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Month: October 2020

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1961

16th October 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3145 Comments

Featured Album: Runaway with Del Shannon This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the [more…]

20th Century

A Barren Shore, Part One

16th October 2020 Going Postal 2649 Comments

This is a personal memoir of several visits to the far north and going realisation of what had always been before my eyes, unseen and recognised. I am not an historian and certainly not of [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

16th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 1771 Comments

Question Time 15th October 2020 Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Seema Malhotra (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Miriam Brett (Economic Adviser) Ian wood (Businessman) Mark Walport (Scientist) Venue: Edinburgh Old friend of QT Review, Marcus Rashford, has [more…]

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

15th October 2020 Going Postal 995 Comments

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of Establishment drivel. On the panel are: Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Conservative; Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister, Labour; [more…]

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The Tank Museum, Bovington

15th October 2020 Swiss Bob 3370 Comments

Last week a GP crew visited The Tank Museum, Bovington. Even with the short notice given we were a group of eight two groups of four. It was a pleasure to meet some new puffins. [more…]

20th Century

The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945, Part Two

15th October 2020 Blown Periphery 2487 Comments

The City of Dresden in 1945 A rather strange myth had grown over the city of Dresden since the mid-1940s. That is was a benevolent municipality, untouched by the horrors of the war raging around, [more…]

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Art in Cocklecarrot (not Cocklecroft) Towers, Part Five

14th October 2020 Going Postal 3132 Comments

“A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword” Epigrams of Chang Ch’ao This part of the mould-breaking series [more…]

Joshua Dalton, Going Postal
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Lockdown, what’s it all about?

14th October 2020 Going Postal 3874 Comments

Coronavirus, Covid-19, the Wuhan wheezer, novel-Covid virus, China flu, the Xi JinPlague. Whatever title is preferred today, the global pandemic, which resembles nothing of the sort. Has grasped the world in fear, yet we all [more…]

Arts

Why Resident Evil 4 should not be remade

13th October 2020 Going Postal 3400 Comments

The last couple of years have seen quite a few old games remade for newer consoles and some of those facing reboots have been the Resident Evil series. Granted, I quite enjoyed the remakes of [more…]

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