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Month: June 2023

Arts

G2E3 – Origins of the Motown – The Early Days Part 2

30th June 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2847 Comments

Welcome pop pickers to episode 3 of Genre 2, Glam Rock. This week back to Glam Rock.  Thank you to Wiki and Top of the Pops. Courtesy of Wiki: Glam rock emerged from the English psychedelic and [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

30th June 2023 Always Worth Saying 3353 Comments

Question Time 29th June 2023 The Panel: Helen Whately (Conservative) Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Chef and Campaigner) Dia Chakravarty (The Telegraph) Mhairi Black (SNP) Venue: Exeter Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall was born in Hampstead, [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Five, Chapter Eighteen

29th June 2023 Going Postal 2700 Comments

It was a very happy Jinnie who drove her Lexus back to Potters Bar to drop off Alberto and Guido. As she drove, the directors chatted. Jinnie asked if both the others were happy how [more…]

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Shake A Spear(e)

29th June 2023 Going Postal 2463 Comments

William Shakespeare devised new words and countless plot tropes that still appear in everyday life. Famous quotes from his plays are easily recognisable; phrases like “To be or not to be,” “wherefore art thou, Romeo,” [more…]

Biography

Deborah, Part I

28th June 2023 William 2645 Comments

Oliver Harding is expecting a business-as-usual day at Bawlsinyore Court, a rather smart retirement housing scheme in a sleepy corner of Cambridgeshire where he’s the resident manager. Today the window cleaners will be here and [more…]

20th Century

African Regime Gone Bad: The Result

28th June 2023 Going Postal 2386 Comments

Rwanda’s “story” had the international community so thoroughly by the emotional and intellectual throat, it could not now, wrest free. Some elements of the stranglehold were self-serving. Rwanda’s most prize 21st-century export was not coffee [more…]

Eating

Elementary, my dear Watson – Ca Calcium

27th June 2023 SharpieType301 2755 Comments

As time goes past on our elementary adventures, I hope to ensure that at least one element is included from each of the eighteen Groups of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the [more…]

Economics

NET ZERO scores ZERO

27th June 2023 Going Postal 2914 Comments

Briefing 47, The Global Warming Policy Foundation. The Brink of Darkness: Britain’s fragile power grid by John Constable. I was prompted to reread the above yesterday by two things, one the receipt of a combined [more…]

20th Century

Adventure in New Guinea, Part Two

26th June 2023 Going Postal 2468 Comments

In 1969, my uncle, John Alldridge visited New Guinea to “observe the attempt to weld a primitive people to a modern society”. This is the second of his reports for the Vancouver Sun. – Jerry [more…]

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