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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

4th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 3rd February 2022 The Panel: Crispin Blunt (Conservative) Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour) Robin Shattock (Imperial College) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Venue: Tottenham In last week’s review, eagle-eyed readers spotted I’d confused [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 3

3rd February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]

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Diary Of A Covid Victim

3rd February 2022 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

Sunday I got a lift from Ms Geek’s sister and husband for a family gathering in the West Country where I would finally meet the delectable Ms Geeks after a few weeks’ absence.  A boring [more…]

19th Century

1850s British and American Rifle-Musket Cartridges Compared

2nd February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction My main interest in firearms has always been their technology and development, particularly during the 19th century which saw an incredible advance from flintlock, smoothbore muskets to semi and even fully automatic weapons. This [more…]

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Smoke and Mirrors: Nadine Dorries’ announcement on the BBC TV licence by Stockton Heath

2nd February 2022 Going Postal 0

Recently Nadine Dorries announced the end of the BBC as we know it. At least that’s what the culture secretary appeared to imply when declaring that the next licence fee announcement will be the ‘last’ [more…]

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Postcard From Osh

2nd February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

A promise was made to Puffins regarding a dispatch from Kazakhstan to report upon the fighting between Kazakh forces, Russian paratroopers and ‘fuel protestors’. Located at Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, a correspondent was only 12 miles [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 33

1st February 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSES Joe Slater is obviously more familiar than I with written Chinese Characters and I thank him for explaining that Zheng He and Cheng Ho were one and the same person. When visiting the museum [more…]

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The impact of the Central African situation with regard to the Lucky Onion trade

1st February 2022 Grimy Miner 0

I found this script, on a park bench, and found it interesting. NewsTonight featuring Camelly Mateless “Good Evening, and welcome to NewsTonight. with me, Camelly Mateless. Tonight we are investigating the ongoing situation in Central [more…]

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The treachery of our very own fourth estate

1st February 2022 well_chuffed 0

Who among us is not aware of the disgraceful behaviour of the BBC during the Falklands War. They did their utmost to scupper our chances and give information in public that was very useful to [more…]

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