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The Swaling, Part Thirty Nine

23rd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

We’re in the underground comms room of a deserted nighttime British High Commission in Singapore. Outside, a swaling wind, a tropical storm mixed with the burnings of Indonesian crops, is battering the city state’s good [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

22nd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 21st January 2021 Panel: Arlene Foster (DUP) Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Anand Menon (Politics Professor) Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein) Venue: Northern Ireland Not surprisingly, there’s a consensus abroad that mental health [more…]

The Question Time That Never Was

21st January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Panel: John Bercow (Former Speaker of the House of Commons) David Davis (Conservative) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Sir Rupert Soames (Businessman) Venue: The Cutting Room Floor The most recent complete series of BBC Question Time consisted [more…]

Dancing With the Dragon, Part One

18th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

China is one single indivisible territory containing one single indivisible people. It is the most populous nation on earth, the world’s second-biggest economy and has a longer continuous history than any other country – three [more…]

The Swaling, Part Thirty Eight

16th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

“Whose side are you on?” I snarled to Lotus Flower in a private message. “Mine,” she replied promptly. “You retire in disgrace in a few weeks, I have to think about the rest of my [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

15th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 14th January 2021 Panel: Victoria Ford (Conservative) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) Mike Barton (Former Chief Constable) Philippa Whitford (SNP) Venue: London The first question from the QT50 audience [more…]

The Swaling, Part Thirty Seven

9th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

In real life, we’re sat in a row in the comms room, logged on to our computers. On the screens our avatars are in the virtual 3D interactive world of EYE, an intelligence archive retrieval [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

7th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 6th January 2021 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Annaliese Dodds (Labour) Mark Walport (SAGE Scientist) Humphrey Cobbold (CEO of Pure Gym) Rachel Clarke (Doctor and Author) Venue: London Unhelpfully, Wednesday evening was punctuated by [more…]

The Swaling, Part Thirty Six

2nd January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

We’re in an underground comms room in Singapore, suffering a bit of low key blackmail as an old contact, Tammy, on the New York side of a cell-phone loudspeaker, wants to know something, before she’ll [more…]