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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

26th June 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 25th June 2020 Panel: Steve Barclay (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Iona Bain (Finance Blogger) Theo Paphitis (Businessman) George the Poet (Spoken Word Artist) Venue: Under Thirties Special First responder to BLM’s call to [more…]

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Going Postal with Question Time

25th June 2020 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of left-wing screeching. On the panel are: Chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding Jess Phillips, entrepreneur [more…]

Arts

At the Kim Dae-jung Museum

25th June 2020 Joe Slater 0

Mokpo, 2016 When I left the hotel the following morning, the receptionist was away on an errand – she had left the whole establishment unattended. I waited for five minutes, studying the lobby décor. It [more…]

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Authoritarianism

The War On Cash – COVID Edition Part II

25th June 2020 Going Postal 0

The digital “toll” It doesn’t require too dark an imagination to realize the gravity of the concerns over the digital yuan. China is a true pioneer when it comes surveillance, censorship and political oppression and [more…]

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Manly Maintenance During Lockdown – Radiators

24th June 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

A series of handy tips for doing stuff around your house. Tools required: Some bottles of finest Old Hooky beer A big hammer An excessively big hammer Bleed key (the one with 4 different size/types) [more…]

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Arts

A paralysis of dignity

24th June 2020 Rookwood 0

[Credit for this piece goes to Mojo, without whose astute observations I would not have been inspired to write these words.] I don’t know about you, but for a number of years now, there has [more…]

Fiction

Joe Malone, Part Sixty-Six

23rd June 2020 Going Postal 0

The BBC junior lawyer had gone. A production assistant had come to tell us “Precording will begin quite shortly. Someone will call for you. It’s going to be in studio six.” She went away. Ch [more…]

20th Century

Hungary 1956; ‘Normalization’ in Budapest

23rd June 2020 Going Postal 0

The crushing of the 1956 Hungarian uprising led to repercussions far beyond the borders of the country itself.  In its wake communist fellow travellers were forced to confront the grim realities of Soviet realpolitik, the [more…]

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Literature

Rodion and Sonya’s Garret: A Tale of Redemption

22nd June 2020 Going Postal 0

   We will kill desire: we will foster drunkenness, gossip, denunciation; we will foster unheard-of depravity; we will stifle every genius in its infancy. Everything reduced to a common denominator, complete equality. Dostoyevsky Rodion opened [more…]

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