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A Price Too High, Chapter One

14th December 2024 Going Postal 0

It was a cold early January afternoon, Dave Stretton was driving his Uber cab back to Loughborough, he had dropped off in Nottingham city centre. It was misty and looking at the temperature on the [more…]

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Fabulously Festive Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 6

13th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Seasonal greetings, dear Puffins, and please be welcome to part six in our short series of articles, guaranteed to contain no weirdos, nothing obscure, nothing remotely challenging and no tunes not thoroughly well known to [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

13th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 12th December 2024 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugenhat (Conservative) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Christine Jardine (LibDem) Emma Dabiri (Writer) Piers Morgan (Broadcaster) Venue: Beckenham Once upon a time, there was a little [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Seven, Chapter Twenty-Five

12th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie drove her Lexus up to the gate of the Warminster Specialist Weapons School and showed her and her sister’s orders to the armed guards manning the barrier. The lance corporal read the papers and [more…]

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The last dance for democracy?

12th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Let’s examine the raw, pulsating heart of today’s governance crises in the West. Populist movements, those so-called ‘disruptors’ of the status quo, aren’t just random eruptions of public discontent; they are the inevitable backlash against [more…]

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Three

11th December 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 2, I described how Afrika Korps Gefreiter, Hans Walden, had written to Fraü H. Bronnold about not having had any leave, having his hair cut (“eine fläzte”) and drinking salty coffee. His next [more…]

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Uprising in Kenya

11th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Broadcasted for the world to see through TikTok live stream before quickly going viral across several other social media platforms, a video shared early Tuesday, 25 June 2024, by a young Kenyan TikTok user showed [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse…..Fixing The Foundations, To Build Back Better

10th December 2024 Colin Cross 0

On Sunday night just passed we were treated to the sight of upwards of 150 tractors, of varying shapes and sizes, convoying around the villages in this part of Cumbria be-decked in Christmas lights.  As [more…]

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Are we the new Nazis?

10th December 2024 well_chuffed 0

I used to wallow, absolutely wallow, in self righteousness. The reason was simple. There was no chance we could ever sink so low as to be like those dreadful Nazis were. We, as a nation, [more…]

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