Son of Sar
The general ravings of an almost anonymous historian.
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
A Letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
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Dear Vice Chancellor, Forty-one years ago, almost to the day, I was instructed by my 6 th Form tutor to take one of the last appointmen...
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Friday, 10 July 2020
Notre Dame, feelings after the fire
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Notre Dame, feelings after the fire (from a Facebook post of 16 April 2019) I’ve been doing some thinking about exactly why I and ...
Monday, 11 May 2020
Boris Johnson’s Top Ten Tips for the New-Look Lockdown
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1. Stay alert. 2. Wibble doff doff, whoooo! 3. Fantastic NHS. 4. We will fight. On the beaches. 5. Fna...
Friday, 8 May 2020
“We Survived the War!” Misappropriating and Misremembering
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As it’s VE Day, I’ve been reading a bit about how people remember wars. That is, how we commemorate and what that says about us, rather ...
The Brexit Tree
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The Brexit Hall of Lame: The Brexit Tree. At the time of brexit I couldn't help felling that this tree, in my village, with the tips o...
Thursday, 7 May 2020
The Brexit Hall of Lame: “Michael” The Govelin “Gove”
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The Brexit Hall of Lame: “Michael” The Govelin “Gove” Having covered Farage, the leader, and all the Prime Ministers, the Brexit Hall of ...
The Brexit Hall of Lame: Boris Johnson
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The Brexit Hall of Lame: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel “ Boris Johnson ” Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel “ Boris...
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