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Month: April 2020

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

30th April 2020 Going Postal 3955 Comments

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London with pre-recorded questions from Leeds and questions and comments from social media. On the panel are: Grant Shapps [more…]

Arts

One Night in Dezhou

30th April 2020 Joe Slater 2732 Comments

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. Here, the journey resumes with an unintended stopover in the crappy end of Dezhou, an obscure industrial [more…]

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The Silver Pit

29th April 2020 Going Postal 3577 Comments

Some of you may remember that some time ago I wrote an article about my family tree research and how I’d discovered many interesting things about my family history. One thing I learned was that [more…]

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Britain under lockdown

29th April 2020 Going Postal 5146 Comments

In the space of a few weeks, the Overton window has been moved so far to the left, it has shattered. Whereas before teh virus, the left were only talking about refusing treatment to smokers and [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Fifty-Nine

28th April 2020 Going Postal 3418 Comments

What we are going to do, is you are going to telephone the BBC. Then we are all going to head to the BBC studios and get you onto the television. You’re going to be [more…]

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A bird in a gilded cage

28th April 2020 Godfrey Bloom 5209 Comments

My lockdown is idyllic, I am one of the most fortunate people in England at the moment. We have a smallholding in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close to the river Derwent which is the border between [more…]

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Bottoms Up!

27th April 2020 SharpieType301 3599 Comments

To these gloomy pandemic-filled days, I’d like to bring a little cheer. For months I have, of course, not ‘read the comments’ posted by this assortment of scoundrel and rapscallion Fraterculae. Without having viewed such [more…]

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We have all become experts

27th April 2020 Emile Woolf 2576 Comments

Or have we? In the course of more than four weeks of self/family isolation we have all encountered mountains of speculation on the sources of Covid-19; how it spreads; estimates of its final tally of [more…]

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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 2621 Comments

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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