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Month: October 2020

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Crossword No. 141

24th October 2020 Going Postal 4126 Comments

First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a GP mug. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner. 140 – Bluepeter. Answers with next week’s [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1962

23rd October 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3200 Comments

Featured Album: The Beach Boys – Surfin Safari Before I start with the article, I would like to raise a concern.  Over the last few weeks there have been several comments about how bad some [more…]

20th Century

A Barren Shore, Part Two

23rd October 2020 Going Postal 2241 Comments

An even greater slab of armour plate than the one we had stumbled across decades before, stood upright blankly showing its wounds, punched through and scored by shot, rusty red, the memorial to those Finns [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

23rd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 1690 Comments

Question Time 22th October 2020 Panel: Nicky Morgan (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Anne Longfield (Children’s Commissioner) Stephen Fitzpatrick (Businessman) Joseph Stiglitz (Ecconomist) Venue: Sedgefield Question Time continues to struggle to find its bearings in black [more…]

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Going Postal with Question Time

22nd October 2020 Going Postal 2209 Comments

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of the same old faces, same old propaganda. On the panel are: Nicky Morgan, former secretary of state for Education and former culture secretary, [more…]

Arts

The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part One

22nd October 2020 Joe Slater 3579 Comments

Has there ever been a stranger accession to power in a western democracy recently than that of Emmanuel Macron? In 2014, he rose from nowhere to Minister of the Economy and then in 2017 was [more…]

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US election: Red flags for investors, part 1

22nd October 2020 Going Postal 2458 Comments

The implications of the upcoming US election are obviously very important not just for American citizens, investors and ordinary savers, but for the rest of the world too. Economic, fiscal and monetary developments and trends [more…]

Arts

Art in Cocklecarrot (Not Cocklecroft) Towers, Part Six

21st October 2020 Going Postal 3343 Comments

“Come and get me, copper!” East End saying Dark doings in murky waters open Part 6. Specifically- The attempted theft of dozens of priceless artworks from under my very nose! I regret to advise Mrs [more…]

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SOS

21st October 2020 Going Postal 3639 Comments

It’s been nearly two months since the alarm was raised. “Migrant overboard in English Channel.” That was the night of August 18th and it wasn’t long before the headline writers got to work, blaming the [more…]

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