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A Plutocrats’ Tour of The North

30th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

For generations, the phrase “grim up north” has lingered in the national imagination — conjuring images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. It is a shorthand that flattens the region [more…]

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Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Two

30th May 2026 Going Postal 0

Jane Goodley wasn’t in her office, Howard said she had been in meetings almost constantly since yesterday morning. “Has there been any progress?” “They have been studying the CCTV yesterday, it’s possible they have picked [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Blue Dot Fever

29th May 2026 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight, as we respectfully mark Inflammatory Bowel [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

29th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time AI Special 28th May 2026 The Panel: Darren Jones (Labour) Julia Lopez (Conservative) Laura Gilbert (Tony Blair Institute) Mo Gadwat (AI Pioneer) Victor Riparbelli (CEO, Synthesia) Venue: Dulwich Penned in 2022, a G-P [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Book Nine – Chapter Thirty-Two

28th May 2026 Going Postal 0

A happy Alberto left Jinnie and headed back to his office. Jinnie sat pondering the question of whom she should pitch the job of CEO of TT SuperBurger to. It was a major problem. She [more…]

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Labour’s bad boys – Part 15 The Hackney Abacus

28th May 2026 well_chuffed 0

We linger a while longer in 2023 where we encounter Diane Julie Abbott who has been the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. After getting a 2:2 in History she went through [more…]

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George Stephenson: The Father of the Railways

27th May 2026 Going Postal 0

He couldn’t read his own name until he was 18. Then he built the technology that shrank the planet. George Stephenson was born in a two-room cottage in Wylam, Northumberland, on 9 June 1781. There [more…]

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An Alliance of Arrogance

27th May 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

“I was in Alliance” is a euphemism for the hollow ethos of a certain “old school” elite that is totally disconnected from everyday Kenyan society. May 13, 2026 In April of 1963, with Kenya in [more…]

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A View From (Just Adjacent To) The Greenhouse; King O T’North….Issit?

26th May 2026 Colin Cross 0

Over the course of my fortnightly ramblings, my loyal reader may, (or more likely) may not have noticed a growing pile of rotting wood inside a rail fence which sits just outside the shed. It [more…]

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