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Month: February 2026

Democracy

Gorton & Denton By-election: The Constituency

14th February 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we looked at the three serious candidates in the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election: representing the Greens, Labour and Reform UK. This time, we will look at the constituency. Part of it lies [more…]

Fiction

On Dangerous Ground, Chapter Six

14th February 2026 Going Postal 0

Day Six They didn’t see the Police Chief at breakfast time, while they were eating, his phone had gone several times, he ignored the calls, Sally said she wanted them to stay in the room [more…]

Arts

Valentine’s Day

13th February 2026 Going Postal 0

Valentine’s coming up. And it’s an absolute minefield for us blokes. There is only one very narrow path to tread and any deviation from said path can/will lead to us hurtling to the bottom of a social [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

13th February 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 12th February 2026 The Panel: Luke Pollard (Labour) Ben Spencer (Conservative) Ellie Chowns (Green Party) Nadine Dorries (Columnist and author) Venue: Bristol Last week on Question Time, we decided that Labour panellist Emma [more…]

Arts

Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Seventeen

12th February 2026 Going Postal 0

The day after Alicante was a sea day as the ship headed north towards France. The twins happily went off to the reef where they had made friends with nearly everyone there. The adults decided [more…]

20th Century

Labour’s bad boys – Part 5 Tom Driberg

12th February 2026 well_chuffed 0

So we go back to the 1960s and Tom Driberg. A notorious and flamboyant homosexual when such behaviour was likely to get you a jail sentence. Considering he was an ugly so and so I [more…]

Arts

Reading – A Love Story: Learning to Fly 1970-71 Part 1

11th February 2026 Going Postal 0

One of the most endearing traits of Western society is what we do in our spare time. The variety is enormous ( I’ll write more about this in future) – some are individual and some [more…]

Authoritarianism

The Shame of Our Cities, Part Three

11th February 2026 Going Postal 0

G-P correspondent AW Kamau responds to Armin Rosen’s Minneapolis dispatches, noting the Kenya connection. Local Kenya taxi driver seeking asylum in Canada used a Kenya broker (Kalenjin, same tribe as Ruto) witnessed numerous Somalis at [more…]

Health

New Knee or not New Knee? That is the question

10th February 2026 Going Postal 0

I have an old Collins Sporting Diary from 1971. Quite why I have kept it, I don’t know. In amongst the entries about how bossy my sister was, that I’d asked Chi-Chi to go to [more…]

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