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Month: March 2023

Democracy

SNP Leadership Runners And Riders

13th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 2509 Comments

If Westminster politics is show business for ugly people then the Holyrood equivalent is a pantomime for the deformed and demented. Amidst a blizzard of criticism for putting rapists in women’s jails and the inability [more…]

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Is The Pendulum Swinging Back To Sanity?

13th March 2023 Emile Woolf 3125 Comments

I detect signs of a nascent backlash. There seems to be a realistic hope that people are waking up to the reality of the prevailing insanity inflicted on them by officialdom in all its guises. [more…]

20th Century

This Is My England, 1950 – Part Three

12th March 2023 Going Postal 2762 Comments

I have had a particularly soft spot in my heart for Nottingham ever since an evening in June, 1940. There were about a thousand of us, dribs and drabs of a British Expeditionary Force, scooped [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Seventy-Eight

12th March 2023 Going Postal 3219 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, yet another Monday morning and a fun week in Westminster looks to be ahead. It’s bright and sunny this morning but still chilly, when is it going to be warm enough [more…]

Arts

The View From Sunnegga

11th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 2459 Comments

It’s difficult to tell exactly where we are in old Zermatt, pictured below during my grandparent’s 1950s road trip. These days the town is short of public squares given what has to be squeezed onto [more…]

Arts

This Sporting Life – Chapter 2

11th March 2023 Going Postal 3111 Comments

Introduction Currently there are sixty racecourses spread across the United Kingdom and thus far I’ve visited around a third of them. Of the total, more than half cater for the faster type of horses bred [more…]

20th Century

G5E1 – Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Beginning

10th March 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2831 Comments

Welcome pop pickers to an ambitious series of articles covering 6 genres, each with 6 episodes. To give a bit of variation, the next episode of each genre will be published 6 weeks after the [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

10th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 2996 Comments

Question Time 9th March 2023 The Panel: Robert Jenrick (Conservative) Sarah Jones (Labour) Ken Clarke (Former Home Secretary) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist) Richard Madeley (Broadcaster) Venue: London Hereditary journalist Richard Madeley was born in Romford, Essex [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Two

9th March 2023 Going Postal 2748 Comments

The day after Jinnie’s meeting with ‘C’ things started moving. In mid-morning Belinda arrived for a site visit to plan the garden office. Instead of bringing Andrew with her she was accompanied by Brain, who [more…]

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