Roger Ackroyd | Going Postal

Bax of Delights

18th August 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]

In Chaos there is Fertility

29th July 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

I would be very surprised if any of you good Going Postal readers would say of Sir Malcolm Arnold “never heard of him” when I tell you that he was the composer of film scores [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

28th June 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 27th June 2019 Panel: Caroline Flint Liz Truss Tom Newton Dunn Richard Walker Ayesha Hazarika Venue: Halifax First up may I give a hearty thank you to Flying Hippo for standing in last [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

17th May 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 16th May 2019 Panel: Eilidh Douglas (Amnesty International. Pro-Independence. Brexiteer) Christine Jardine (LibDem and ex-BBC) John Swinney (SNP) Richard Leonard (Scottish Labour) Bim Afolami (Tory) Venue: Elgin The first thing that came to [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

10th May 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 9th May 2019 Panel: Anna Soubry (Standing-At-the-Back-Looking-Mad-and-Barking-at-the-Moon Party) Amber Rudd (Standing-on-Beachy-Head-Contemplating-Jumping-to-EULand Party) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour Shadow Economics Secretary. Standing-Anywhere-You-Want-Me-To Party) John Mills (Chair of Labour Leave until last year. Donated £1.65 million to [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

3rd May 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 2nd May 2019 Panel: Kate Andrews (Associate Director of Institute of Economic Affairs – Leaver) Sonia Sodha (advisor to Ed Millimong, now chief leader writer at the Observer, aka the Sunday Grauniad – [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

26th April 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 25th April 2019 Panel: Caroline Lucas: Green MP (Remain) Vince Cable: LibDem MP (Remain) John Ashworth: Labour MP (Remain) Victoria Atkins (Tory MP Remain) John Rhys-Davies (Actor. Leaver) Venue: Nottingham In the first [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

5th April 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 4th April 2019 A date that has gone down in literary history. “[Winston Smith wrote] in small clumsy letters: April 4th 1984 He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

22nd March 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 21st March 2019 Panel: Tobias Ellwood (Tory. Remainer) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour. Remainer) Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP. ) John O’Dowd (Sinn Fein.) Polly MacKenzie (Demos.) Venue: Belfast Of this motley crew only Ellwood has a [more…]