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Month: January 2024

Health

Autophagy

13th January 2024 Going Postal 2531 Comments

First, a few definitions. Amino Acid: Amino acids are organic compounds that contain amine (a derivative of Ammonia) and carboxyl functional groups (a double-bonded carbon atom linked to an oxygen group and a hydroxyl group [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: A Postcard From 1976

12th January 2024 Going Postal 2482 Comments

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

12th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 2712 Comments

Question Time 11th January 2024 The Panel: Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Anand Menon (Professor of Politics) Lord Stuart Rose (Chairman of ASDA) Venue: Oxford Lord Stuart Rose, not his real name, Stuart Alan [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Twelve

11th January 2024 Going Postal 2328 Comments

Jinnie desperately wanted to talk to Brooke about roast beef rolls, but as it was just coming up to half past three, it would be eight thirty back home and it was unfair to phone [more…]

Health

Euthanasia

11th January 2024 Going Postal 2434 Comments

In 1983, Neil Kinnock gave a speech in which he warned: If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not [more…]

20th Century

Postcard From Kaunas

10th January 2024 Novak and Goode 2170 Comments

As 2nd cities go Kaunas, seems at least, at first glance, to be a pretty unprepossessing sort of place regardless of whether you arrive by air, road or rail. Arriving by train reveals an industrial [more…]

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Kenya at 60: Field notes from the neo-colony

10th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 2590 Comments

Despite the veneer of progress, what does a historical critique of East Africa’s capitalist beacon reveal? The linked photograph shows the spectrum of nationalist politics at independence: (from left) Achieng Oneko, who introduced Kenyatta to [more…]

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A View (Round The Corner) From The Greenhouse; Happy New Year……Innit?

9th January 2024 Colin Cross 1923 Comments

Welcome to 2024 Postaliers. A new year, undoubtedly filled to the brim with the same old bollix. At least, so long as I’m able to maintain my concentration, you’ll have my fortnightly diary to take [more…]

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Means of Communication and Suppression

9th January 2024 Going Postal 2637 Comments

The seed of this article came from this site, I was like many other GPers a poster on GF until banned, whether SB knew what he was creating I don’t know but he is to [more…]

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