20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1956
Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog 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 it. [more…]
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Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th June 2024 The Panel: Mark Harper (Conservative) Shabana Mahmood (Labour) Liz Saville-Roberts (Plaid Cymru) Carla Denyer (Green Party) Venue: Chester One of the Warwickshire Mahmoods, Shabana was Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood [more…]
Fiction
Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Thirty-Three
The day following the office viewing, Jinnie was in her garden office, when she took a call from the commercial property agent, who said he had been talking to the landlord and made a reduction [more…]
Elections
Car Crash Campaigns
I know it’s a bit Clive James with the alliteration for a title but don’t worry, it won’t be anywhere near as witty as Clive was. I was chatting to my daughter, you know she’s [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mysteries, Part Four
The Royal Tank Museum Amman in Jordan is home to one of the best museums of its type in the world, The Royal Tank Museum. A project of the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, the [more…]
Conservatives
Always Worth Saying’s Leaders’ Debate Review
The French have a phrase for it. Don’t they always? Ce pays ici. As a literal translation, ‘this country of ours’. By idiom, a courtier’s name for the Versailles bubble of pre-revolutionary France. Lord Clark [more…]
Hobbies
A trip to Albania, land of the Eagles – Part Two
The family we stayed with were very hospitable, and as they were being paid something for the inconvenience of us staying there, I am sure we were very welcome! B and I and our lovely [more…]
20th Century
American Journey 1952, Part Four – Atlanta
On a chill November night in 1864 a small boy lay trembling behind a rock — not a hundred yards from where I am writing this — and watched a city burn. It was the [more…]
Going Postal
Remember me when I am gone away…
Now and again, amidst the bustle of comments that none of us read, we notice that a familiar voice has fallen silent, and we wonder. It isn’t particularly unusual for the folk who frequent this [more…]