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Month: September 2026

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

18th September 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 17th September 2026 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) Joy Morrissey (Conservative) Danny Kruger (Reform UK) Caroline Lucas (Green Party) Venue: Salisbury For once the interesting member of the family, rather than the dullard, [more…]

Arts

Crossing the Atlantic, At Sea

17th September 2026 Going Postal 0

I unpacked my belongings and noticed that outside of my cabin windows was a little orange motor boat that was lowerable down to the water via a crane that swung the thing away from the [more…]

Conservatives

Tory Bad Boys – Part 02 John Profumo

17th September 2026 well_chuffed 0

Quite possibly one of the most damaging events in the history of the Tory Party. Everything was going wrong for them, they seemed like a bunch of incompetents. From the great train robbery, spies in [more…]

Politics

Ceuta – A Bridge too Far?

16th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Peruvian strongman Oscar Benavides once famously said “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law.” Once, such a thing might have provided a succinct summary of the practice of privilege in its literal sense [more…]

America

What It Means to Be an American

16th September 2026 Patrick Barron 0

There is a very big difference between being an American and a citizen of any other nation We often hear that Americans are special. We may even say that ourselves. But what does that mean? [more…]

18th Century

A View From (The Plot By) The Greenhouse; Unintended Consequence?

15th September 2026 Colin Cross 0

It’s getting near the end of the original planting of potatoes. The original idea was to do a second planting, in between the rows that had already been lifted, to (hopefully) provide fresh spuds into [more…]

20th Century

Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 3)

15th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, the firm where George Soros honed his craft from 1963 to 1973, was a fusion of two venerable German institutions. The first, founded in 1864 by brothers Max and Georg Arnhold [more…]

18th Century

Thomas Bewick: the Northumbrian who made his mark

14th September 2026 Going Postal 0

Thomas Bewick redrew every bird in Britain on blocks of boxwood the size of a beer mat, hid some very rude jokes in the margins of a natural history book, and created fingerprints 80-odd years [more…]

Drinking

In praise of red wine

14th September 2026 well_chuffed 0

Way back in the 70s or it might even have been the 60s, the French Wine Industry insisted that red wine was really good for you. I took this to heart, forget the butter is [more…]

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