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A History of Pop Music – 1964

27th September 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94J1-XdJS1A Featured song: Roy Orbison – It’s Over  This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 26th September 2024 The Panel: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Carla Denya (Green) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Venue: Milton Keynes Recent events in law have allowed the discerning reviewer to peer into [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story Book Seven, Chapter Fourteen

26th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie left SuperBurgers HQ confident she had put a cat among the SuperBurger pigeons. Since inheriting her shareholding in the group, she had been in several of their branches and was certain the reason for [more…]

21st Century

Why did Ukraine invade and occupy a part of the Kursk Oblast?

26th September 2024 Going Postal 0

As we all know ‘the first casualty of war is the truth’. That short sentence sums it up neatly. Deception and propaganda are legitimate aspect of warfare. Both sides of a conflict try, in the [more…]

21st Century

Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?

25th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Underneath the appropriate concern of conventional airborne attacks on Israel by Iran and its progeny lies an anxious appraisal of a potential nuclear attack. That fear is the basic driving force of U.S. policy towards [more…]

21st Century

Teargassing a Baddie

25th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

September, 2024 The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action. If you were to ask 16-year-old me whether a day would come when I’d [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Five – Vienna

24th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Where a smile masks a city’s sorrow This a Tale from the Vienna Woods. A Tale told on a spring morning when, from the white cafe tables perched high on the Kahlenberg, the Danube really [more…]

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Drunk on Power

24th September 2024 well_chuffed 0

Keith has been taking steps, rather large ones, as he attempts to implement the UK equivalent of the former German Democratic Republic in this once green and pleasant land. Much of what follows comes under [more…]

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Lofty Ambitions

23rd September 2024 John Booth 0

This is a tale of woe, a tale of lack of planning, of insufficient forethought and carelessness.  It’s also a warning to all Puffins not to make the same mistakes as I have made, to [more…]

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