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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

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Those Who Play With Fire, Chapter Sixteen

2nd November 2024 Going Postal 0

Dave was up at 08.00, Sally watched him from the bed, “what are you doing?” “We are going out today, had you forgotten?” “No, I didn’t realise it was an early start, where are we [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 3

1st November 2024 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. Please be welcome [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

1st November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 31st October 2024 The Panel: Darren Jones (Labour) Andrew Griffith (Conservative) Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat) Sir Tom Hunter (Entrepreneur) Sir Craig Oliver (Author and Journalist) Venue: Guildford Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren [more…]

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Jinnies Story – Book Seven, Chapter Nineteen

31st October 2024 Going Postal 0

The morning flight from Barbados to Antigua touched down a few minutes early having benefited from a tailwind. The only luggage that Jinnie, Trevor, Belinda and Brian had was Belinda’s trusty attaché case containing her [more…]

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Why Does Government Always Make the Same Economic Mistakes?

31st October 2024 Patrick Barron 0

Most economic analysts predict that the US is about to enter into a cyclical recession. Even Austrian School economists, like me, agree. The big question is “What will government do?”. Will it finally stop its [more…]

20th Century

The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 0

The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]

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The Problem Is Systemic

30th October 2024 Going Postal 0

October 15, 2024 If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only [more…]

20th Century

Close Approach of Mars to Earth

29th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

In September 1956, as Mars approached its closest to Earth for 34 years, John Alldridge summed up what we then knew (or thought we knew) of the planet for the Manchester Evening News – Jerry [more…]

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