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Boxing Day Past

27th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Yes, I know it isn’t Boxing Day, it’s the day after, but not being around a century ago I can’t repeat the newses from those days with the usual mildly exaggerated and slightly embellished personal [more…]

Christmas Past

21st December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]

Downfall

20th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

As we reach the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, the tectonic plates of global power play shift once again. Syria? Wait for it. First, the world of retail is shaken to [more…]

Great Uncle Wally

16th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Great Uncle Wally introduced me to Guinness. Well, to be fair Mackeson, its slightly sweeter cousin. A stout more adapted to the tastes of your average seven-year-old. Those regular Sunday trips during the late 60s [more…]

Book Review, ‘Unleashed’ by Boris Johnson

14th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

The second-ever greatest Johnson of words, Samuel, the 18th-century lexicographer, informs us, “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”. Three centuries later, no matter what we think of life we’re [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

13th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 12th December 2024 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugenhat (Conservative) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Christine Jardine (LibDem) Emma Dabiri (Writer) Piers Morgan (Broadcaster) Venue: Beckenham Once upon a time, there was a little [more…]