Democracy
Always Worth Saying’s Election Night Review
I’ve done my bit. The girls at work agreed to vote for Reform. I wrote the name of the candidate on their hands in biro so they knew who to find on the ballot paper. [more…]
Media
Arts
Postcard From The Scotsman
Mrs AWS and I are enjoying our May day-trip to Edinburgh, but time is tight. After walloping down (£10) ice creams, we must hurry to Waverley station if only to watch our train depart the [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th June 2024 The Panel: Andrew Mitchell (Conservative) Yvette Cooper (Labour) Stephen Flynn (SNP) Leyla Moran (LibDem) Venue: Birmingham In recent QT reviews, we’ve spotted an over-representation of the never-had-a-job community in a [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 20th June 2024 The Panel: Rishi Sunak (Conservative) Sir Keir Starmer (Labour) Sir Edward Davey (Liberal Democrat) John Swinney (Scottish National Party) Venue: York With our ignored articles and unread comments, Puffins have [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 13th June 2024 The Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Stephen Nolan (Political Strategist) Iain Anderson (Businessman and Adviser) Venue: Edinburgh Tonight’s politicians are on Question Time too often. [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th June 2024 The Panel: Mark Harper (Conservative) Shabana Mahmood (Labour) Liz Saville-Roberts (Plaid Cymru) Carla Denyer (Green Party) Venue: Chester One of the Warwickshire Mahmoods, Shabana was Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood [more…]
Conservatives
Always Worth Saying’s Leaders’ Debate Review
The French have a phrase for it. Don’t they always? Ce pays ici. As a literal translation, ‘this country of ours’. By idiom, a courtier’s name for the Versailles bubble of pre-revolutionary France. Lord Clark [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th May 2024 The Panel: Damian Hinds (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Nigel Farage (Reform UK) Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Bishop of Dover) Piers Morgan (Journalist) Venue: Epsom On 14th April, Scotland’s The Nation newspaper reported [more…]
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…]