January 2025 – Page 2

A History of Pop Music – 1970

17th January 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th January 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 16th January 2025 The Panel: Chris Bryant (Labour) Nadine Dorries (Conservative) Calum Miller (Liberal Democrat) Ayesha Hazarika (Broadcaster) Liam Halligan (Economist & Journalist) Venue: Northampton Sir Christopher John Bryant is the Labour MP [more…]

Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven – Chapter Twenty-Nine

16th January 2025 Going Postal 0

Jinnie was surprised when, just after lunch, Brian arrived at Maple House. He put his head around her door and said, “Hi, that was an interesting morning. I don’t envy you having to work with [more…]

Surrey Unitary Authority

16th January 2025 well_chuffed 0

Plans are afoot to change Surrey County Council into a Unitary Authority. What this means is merging the 11 District Councils into the County Council . This should result in efficiencies and savings. Oh my [more…]

Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Six

15th January 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 5, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about being strafed by the American Airforce, visiting the theatre in Tunis and staying at the home of an [more…]

Renditioning Dissidents

15th January 2025 Going Postal 0

28 December 2024 While Kenyan authorities deny their involvement in renditioning Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, a blood-stained history of collaboration in Western-backed renditions speaks dubiously for itself. Above: Ugandan opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye [more…]