus was wonderful, best bad guy I've seen in a while!

I'll be finishing up this story before the week is out. I've been ghastly ill yet recovered, and so will be back writing ASAP. Get more chicken soup. :lol: Yeah, not sure if that would have helped! Glad you’re feeling better. I had Covid, which I never had during the pandemic, then scaled myself in...

Eighteen – The Truth Three women met for lunch on Kilburn High Road many months after the general election. Their get together had been arranged for the previous week but cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. They were together today, sitting down in a fancy Persian restaurant over in a priva...

I'll be finishing up this story before the week is out.
I've been ghastly ill yet recovered, and so will be back writing ASAP.

Slow Horses is brilliant. Very good adaptation too of excellent source material.

Netflix have a mini series adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley.
Just finished it. Absolutely fantastic.

Seventeen – An Act Of War Caitlin was back at her job having officially returned from gardening leave to fulfil the role of the security correspondent for the National . Like everyone else at her newspaper, she was busy, busy, busy throughout the final two weeks of the election campaign. There was ...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:00 pm Ass covering is the order of the day.

But it will be too late. The damage is done.

Sixteen – Hands Sophie sat beside Mike. She’d move soon enough, to be opposite him across the table, but that was when it came to the formal bit of her being here. She had a few moments before that began and so she plonked her behind down next to her close colleague, someone she considered almost a...

Fifteen – Blame An elderly Canadian couple, the Hendersons, were bumped by Air Canada for a flight from London to Toronto. They hadn’t yet boarded though had been checked in. The airline had a representative at Heathrow make them an offer: C$1000 in travel vouchers (for future Air Canada flights), ...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:04 am One way to seal off a problem, only to create a geyser more.

It's a hasty move indeed.

Fourteen – #Epsteined MacDonald had insisted that Caitlin download the Panda messaging app. She knew what it was and didn’t want it on her phone. Her source, the former MI-6 officer, had said that there was no other secure method of communication that he would use if it wasn’t that. Agreeing in the...

Thirteen – Balaclava Woman Sophie went along when the Counter Intelligence handler assigned to Zvereva picked her up. There was no armed police team, no hood thrown over her head where afterwards the Belorussian exile would be taken to an underground interrogation room. Sophie would have liked to h...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:54 am In the grand scheme of things, does that matter to the power that be?

Yes, it will in the end. Like a lot of things, they will not want to believe it until it slaps them in the face though.

Twelve – Gold Pin It was just going to be one of those days. Sophie had a gut feeling before coming in today and was, unfortunately, proved correct. She started early, so did the trouble. A call from her superior alerted to her to the latest Angleton issue. That was a website for leaks with a prima...

Eleven – Follow The Money The raid took place at four in the morning. At that time, it was long before the sky even started to get light, ahead of dawn breaking too. Most people, the sensible ones anyway, were not just asleep in bed, but within a deep sleep. They would be dreaming and if awoken sud...

Blowing it all up is what many want to do.

Ten – Useful Titbit Sophie waited until Thursday afternoon before she went to see Caitlin. There was a lot to discover about the journalist first, much more than the Met. had looked into. They didn’t have the resources that NISS had, even when conducting a murder investigation. D.I. Glover was stil...