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I'll be slowly adding historic articles to the tab above but new articles will be in the form of blog posts (as that seems to be how it's done these days). As far as I can tell, anyone can subscribe to be notified of any new blog posts, and that might the way forward to avoid having to continually check back. I'll aim to publish new blog posts on a regular basis. Comments are also possible in response to the blog posts. At the moment, you don't need to be a member to comment. In the meantime check the Blog section for a new existing feature, intended to be constantly updated, called 'Ask Orsam....about the diary'. That's it for the moment, I'm still trying to understand how this site actually works. If you find out, let me know.
News Update: 31 Aug 2023
A new blog post has been added (just a quickie) entitled 'Reflections on the Suckered! Trilogy' and the three articles in that very trilogy have been re-uploaded to this new site under the 'Historic Articles' tab. If you haven't read them for a long time, I would say they are worth a re-read. If you've never read them before, they are a must read.
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Lord Orsam has also updated his Ask Orsam....about the diary blog feature with some brand new answers (in blue font) to some questions arising out of an online posting earlier today. Lord Orsam does love to receive and respond to customer feedback! Some yet further Q&A (in yellow font) arise out of another online posting this afternoon by the same person. And wow, he's been remarkably busy this evening, for I see yet another answer added in cream colour.
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News Update: 1 Sept 2023
Lord Orsam answers some additional diary related questions today in Ask Orsam, added in white font today.
News Update: 3 Sept 2023
The four articles in the "Suckered! Plus" Quadrilogy have now been uploaded to the site together with an accompanying short blog post about them.
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Lord Orsam has also generously answered some more questions today in the Ask Orsam...about the diary blog.
News Update: 4 Sept 2023
The unstoppable Lord Orsam has kindly agreed to answer some more questions in the Ask Orsam...about the diary blog, this time in green font.
News Update: 5 Sept 2023
It's purple font today in the 'Ask Orsam...about the diary' blog. Enjoy Lord Orsam's latest answers.
News Update: 6 Sept 2023
We're in a pale blue sort of font today as Lord Orsam answers some more questions in the 'Ask Orsam...' blog.
News Update: 8 Sept 2023
More new Q&A added in the 'Ask Orsam....about Lechmere/Cross' blog here in yellow font. Now with further additions in purple.
News Update: 9 Sept 2023
We are back in the 'Ask Orsam...about the diary' blog today with some more diary discussion with Lord Orsam.
News Update: 12 Sept 2023
New blog post added: Name Issue: Bonus Case Study!
News Update: 13 Sept 2023
By special request, Lord Orsam has added a new blog post: Electricians' Special. I'm not entirely sure about the apostrophe in the title but better to be safe than sorry.
News Update: 15 Sept 2023
Lord Orsam has added a new blog post: The Long Game
News Update: 18 Sept 2023
Lord Orsam has added a new blog post: The Missing Newspapers
News Update: 21 Sept 2023
Lord Orsam has added a new blog post: The Game of the Name
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Lord Orsam has also dealt with a new diary question (in yellow font) in Ask Orsam...about the diary
News Update: 30 Sept 2023
Lord Orsam has added two new blog posts: A Beautiful Mind: Jonathan Hainsworth and the Power of Imagination and The Lodger and the Landlady.
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He has also answered some more questions (in white font) in Ask Orsam...About Lechmere/Cross.
News Update: 6 Oct 2023
In a different type of post than normal, Lord Orsam has uploaded a few interesting historical photographs in Hanbury Street: 1911
News Update: 10 Oct 2023
To celebrate the restoration of Lord Orsam's A Man in a Pub article in the 'Historic Articles' section, Lord Orsam has written a new blog post, That Man in a Pub.
News Update: 15 Oct 2023
A new diary-related blog post is published today: Mikes' Motive dealing with why Mike confessed in June 1994.
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The blog post Ask Orsam...about the diary has also been updated, this time back to white font.
News Update: 23 Oct 2023
Another new diary-related blog post is published today on a familiar topic: That Little Red Diary.
News Update: 2 Nov 2023
A musical interlude from his Lordship in A49301.
News Update: 7 Nov 2023
Lord Orsam shares some thoughts about another serial killer in Along the Green River.
News Update: 16 Nov 2023
Catch up with Lord Orsam's thoughts about what he's been reading on the boards for the past ten days in Lord Orsam's Diary.
News Upate: 24 Nov 2023
Following the incredible popularity of Lord Orsam's diary, his Lordship now presents Lord Orsam's Diary PART 2.
News Update: 30 Nov 2023
Do dead men tell tales? Dead mean do tell tales, at least according to Lord Orsam in his latest blog post: Dead Men Do Tell Tales.
News Update: 1 Dec 2023
Can seeing too many colours make you blind? Lord Orsam tries to find out in Colour Blindness.
