Rick Brindle

  In the UK it has been settled since 2010. The Equality Act protects lots of people in our society from discrimination, and it’s been a legal thing for sixteen years now. As you can imagine, it was brought in by a labour government. I mean, no way would the tories introduce something that actually protected ordinary people, unless there was something in it for them and their rich mates as well. Interestingly though, they didn’t repeal it, even after a 14 year car crash in power, including the living disaster that is brexit. The act mirrors and implements he four major EU Equal Treatment Directives. There’s also the Gender Recognition Act, 2004, also a labour achievement, which gave people the legal right to change their gender. And let’s be clear, trans people have been around, like, for ever, so it’s not exactly a new thing. What is relatively new is that weird thing called tolerance. Of course, it’s not there everywhere, and it’s fair to say that we’re on a journey, but hopefull...

  Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard , the third novel in the Cold Steel series, is free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your free copy now! Cold Steel are back! Their new album has just been released. Their previously cancelled Spanish tour dates have been rearranged, with the female trio and Spain’s biggest metal band, Damas Infernales, supporting. Cold Steel’s biggest asset though, is Johnny Faslane, their brutally talented manager. But even Johnny can’t fully eliminate Cold Steel’s innate ability to spectacularly destroy their prospects, and even before their second concert ends, the tour is scrapped after an ill-advised trip back to the eighties, and the band are put into creative deep freeze by their record company. Only an unprecedented event and a lot of money can possibly turn their fortunes around. Like a five hundred year old treasure hoard that a long dead pirate once offered in return for his life, treasure that has never been found. Cold Steel fin...

Military: If we’re talking best made, as in most likely to get you back home, then this bad boy must be up there. The Vickers Wellington. This aircraft was designed in the 1930s and was built using what was called a geodetic airframe. This made it very durable, and crucially, able to take a lot of damage while remining flying. At the end of World War 2, there were jet aircraft being used, but the Wellington was both built and used for the whole war, and that tells you a lot about its versatility. And the best civilian one was another Vickers aircraft, the VC10 It was designed to operate from short runways and fly long distance. It held the transatlantic speed record for 41 years, and served as both a civilian airliner, and in air forces as a cargo plane, air to air refuelling, passenger flights and aero medical evacuation. Both aircraft were really good examples of excellent British aircraft innovation. It's Not For Everyone   Cold Steel on the Rocks   We Are Cold Steel  ...