Media
Footballs’s Race to Play The Race Card
The first game of the Premier League campaign kicked off on Friday, 15th August in front of 60,315 fans on the red side of Stanley Park. As Liverpool took on Bournemouth, the first goal of [more…]
Media
Authoritarianism
In Like Zinc
Going-Postal’s old friends in the shadowy world of contractors used to disseminate government propaganda are back in the news. This particular practitioner of the dark arts of perception management and black propaganda came to Puffin’s [more…]
Authoritarianism
Dreading The Weekend
The Prime Minister and Cabinet are dreading this weekend. Why so, and how do we know? Because they keep on telling us, not least via endless references to a summer of discontent brought to us [more…]
Authoritarianism
Do You Still Believe Anything You Read?
Apologies in advance to Larry and his scribe WorthingGooner for pre-empting part of this coming Sunday’s ever popular and always entertaining Larry’s Diary, but something has cropped up and I think all G-P authors, commenters [more…]
Internet
You Mean, The Government Uses Actors?
So, the government uses actors. Why not? Dave Prowse, most famous for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, dressed up as Green Cross Code Man in an information film and encouraged youngsters [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Glasto Review
Glasto 27th-29th June 2025 Present: Charli xcx Bob Vylan Neil Young Venue: Glastonbury What a struggle it was, but on your behalf this humble reviewer — devastated by the absence of Question Time during the [more…]
Christianity
Changed Times? Part Two
Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 26th June 2025 The Panel: Anas Sarwar (Labour) Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Thomas Kerr (Reform UK) Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) Lesley Riddoch (Journalist & Broadcaster) Venue: St Andrews Shirley-Anne Somerville is the Scrounging Nasty Party [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 19th June 2025 The Panel: Peter Kyle (Labour) Lord Willetts (Conservative) Katherine Birbalsingh (Headteacher) Jack Thorne (Screenwriter) Tommyinnit (YouTuber) Venue: Greenford This week Fiona Bruce presents what the guff accompanying Question Time describes [more…]