Tell A Tale

The traditional bed time book is dying out .....

The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Francis Barlow's Illustration 1687

..... according to a poll commissioned by Rory's Story Cubes.

Losing Original Purpose

There are some commercial organisations that lose their original purpose .....

 

Poundland Store "Everything's £1"

..... sometimes its deliberate and by design, as they change focus e.g. start chasing revenues, and sometimes they are simply overtaken by events.

 

Brutal Policing States

More than 1,300 people were arrested for unsanctioned protesting against the order, by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that a further 300,000 Russian men were to be called up go fight in his war against the Ukraine ... 

Russian Protestors Meet Usual Brutality

... the protests were met with the usual dictatorship brutality, which we see in all authoritarian states similar to Russia.

Comprehending The Incomprehensible

This week a 28 year old person apparently decided to end their life via suicide by cop .....

Audrey Hale

 .... this method of suicide is commonly used by:

• those who are afraid of personally taking their own life, 
• those who think self suicide is a sin, or 
• those who have committed a crime and don't want to face incarceration.

Greedy Crooks

Allesandro Iembo, a 28 year old Italian, who worked as a kitchen assistant in a Wetherspoons, Bournemouth pub called the 'Mary Shelley' arrived in a private aircraft flight from Colombia, at Farnborough airfield, with four other gentlemen in January 2018 ....

Allesandro Iembo - Drug Smuggler

... where they were all promptly arrested with 15 suitcases, containing 513 packets of cocaine worth around £43 million.

Gangsta Paradise

Rakim Hasheem Allen was a Los Angeles rapper using the name 'PnB Rock'. He has been shot dead in a robbery attempt at a Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles.

Bling Gets You Killed

The robber is alleged to have demanded his jewellery before opening fire multiple times at the rapper. Its assumed from initial reports that he fired after the rapper refused to hand over his bling.

The Forgotten Nine

The BBC ran an interesting story about the forgotten heroines of the French Resistance (FR) .....

T: Clockwise from top right: Zinka, Nicole, Josée, Zaza
M: Hélène Podliasky
B: Clockwise from top right: Jacky, Lon, Mena and Guigui

 .... most, if not all of whom were almost totally forgotten about after the war ended.

Crime - Punishment And Redemption

Branded Criminal

Lee Small is man whose brain may be matching his name. He has embarked upon the life of a petty criminal with one small but fatal flaw. 

Lee Small - Branded An Idiot

He has his first name tattooed prominently on his neck. Add to the fact that he lives in the small town of Barnstaple in Devon, where most people are known to each other. So Quelle Surprise, he was jailed for three years for robbing a man at knife-point in a graveyard.

Hypocrites Unleashed

As you might have expected ..... the death of Queen Elizabeth II has allowed a lot of mealy mouthed critics, in both the USA and the UK, to voice their views on the Monarchy, the British Empire, Queen Victoria, King Charles III, European Colonialism and Slavery.

African Diaspora (Alice Hunter)

Most of these critics are from the black diaspora, people living in white majority countries often as a direct or indirect result of slavery or colonialism, and consequently are in positions of privilege that their brethren still in Africa or the Caribbean can only dream of.

Saudi Liberal Lies And Crackdowns

Salma al-Shehab, is a mother of two and a Saudi citizen ....

Salma al-Shehab At The 2014
Riyadh International Book Fair

 ... she is also a member of the Shia minority in that country but a majority in other neighbouring states such as Sunni ruled Bahrain. So for many Sunni Muslims in the Saudi religious establishment and government, she is considered to be both a heretic, and potentially an agent for Shia Iran.

Kissed By A Kangeroo

Australia is home to about 50 million kangaroos ....

The Fearsome And Impressive 'Roger'

.......which can weigh up to 90kg and grow to 2m tall.

When Madness Rules

In the land of the Mullahs, no laws ever seem too stupid or too repressive as hardliners like to expose their iron fist of control over the people ....

Iranians Increasingly Owned Dogs As Pets

 ... so in the Iranian capital, Tehran, police recently announced that walking dogs in parks was a crime and justified the ban as being a measure to "protect the safety of the public".

Little Wangs

China is full of little wangs, men who need the falsehood of ground up tiger bones to sustain their self image as sexual warriors.

Attack Started Inside Restaurant
....... Before Continuing Outside

They consider the Chinese woman to be subordinate to their own view of their machismo, and are prepared to use violence to reinforce that idea.

Nice And Dreary Does It

Dull, a village in Perth and Kinross was already twinned with the town of Boring in Oregon USA.

Not So Dull Really

But not content with that, in 2017 they increased this by twinning with the Australian town of Bland Shire in New South Wales ...

Old Soldiers

If you have ever watched the epic film Zulu .....

Colour Sergeant Bourne - As Seen In The Movie

 ..... Then without doubt one of the strongest characters in it was Colour Sergeant Bourne. Oddly he never gets a Victoria Cross in the citations read out in the movies final scene.

Leftie ReDoubts

In Democrat controlled San Francisco in the past two years or more .....

Tenderloin and SoMa - San Francisco

 ..... 1,300 plus people have died of drug overdoses in the city - many of the dead who have been found, were in a tiny area in the city centre - perhaps 10 blocks by 12 blocks - incorporating the Tenderloin and another district, SoMa, both of which have been in a state of emergency in 2022.

Give A Teen A Gun

As if to confirm an earlier post summary .....

Smirking Fool - Keith Moses Spree Killer

.... Keith Moses a 19 year old smirking mass murderer, was arrested in Pine Hills, Florida USA, on Wednesday the 23rd of February 2023, after a spree shooting in which he first killed 38 year old Nathacha Augustin, who was a passenger in a car whose driver, Moses cousin, had offered Moses a lift.