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The new Shrek looks awful.

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Living in spite of death. There is something compelling about graveyards and the narrative they provide for the living. Once people gathered around these memorials, no doubt expressing the undertaking of eternal remembrance…

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Win tickets for the most exhilarating UK motorsport event: The 2024 FIM British Speedway Grand Prix. Kirkeytalk.com has teamed up with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports to provide five pairs of tickets for the Monster Energy 2024 FIM British Speedway Grand Prix to be held at The Principality Stadium, …

The Book What I Wrote.

Sliding Through Life – Scott Nicholls Autobiography with Ian Kirke.

Sliding Through Life – Scott Nicholls Autobiography. Join one of the most decorated national speedway champions as he reflects upon his roller-coaster life, often on two wheels, but more so as an ordinary human being trying to make sense of it all. T…

From my experience as a cop, the defendants who claimed that the judicial system was rigged were the vilest, sh*ttiest, nastiest creatures I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet. And they were all as guilty as f**k.

The Stormy Daniels hush money story reminds me of a night of passion spent with Windy Wendy.

In the morning after I treated her to a full English at the all you can eat Travelodge restaurant she promised never to talk about the previous night’s disappointment ever again.

Can you love and hate someone at the same time?

To discover the answer read my article in Sorted Magazine –

Love and hate: the passion paradigm.

The passion paradigm - Sorted Magazine Love and hate are powerful feelings. They occupy opposite sides of the coin of emotion; however, I would contend that the latter term is more emotionally charged. Love can occupy a lengthy continuum from mild to meteoric, whilst hate has a narrower band. I’ve used the word 'love' to cover…

How Sunak and his Tory predecessors have systematically destroyed the police (part 2 of 2)

Frankie and Kirkey are joined by Dr Roy Bailey of Portsmouth University, and former senior police officer, to discuss how the populist and offensive vocabulary used by Home Secretaries has a damaging impact on the ability of frontline officers to prevent crime and support victims.

How Sunak and his Tory predecessors have systematically destroyed the police (part 2 of 2) by Cops, Capers & Custard Frankie and Kirkey are joined by Dr Roy Bailey of Portsmouth University, and former senior police officer, to discuss how the populist and offensive vocabulary used by Home Secretaries has a damaging impact on the ability of frontline officers to prevent crime and support victims.

How Sunak and his Tory predecessors have systematically destroyed the police (part 1 of 2)

Frankie and Kirkey are joined by Dr Roy Bailey of Portsmouth University, and former senior police officer, to discuss how the populist and offensive vocabulary used by Home Secretaries has a damaging impact on the ability of frontline officers to prevent crime and support victims.

How Sunak and his Tory predecessors have systematically destroyed the police (part 1 of 2) by Cops, Capers & Custard Frankie and Kirkey are joined by Dr Roy Bailey of Portsmouth University, and former senior police officer, to discuss how the populist and offensive vocabulary used by Home Secretaries has a damaging impact on the ability of frontline officers to prevent crime and support victims.

Secrets: a risk worth accepting?

Can you keep a secret?

Secrets: a risk worth accepting? The question, “can you keep a secret?” caresses intrigue like no other statement can ever hope to do. At its heart there is a burning invitation to indulge in wonder, speculation, or conviction – a…

Suspicion: the murder that never happened.

How suspicious are you? Is paranoia a reliable defence mechanism, or is it vulnerable to exploitation?

Suspicion: the murder that never happened. Eagerly anticipating my second adventure to India, I never once considered the commission of any form of crime, especially not my demise at the hands of a murderer. I’d never been to Goa, the final…

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Berkshire, bigotry, and Braverman: how British are you?

Berkshire, bigotry and Braverman: how British are you? Once upon a time in a place not too far away there were brown and white faces of varying tones, straight and gay guys and girls all together, either revering a raft of religious beliefs, or not bel…

My view on the Lucy Letby case.

Thou shalt not kill: is capital punishment the answer? Lucy Letby is a callous monster ─ the most despicable specimen of humanity; however, can I really frame her existence within the context of what I believe it is to be a human being? Surely, she def…

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Win tickets for the most exhilarating UK motorsport event: The 2023 FIM British Speedway Grand Prix.

Win tickets for the most exhilarating UK motorsport event: The 2023 FIM British Speedway Grand Prix. Kirkeytalk.com has teamed up with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports to provide five pairs of tickets for the Monster Energy 2023 FIM British Speedway Grand Prix to be held at The Principality Stadium, …

I’ve just binge watched The Sixth Commandment on BBC.

