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Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2762 Comments

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
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16th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2230 Comments

Question Time 15th May 2025 The Panel: Peter Kyle (Labour) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Alex Depledge (Tech entrepreneur) Sonia Sodha (Columnist and broadcaster) Venue: Aldershot Controversy broke out after last week’s edition of Question Time. During [more…]

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Independent or Hamas?

10th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 1472 Comments

The days when independent councillors were well-meaning, often single-cause, advocates saving a hospital or moving a gypsy camp, are long gone. Although Reform UK caught the headlines in early May’s local elections, their success was [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 1212 Comments

Question Time 8th May 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Graham Stuart (Conservative) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Calum Miller (LibDem) Jo Grady (University and College Union) Venue: Hull Well. One feels like the director of [more…]

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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2264 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3353 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

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Escape Of The Ransomed Princess

26th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 1940 Comments

You’ll have to take this with a sprinkling of salt — or several fistfuls if you’re the sort who needs receipts for everything. To be frank, I don’t much care if you believe me or [more…]

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25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2045 Comments

How I miss Question Time. One hankers after £30,000-an-hour Fiona Bruce pontificating on inequality before a representative audience of progressive liberals who have a relative at the BBC. As our £110,000-a-year elected representatives take a [more…]

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About Adolescence

19th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2303 Comments

A recent breakfast TV interview highlighted an awkward difference between the BBC’s Naga Munchetty and Kemi Badenoch. Questioned about the Netflix drama Adolescence, the Conservative Party leader stated she’d not followed the series and likely [more…]

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