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Month: April 2024

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

26th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 2293 Comments

Question Time 24th April 2024 The Panel: Chris Philp (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Munira Wilson (LibDem) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Charles Moore (Columnist) Venue: Tottenham Wesley Paul William Streeting appears on QT and other broadcast [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story- Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Seven

25th April 2024 Going Postal 1877 Comments

Brooke led Patricia onto the northbound Victoria line platform at Brixton. Patricia looked around her in amazement, she had used escalators at airports and big stores but never before to descend below ground. She had [more…]

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The Eternal Fireman

25th April 2024 Going Postal 2171 Comments

Years ago, the late Sir Robin Day scored such a direct hit on Mrs Thatcher’s Defence Secretary, John Nott, that he threw away his microphone and stormed off the set in mid interview after Sir [more…]

20th Century

The Death Railway, Part Four

24th April 2024 Going Postal 2210 Comments

Step forward to the present day; SWMBO and I have been visiting Thailand for many years and decided it was time to head out to the Death Railway as Grandad Humbug had been in Burma [more…]

21st Century

Puntland’s Refusal

24th April 2024 Going Postal 2367 Comments

We will not close Ethiopia’s consulate in Garowe, Puntland roars back In a tough-worded statement, Puntland maintained its desire to continue collaborating with Ethiopia on social-economic front. The Federal Government of Somalia’s military toothlessness is [more…]

Politics

Lycra clad Bonus Holes

23rd April 2024 well_chuffed 2253 Comments

We must all be painfully aware of the lycra clad Bonus Holes who ride about on our roads. There is an absolutely massive one who has a weekday morning show on Channel 5. One of [more…]

20th Century

In The Steps of The First Army, Part Four

23rd April 2024 Going Postal 2407 Comments

“In the fourth of his articles John Alldridge writes of Longstop Hill as it is today — “a totally unremarkable hill” — and recalls the fighting which has made its name a legend.” – Manchester [more…]

21st Century

A New Generalplan Ost

22nd April 2024 Novak and Goode 2031 Comments

“What are you doing next week?” asked the voice on the other end of the phone, “Nothing that I cannot move or delay,” I replied; recognising the voice as Linas, a Lithuanian with whom I [more…]

Economics

Let’s stop kidding ourselves

22nd April 2024 Emile Woolf 2637 Comments

Columnists write glibly about the “cost-of-living crisis” as if it were an affliction visited upon our unsuspecting community and that, as usual, it is the duty of government to cure it. The fact that the [more…]

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