20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1955
Featured song: Bill Haley & His Comets with “Rock Around the Clock”. This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Media
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 23rd May 2024 The Panel: Mark Spencer (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Ash Sarkar (Broadcaster) Daisy Cooper (LiberalDemocrat) Tim Montgomerie (Broadcaster) Venue: Coventry The other morning, embarrassingly north of 7:30 am, [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 16th May 2024 The Panel: Meghan Gallagher (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Stephen Flynn (SNP) Alex Salmond (Alba) Iain Dale (Broadcaster) Venue: Aberdeen Meghan Gallacher is currently Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and [more…]
Culture
OTF Party: What Makes/Made Us Quintessentially English/British?
“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian takeaway to sit on a Swedish sofa in front of a [more…]
20th Century
Going-Postal Eurovision Song Contest Special
Who could have thought in the middle years of the twentieth century that the then-nascent Eurovision Song Contest could, a mere seven decades hence, be described by serious commentators as ‘noncing s***’? Albeit the commentator [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th May 2024 The Panel: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Grace Blakeley (Author) Humphrey Cobbold (CEO of PureGym) Venue: Stoke-on-Trent Lisa Nandy is on Question Time too often. Tonight’s appearance takes her [more…]
Arts
Television’s Albertstein Monster
End of the old endboards Gone are the days when television programmes finished with a caption proclaiming ‘Granada, From The North’ or a plummy continuity announcer saying, ‘Mike Yarwood is appearing in summer season in [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd May 2024 The Panel: Bim Afolami (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Kirsty Blackman (SNP) Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) Anita Boateng (Former Conservative advisor) Venue: Cambridge The great thing about having your own [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th April 2024 The Panel: Chris Philp (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Munira Wilson (LibDem) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Charles Moore (Columnist) Venue: Tottenham Wesley Paul William Streeting appears on QT and other broadcast [more…]