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Month: May 2025

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Keith’s negotiating prowess

9th May 2025 well_chuffed 813 Comments

Keith’s expertise is certainly not in negotiating and especially not with the Donald. Despite shouting from the rooftops how wonderful our new trade deal with the US is (remember only possible because of Brexit) the [more…]

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Alway’s Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 1240 Comments

Question Time 8th May 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Graham Stuart (Conservative) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Calum Miller (LibDem) Jo Grady (University and College Union) Venue: Hull Well. One feels like the director of [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Ten

8th May 2025 Going Postal 2640 Comments

The next morning was Saturday and Izzy woke early with her head in a whirl; she could hardly believe everything that had happened in the past week, had it all been a dream? Feeling the [more…]

20th Century

On this day, 1945

8th May 2025 Going Postal 2427 Comments

On this day 80 years ago, the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, bringing an official end to World War II in Europe. We in the U.K. celebrate 8 May as Victory in Europe Day, [more…]

20th Century

In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 2490 Comments

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

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Reeeeee form

7th May 2025 well_chuffed 2314 Comments

After last week’s astounding success by Reform UK in the one Westminster by election and the local elections what can the future hold for Nigel Farage’s personal fiefdom. It is more than obvious that the [more…]

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West Country Rides, One

6th May 2025 Joe Slater 2747 Comments

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

19th Century

Book review: Custer’s Trials, by T.J. Stiles

6th May 2025 Going Postal 2282 Comments

Writing another biography of Custer (1839-1876) is, as Stiles says, a bit like walking round Grand Central Station trying to find a piece of floor someone hasn’t already stepped on. Such is the fascination with [more…]

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1001 ways to popular parties

5th May 2025 Going Postal 2137 Comments

When clearing my parents house a few years ago I went through the process of sorting things either to be taken to my mother’s new house, kept or sent to a charity shop or the [more…]

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