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Month: November 2020

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 2000 Comments

Question Time 26th November 2020 Panel: Nadim Zahawi (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Labour) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Claire Fox (Member of the House of Lords) Tanni-Grey Thompson (Paralympian) Venue: Swansea Your humble author is forced to [more…]

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

26th November 2020 Going Postal 1380 Comments

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Swansea. Same old faces, same tired programming. On the panel are: Nadhim Zahawi, Vaughan Gething, Adam Price, Claire Fox and [more…]

Fiction

Galta’s Sculptor’s Studio

26th November 2020 Going Postal 4511 Comments

Galta was about to pour her first glass of wine of the day -it was one o’clock and, these days, her lunch tended to come in liquid form- when she noticed a young man peering [more…]

20th Century

JFK Behind the Curtain, Part 2

26th November 2020 Going Postal 3356 Comments

Jack & Bobby Kennedy were even tougher than their most ardent supporters could imagine. They had seemingly coasted through nearly three years of Presidency with the attendant domestic & foreign crises, but in reality they [more…]

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Fiction

Lords and Ladies, Part Two

25th November 2020 DH 3641 Comments

Fifteen of them stood in a line in the muddy light of the drawing room. Fifteen desolate specimens of humanity clad in grimy, beige sweatshirts and stained jogging bottoms. Fifteen of them with their hands [more…]

America

Film review: Sunset Boulevard

25th November 2020 Going Postal 2715 Comments

Billy Wilder was born in Austria in 1906 , but became a screenwriter in the late 1920s when living in Berlin. Appalled & concerned about the rise of the Nazi Party, he moved to Paris [more…]

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Money, Corruption and Power: The Stolen Elections of Lyndon Johnson – Part 1

25th November 2020 The Black Swan 2420 Comments

  “I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it, and how to use it.” – Lyndon Johnson [The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Volume 3: Master [more…]

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Arts

Blotto or Blotter?

24th November 2020 Going Postal 2922 Comments

Since the Spring of 2020, we’ve all had to forego certain things that were dearer to us than others. I particularly miss live debates and political rallies. The last event I attended was the Brexit [more…]

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Arts

Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 1

24th November 2020 Going Postal 2431 Comments

Background For some of you, the title of this piece has probably resurrected memories of certain quality films from the 1970’s. Here, however, I have used the word “confessions” mainly for alliterative purposes. Not that [more…]

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