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News Update: 2 Dec 2023
Wow! A third blog post in three days as Lord Orsam considers The Secret Ripper Diary Extracts.
News Update: 4 Dec 2023
Does Lord Orsam have any views about Simon Wood's 2023 book Secret History? Yes, he does. Find out what they are in Mistaken History and its sister article WOOD AND ORSAM.
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Accompanying the publication of these blog posts is a massive release of re-uploaded historic articles relating to Wood and conspiracy theories in general. See the historic articles page for the full list.
News Update: 11 Dec 2023
An exciting Monday morning as Lord Orsam delivers two new blog posts: The Big Con and Thin Skinnered.
News Update: 15 Dec 2023
It's a triple event from Lord Orsam today as he releases three new blog posts: An Unexpected Visitation, Rampant Misinformation and A Matter of Time.
News Update: 21 Dec 2023
To celebrate the re-upload of Breaking Point and Crossing The Line Lord Orsam has made what is expected to be his last blog post of the year with After the Breaking Point.
News Update: 2 Jan 2024
In celebration of the Kindle version of The Temperature of Death now being available to buy on Amazon.com and on Amazon.co.uk as well as all other Amazon sites around the world, Lord Orsam has made one of the appendices of the book freely available on his blog post Temperature of Death.
Additionally, Lord Orsam has added updates to both A Matter of Time and After the Breaking Point.
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As you can see, we also have a new colour scheme for 2024, possibly temporary. I'll go back to the black background with white font if people tell me they prefer it.
News Update: 9 Jan 2024
Lord Orsam's thoughts about the diary transcripts prepared by Mike and Anne Barrett in April 1992 are set out in The Finest Transcript.
News Update: 16 Jan 2024
Lord Orsam's initial thoughts about the Gray/Barrett tape recordings from 1994-6 are set out in Gray Days.
News Update: 17 Jan 2024
Anyone interested in Lord Orsam's article Anderson and the World will find a short update at the end based on some new information received.
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Lord Orsam has also written an unplanned emergency blog post, responding to a statement by Keith Skinner, in Skinner Talks Red Diary.
News Update: 18 Jan 2024
Yet another unplanned emergency blog post responding to a statement by Keith Skinner in Skinner Talks Transcript.
News Update: 25 Jan 2024
Lord Orsam's further thoughts about the Gray/Barrett tape recordings from 1994-6 are set out in More Gray Days.
News Update: 30 Jan 2024
To accompany the re-birth of Lord Orsam's historic articles One Off Article and Bumbling About, a new blog post entitled The Incontrovertible Truth.
News Update: 8 Feb 2024
Lord Orsam turns his attention to Druitt related matters in The Hainsworth Chronicles.
News Update: 13 Feb 2024
As diary defenders seem to like to play hypothetical games, Lord Orsam joins in with his latest blog post Hypothetical.
News Update: 22 Feb 2024
In his role as Scambuster of the Realm, Lord Orsam exposes some recent diary defender scams in Diary Defender Scams Exposed!
News Update: 26 Feb 2024
A short corrective post by Lord Orsam, to a point relating to one of the diary scams, in History of Sphere.
News Update: 27 Feb 2024
There are plenty of other fake diaries to discuss, and Lord Orsam discusses one of them in That Other Fake Diary.
News Update: 28 Feb 2024
Lord Orsam has added an update to his History of Sphere.
News Update: 7 Mar 2024
Lord Orsam continues to go around the sphere in Around the Sphere.
News Update: 12 Mar 2024
Lord Orsam expresses his concerns about crucial evidence which continues to be withheld and suppressed, in The Missing Tapes.
News Update: 21 Mar 2024
To enjoy the story of how the assistant to the chief diary defender got his comeuppance in humiliating fashion, don't miss Lord Orsam's latest blog article, The Schooling of Thomas Mitchell.
News Update: 26 Mar 2024
The missing tapes scandal deepens, as discussed by a frankly outraged Lord Orsam in Fifty Fifty.
News Update: 29 Mar 2024
In response to a reply on Casebook by Tom Mitchell to his Fifty Fifty blog post, Lord Orsam has updated that post (both in the main text to which some new information has been added and with a full response at the foot of it).
News Update: 1 April 2024
The first ever online edition of The Orsam Chronicle is now available.
News Update: 4 April 2024
Lord Orsam expresses some thoughts about the role of Inspector Abberline in A Funny Little Man.
News Update: 5 April 2024
Lord Orsam looks at the diary's provenance Through Anne's Eyes.
News Update: 8 April 2024
It may not be widely known but the artificial "trip over" controversy actually started in the Comments section on this website a few months ago, and Lord Orsam explains it all for the bemused in Tripping Up Over The Diary.
