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Month: February 2024

Authoritarianism

The World’s Coolest Dictator

10th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 1938 Comments

Puffins arriving at San Salvador’s Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport crouching down to avoid the gunfire and running through the terminal building with their case over their head to deflect shattering glass may be [more…]

Literature

I’m in service at the Big House

10th February 2024 Going Postal 2772 Comments

I’m in service at the Big House Left school when just fourteen Started as a scullery maid – Left mam -my crowded home Timid, shy, first time away, Prayed Cook would not be mean. My [more…]

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Happy Birthday To A Musical Titan

9th February 2024 Going Postal 2568 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

9th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 3088 Comments

Question Time 8th February 2024 The Panel: James Daly (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat) Paddy McGuinness (Presenter and Actor) Inaya Folarin Iman (Writer and Broadcaster) Venue: Nottingham Wes Streeting is the Labour [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Sixteen

8th February 2024 Going Postal 2530 Comments

Jinnie settled into the First Class compartment on the Thameslink train from Hadley Wood to Moorgate. It was just like the old days when she commuted into the Cross, but she now could afford to [more…]

Authoritarianism

I want my free stuff

8th February 2024 Rookwood 2686 Comments

Everywhere you go, regardless of media platform, you hear this sad and deluded refrain – “To compete, xxx must be sustainable”. This political sound-bite, which is in effect a dog-whistle for “Make the listener feel [more…]

Eating

Caribbean Christmas 2023/24, Part Four

7th February 2024 Going Postal 2480 Comments

Day 10 – 31st December – New Year’s Eve and it’s still Antigua I didn’t expect to be in beautiful Antigua again today, but I can think of worse places to be. It’s another lovely [more…]

20th Century

Looking Back at the SAPs Processes of the Early 1990s

7th February 2024 Going Postal 2944 Comments

The Structural Adjustment Programmes of the early 1990s left ordinary Kenyans reeling under extreme economic hardship. Three decades later, SAPs are back, the Bretton Woods methods of inflicting economic pain on Kenyans unchanged. 18 January, [more…]

Diary

A View From (Just By) The Greenhouse; Borders, Who Needs Em’?

6th February 2024 Colin Cross 2229 Comments

The weather’s taken something of a turn for the better, Daves’ hand is healing up nicely, if you ignore the numb thumb and my back (sadly the saga continues) is just about capable of allowing [more…]

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