Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
The month before Christmas. The City council pull the financial plug on the Nottingham Castle Trust, leaving them without a penny in the kitty and no choice but to liquidate and throw their employees out.Forty-seven redundancies. Forty-seven Nottingham Castle employees were thrown onto the cobbles.What a bleak Christmas they must have faced. For them, a... Continue Reading →
Why did Nottingham Castle close? You’ll get the truth here. I haven’t got a bloody clue why it closed! I simply do not have enough financial information, or financial expertise to make a judgment and, along with most of us, must await the report of the liquidators to the castle’s creditors, or the report of ... Continue Reading →
` This is every word of the evidence given by witnesses to the alleged racist incident at Nottingham Castle. The evidence was given, to the external independent inquiry, commissioned by the Trustees of Nottingham Castle and is extracted directly from their report dated 24th January 2022 It exposes a number of important points about... Continue Reading →
This is every word of evidence given by witnessess who appeard before the independent external inquirey inot a "racist incident" at Nottingham Castle.
This post is a follow-up to “Why the call to boycott Nottingham Castle is wrong” Available here/ Rather predictably, because I sought to throw doubt upon the validity of the call to boycott, I have been identified as a white man and declared to be a racist. In fairness, such a charge is always... Continue Reading →
The Boycott is an extremely powerful tool. An extremely powerful word. To call upon the general public to withdraw from commercial cultural and social relationships with the target of the boycott requires exceptional grounds to be justifiable. Originally it was used against Landlords evicting their tenants in Ireland. It was the 19th-century form of... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 