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The Swaling, Part Thirty One

28th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Sharp elbows approached us across a crowded reception room at the British High Commissioner’s annual bash. Mrs Belinda Wong, of the Wong Address Forwarding Company, myself and my wife, Nicole, wait in anticipation. I’m rather [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 26th November 2020 Panel: Nadim Zahawi (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Labour) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Claire Fox (Member of the House of Lords) Tanni-Grey Thompson (Paralympian) Venue: Swansea Your humble author is forced to [more…]

Check the Edges, Bite the Middle

24th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Part way between Del Mar (Where the Surf Meets the Turf), Reno (The Biggest Little City in the World), and weird Portland, lies the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California. San Francisco itself is [more…]

The Swaling, Part Thirty

21st November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

The Diplomatic Corp are jammed into the reception rooms at the British High Commissioner’s residence at Eden Hall. The weather is against us. Not only is there a swaling wind (from the crop burnings in [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

20th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 19th November 2020 Panel: James Cleverly (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Ian Blackford (SNP) Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Bishop of Dover) Fraser Nelson (Editor and columnist) Venue: Windsor An all blue Fiona Bruce took the first [more…]

The Swaling, Part Twenty Nine

14th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

“Do you believe any of this nonsense?” “Of course not.” “They’re not going to sign it are they?” “You’ll see.” Myself and Miss Noor of the Pakistan High Commission, are ‘enjoying’ a presentation as part [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

13th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 12th November 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Merryn Somerset Webb (Commentator) Rosie Jones (Comedian) Venue: Dover At the end of last week’s Question Time, Fiona Bruce announced [more…]

Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

9th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

As a young boy, I lived in the colonies. Peaceful if not idyllic to start with, things began to run out of control. The flames were fanned by ancient tribal hostilities and anti-British sentiment. The [more…]

The Swaling, Part Twenty Eight

7th November 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

‘Harry’ Lee Kuan Yew was born in 1923 into a comfortably off Straits family, resident in the Reservoir Road area of Singapore. His father was a Shell Oil company executive, his mother the author or [more…]