When Lord Orsam was a fresh-faced schoolboy - for, yes, there was such a time, long ago - one of his friends participated in a debate during English class at secondary school to advocate on behalf of the proposition that electronic instruments were killing music, or something similar, and needed to be banned. This was during the early 1980s (probably 1981) when songs which used synthesizers were starting to dominate the pop charts. His friend played the piano, liked the gro

Scott Nelson is a curious fellow, for sure.  A Simon Wood fanboy who once said his favourite Ripper book is  Deconstructing Jack  (a massive red flag as to a person's judgement) - yet, contrary to Wood's belief that Jack the Ripper never existed, has repeatedly expressed an inexplicable belief that Jack the Ripper was someone called Henry Defries (see Defries with that? ) - he is probably best known for publicly begging authors to send him free "complimentary" copies of thei

SUMMONING UP THE MAGICIAN It's a well-known fact that if you type the name "Macnaghten" into the Casebook Forum three times, Jonathan Hainsworth, will appear. Sure enough, on 24th October 2025, during a discussion about Macnaghten's 1894 memorandum, and the suspect Thomas Cutubush, Hainsworth, via the medium of his loyal backscratching postmaster, Mad Mike "Howler" Hawley, emerged to treat us, off topic, to some more of his famous delusional, and indeed demented, magical thin

I've done a bit of housekeeping on New Year's Eve and archived some posts which have served their purpose. I may archive some more in...

Having said in a previous blog past that there was no way I was going to buy Michael Hawley's latest book, The Ripper Haunts and Jack the...

Diary Defending is now officially dead. It was killed, ironically enough, by diary defender loon Thomas Mitchell who posted some...

Longstanding members of this website (from last month) may remember the highly popular Diary Defender Song. Well that was only partially...

It's time to explode the myth that Mike Barrett was so stunned by the fact of storage heaters having been installed in Paul Dodd's house...

I'm sure you remember my blog post Those Pesky Horizon Defenders , Well, the December 2019 judgment of Mr Justice Fraser in the Horizon IT case (link here ) can help us expose another part of the Battlecrease scam, known as the Statistics scam. For the benefit of the diary defender loon who posted in the Comments section of Numbers are hard ": Really strange comment from you there David regarding maths and statistics. They are not even remotely the same field of numeracy. Wh

So we've all now seen the Battlecrease scam, and we've seen that the exposure of this scam in my Battlecrease Scam blog post upset the...

I've dealt previously with diary defender scams in Diary Defender Scams Exposed! but here's another one that needs exposing. RJ Palmer...

Five weeks after my Let's Talk About the Receipt post, not a single diary or watch defender wants to talk about Albert Johnson's receipt...

We've got her, ladies and gentlemen. Looking in the archives, I found the Chief Diary Defender, Caroline Anne Morris-Brown, saying in...

Some people say that Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is stupid. This is disproved by the suggestions the Wix AI tool has given me for...

In the third paragraph of the diary, we find the diarist, who is supposed to be writing in 1888, describing Dr Hopper "as a bumbling buffoon" . Later, while speaking of his habit of taking strong medicine, he writes that his wife "has informed the bumbling buffoon", meaning Dr Hopper. A poster on Casebook called "The Baron" was the first to point out in August 2020 that "bumbling buffoon" is a twentieth century expression. This is due to the word "bumbling" not being a gen

I regard the search for historical examples of "one off" as ongoing and always like to refresh it when I have the opportunity. Recently I've been conducting searches on archive.org . It's not an easy database to search because so many journals are dated by the date of their first issue, rather than their actual publication date, rather like the 1975 issue of the British Bee Journal is dated 1882 on Google Books. This makes it seem like a lot of results are older than they r

Trevor Marriott recently posted on JTR Forums to say that, "Tumblety is a poor suspect as there is strong evidence to suggest that on the...

Diary Defenders love yapping on about the absence of a receipt for the photograph album, so you'd think that we'd have at least one image...

Watching the questioning in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry recently, I wondered if Lead Counsel to the inquiry, Jason Beer KC, has a...

If you were thinking that the original diary defender was Shirley Harrison, you'd be wrong. It was, of course, none other than Michael...