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…]
Television
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 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…]
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…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 18th April 2024 The Panel: David TC Davies (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Carla Denyer (Green) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Venue: Buxton A QT regular, Bridget Phillipson (not her real name, Bridget Maeve Dimery) [more…]