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The Swaling, Part Forty One

6th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Miss Williams’s accommodations resembled a hotel room rather than an apartment, and a middle-market one at that. Its attraction was location, location, location rather than size, furnishings and decor. That location was the seventh floor [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

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Question Time 4th February 2021 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Dr Wanda Wyporska (Equality Trust) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Farmer) Professor Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Venue: London On last week’s all-female Question Time, men were excluded [more…]

The Swaling, Part Forty

30th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

April 1984 suffered its share of chill winds, further proof that the final quarter of the 20th century drew towards an ice age. But the clocks never struck thirteen and the masses making their way [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

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Question Time 28th January 2021 Panel: Gillian Keegan (Conservative) Kate Green (Labour) Deborah Meaden (Businesswoman) Layla McCay (NHS Confederation) Camilla Tominey (Journalist) Venue: London Your humble author recalls two prominent local gentlemen of his acquaintance. [more…]

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

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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…]