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Month: March 2024

Arts

Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: A Postcard From 1976 Pt.2

22nd March 2024 Going Postal 2804 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. Tonight, [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

22nd March 2024 Always Worth Saying 2573 Comments

Question Time 21st March 2024 The Panel: Rachel Maclean (Conservative) Sarah Jones (Labour) Tim Farron (LibDems) Philippa Gregory (Author) Rod Liddle (Journalist) Venue: Middlesborough Rod Liddle is one of those embarrassing London upper-middle-class Metropolitan media [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Two

21st March 2024 Going Postal 2078 Comments

Jinnie woke and looked at her travel clock. It was 07:15 and she could hear the twins happily chatting in their bedroom. She got out of bed and went to say Happy Christmas to them. [more…]

History

Jesmond Dene: The Crown Jewel of Newcastle’s parks

21st March 2024 Going Postal 2331 Comments

Jesmond Dene is a unique haven of peace and tranquillity for the people of Newcastle. It is a narrow wooded valley that follows the river Ouseburn between South Gosforth and Jesmond Vale, providing an important [more…]

America

The American-Somalian Base Deal Arguably Has Ulterior Motives

20th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 4101 Comments

The US decided to expand its military influence in Somalia on the pretext of anti-terrorist base-building in order to indirectly pressure Ethiopia after last month’s Memorandum of Understanding with Somaliland in a “plausibly deniable” way. [more…]

Diary

A View From The Greenhouse; Turned Out Nice Again…..Innit?

19th March 2024 Colin Cross 2431 Comments

On more than one occasion over recent years I’ve nursed (if that’s the right word) the odd bird back to health following collisions with the greenhouse. They’re either rushing to get at the strawberries, or [more…]

20th Century

Crisis Journey, 1947 – Part Three

19th March 2024 Going Postal 2367 Comments

“The record of what one man saw and heard and felt on a journey through Britain in October 1947, by John Alldridge” Uncle John’s record of his trip round Britain, to assess the extent to [more…]

Literature

Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson

18th March 2024 Going Postal 2106 Comments

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and [more…]

Politics

‘Wake up!’ – the myth of sleeping populism

18th March 2024 Going Postal 2327 Comments

Introduction We often see an idea being expressed by those on the right that the people will eventually ‘wake up’. Or, we are told that there are clear signs that people are already ‘waking up’ [more…]

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