One of the most compelling TV adaptations of true events I’ve ever watched.

An incredible investigation by Thames Valley Police Major Crime handled with care, compassion and conviction. Kirkey.

Coming soon on Cops, Capers & Custard …

Policing the Dark Side: when the thin blue line is crossed.

Frankie and Kirkey uniquely turn the spotlight on themselves and challenge their own use of “dark humour” - a narrative so often utilised by cops. Is it normal, and if so, when does it become amoral?

Joined by Kelly Franklin - a post graduate psychologist - the team navigates the fun, and the ultimate destruction caused when banter exceeds the boundaries.

Kirkeytalk: Trying to make sense of the reaction to the Huw Edwards story …

Gruesome gossip: the soulless pursuit of titillation.

Gruesome gossip: the soulless pursuit of titillation. If human communication was simply the exchange of sanitised data life would be pretty dull. We are an emotional species and have an eternal obsession with exploring, questioning and dreaming. As th…

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Gruesome gossip: the soulless pursuit of titillation.

What should we talk about today? The world according to Kirkey

How do I break this to you? Your life is nothing more than a sophisticated game of Pac-Man…

Is this the real life or is this just fantasy: no escape from reality? I love a good natter: from idle chit-chat through to the philosophical riddles of life. At the lower end of the communication continuum, the topic of talk rarely bewilders or bamboozles me. Similar…

War: what is it good for?

On the anniversary of D-Day, Ian Kirke looks back at a visit to the Imperial War Museum and contemplates the nature of war.

War: what is it good for? On the anniversary of D-Day, Ian Kirke looks back at a visit to the Imperial War Museum and contemplates the nature of war.

Dialogue with the devil? Conversations with a serial killer.

Kirkey talks to then man who was instrumental in convicting the killer of Milly Dowler.

Dialogue with the devil? Conversations with a serial killer. As a cop there were some delicious moments when I left the claustrophobic confines of an interview room and punched the air in triumph! Unfortunately these were rare, since the vast majority of the…

Released on Amazon!

Submitted today for publication, it can take up to three days (Wednesday 7th June?) for them to make it available, but it has been finished and published!

The much anticipated continuation of the tale from Book one!

The cottage and the Yew Tree still stand in the tiny hamlet in Hertfordshire, the story has moved to 1939 and war is looming across Europe.
Dennis is a nine year old boy who lives in the cottage with his parents, he has an idyllic childhood that is about to be smashed as his Father prepares to leave to fight for King and country.
Charles does not want to leave his family or the cottage but as a man who served in the last war and still an officer in the Herts and Beds regiment, his sense of loyalty to the army is challenged by his love of family life.
Dennis and his pals carry on with their schooling and their lives but tragedy is never far away and his Mother makes a decision to move to the safety of a small Dorset village. War is never far away even in the beauty of Dorset, Dennis settles in but thoughts of home and the Old Tree are never far away.
1939, 1940 and 1941 are difficult years for Dennis and his family, tragedy, danger and excitement follow this young man around.

The final part of the tale, set in 1970, will bring the whole story from 1850 to a conclusion. Dennis lives in the cottage with his wife and two children, changes are afoot for them as a family, changes that may have consequences for the future of them as a family, for the cottage and for the Yew Tree.
The tree stands alone and aged in the same place it has for centuries, the secrets it keeps and the fear it commands as part of its life are to be challenged by events that will affect the family now and forever.
Dennis faces adversities that are out of his control and these could change his life forever as history catches up with him and begins to reveal itself.

If you enjoyed Book one I hope you will have a read of Book two to get the answers to questions posed from centuries ago!

Sadly, Amazon have increased printing charges so the cost has risen, nothing I can do about that I am afraid!

Thanks as always to Simon Bowden and Obelus publishing.

Enjoy!

Kirkey goes back to Sully.

Policing my past ─ the artefacts of crime. A long time ago in an existence far, far away, I was a police officer. Joining in 1982, that year and those that followed were once my present day. My era. My modern-day. Nobody ever lives in histo…

Kirkey talks p**n and pyramids …

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Engrossed in Erotica: a female perspective on p**n.
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The structure of immortality: the Pharaohs fantasy.
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Cops, capers and custard: The King’s Coronation Part 1 & 2.

Frankie and Kirkey look back on the policing of the King’s Coronation and ponder how well it went and pose the question – have the police lost their way in matters of straight talking?

Completely losing all track of time the two old farts have to make a second instalment to conclude the debate before retelling some funny policing stories that may or may not be true before finishing up with a tasty kebab.

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