News Update: 9 April 2024
Lord Orsam asks the question on everyone's lips: Is Simon Wood a late 20th Century Fictional Construct?
News Update: 18 April 2024
Today Lord Orsam wants to talk about A Strange Game of Chess.
News Update: 19 April 2024
It's Owl Stretching Time with Lord Orsam.
News Update: 22 April 2024
Lord Orsam discusses the latest in diary defender denial in Branding Hartley.
News Update: 23 April 2024
Lord Orsam takes us back to Diary Day One.
News Update: 2 May 2024
For some diary defenders numbers are hard, as Lord Orsam explains in Numbers are hard.
News Update: 3 May 2024
Let's head over now to Lord Orsam in Lord Orsam's Dictionary Corner.
News Update: 6 May 2024
Lord Orsam shares the contents of a mysterious diary found under his floorboards in Diary of a Diary Defender.
News Update: 7 May 2024
Surely Lord Orsam isn't going back over that "trip over" nonsense is he? I'm afraid so, in Let's Trip Over It Again.
News Update: 8 May 2024
Let's talk about the watch today with Lord Orsam in Hartley's Egg.
News Update: 16 May 2024
How did we get here? How the f*** did we get here? No, seriously, how the f***ing f*** did we get here? By pure coincidence, this is the very question Lord Orsam asks, without the swearing, in his latest blog post How Did We Get Here?
News Update: 21 May 2024
You want an introduction to diary defending? No problem, Lord Orsam has you covered in Just Fancy That! An Introduction to Diary Defending.
News Update: 25 May 2024
A recent online exchanges causes Lord Orsam to wish to discuss a matter of logic in A Matter of Logic.
News Update: 30 May 2024
If you've ever asked yourself "What, I wonder, does Lord Orsam think the top 40 diary defender fails are?" you can now find out in Lord Orsam's Top 40 Diary Defender Fails.
News Update: 4 June 2024
Who was the original diary defender? Find out in The Original Diary Defender.
News Update: 13 June 2024
It turns out that it's not only Diary Defenders causing havoc in society but Horizon Defenders too, as Lord Orsam explains in Those Pesky Horizon Defenders.
News Update: 18 June 2024
Those diary defenders just love talking about receipts, and about the watch too, so it's kind of odd that they never ever, not once, talk about the receipt for the watch. Lord Orsam identifies the issue in Let's Talk About the Receipt.
News Update 21 June 2024
Given the amount of confusion in the minds of certain Ripperologists regarding the prosecution of Francis Tumblety, including those who have published books and articles on the subject, Lord Orsam now graciously makes available Tumblety For Dummies.
News Update: 27 June 2024
There can be no more important issue in the Maybrick Diary World than the issue of "one off instance", and Lord Orsam has refreshed his research into the origins of the expression as set out in his new A One Off Bonus Post.
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He has also updated his One Off Article to include the new information.
News Update: 2 July 2024
The inclusion by the forger of "one off instance" in the diary proves the forgery but "bumbling buffoon" also tells us that the diary is a modern work as Lord Orsam explains in Let's Go Bumbling.
News Update: 11 July 2024
Lord Orsam ventures into the magical world of artificial intelligence in Experiments in AI.
News Update: 20 July 2024
Lord Orsam has discovered some serious hypocrisy which he writes about in his A Study in Hypocrisy.
News Update: 25 July 2024
An update from Lord Orsam on the still suspiciously missing receipt and the problems with the watch in It's All On Murphy.
News Update: 1 Aug 2024
Another diary defender scam is dissected by Lord Orsam in The Battlecrease Scam.
News Update: 8 Aug 2024
Another element of the Battlecrease Scan is exposed by Lord Orsam in The Brown Paper Scam.
News Update: 13 Aug 2024
Another week, another diary defender scam exposed as Lord Orsam exposes The Statistics Scam.
News Update: 22 Aug 2024
Did Mike Barrett really stagger backwards in shock when he heard that storage heaters had been installed in Battlecrease during the late 1980s? Lord Orsam investigates in A Staggering Myth.
News Update: 27 Aug 2024
What the world has been waiting for, an updated version of Lord Orsam's Diary Defender song in The Diary Defender song.
News Update: 10 Sept 2024
Lord Orsam explains why diary defending is now dead in Final Nail in the Coffin.
News Update: 8 Oct 2024
With diary defending now being stone cold dead, leaving nothing to write about in respect of the diary, Lord Orsam turns his attention to a recent Ripperologist review of a book about Francis Tumblety by Michael L. Hawley, and the book itself, in The Howlers of Hawley.
News Update: 5 Nov 2024
An important statement by Lord Orsam here.
News Update: 13 Nov 2024
Lord Orsam is forced out of his fictional retirement to post a response to the lies being told about him on an online discussion board in Lies on JTR Forums.