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Cruising at Christmas (and the New Year) – Part 2

24th January 2020 Going Postal 0

Thursday – St Vincent and the Grenadines (Boxing Day) I woke just as we were docking, no mad rush to get moving as I was on an afternoon trip. However I was peckish so I [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

24th January 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 23rd January 2020 Panel: Theresa Villiers (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Trevor Phillips (Broadcaster) Mike Barton (Former Chief Constable) Sarah Baxter (Sunday Times) Venue: Stoke Newington Dear reader, had this week’s Question Time been [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

23rd January 2020 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Stoke Newington. On the panel are: Theresa Villiers MP, secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative; Emily [more…]

It started with a piss – Part Two

23rd January 2020 Tom Pudding 0

First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]

Labour

23rd January 2020 Colin Cross 0

Then “Now then our Colin, what is it tha’s thinking about doing when tha’ leaves school”. The question came completely out of the blue. It was Saturday morning and Colin was in the cobblers shed [more…]

You spin me right round baby…

22nd January 2020 Leopard 0

Musings on objects and motion, part one, the basics Recently a comment, that nobody read, was posted by one of our more trollish contributors trying to toll people about the world not be round or [more…]

Communist Flip Flops

22nd January 2020 well_chuffed 0

The aspiration for this article is to enlighten some Puffins about the several about-turns the Communists were forced into before, during and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, [more…]

PMQs with Going Postal

22nd January 2020 Going Postal 0

Agenda Oral questions: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office (including Topical Questions) Prime Minister’s Question Time Consideration of Lords amendments Legislation: Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill: Second Reading Consideration [more…]

Joe Malone, Part Forty-Five

21st January 2020 Going Postal 0

It was then that I realised that this wasn’t old medical data at all. It was current data. It was now. Real-time live. And Lord Bixby had just moved from a steady fifteen, to a [more…]