20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1993
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1993 Featured Album: R.E.M – Automatic For The People This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th May 2021 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Tom Newton Dunn (Journalist) Kate Clancy (Writer and teacher) Nandra Ahmed (National Care Association) Venue: London First question, do you agree with Dominic [more…]
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Postcard from Romania – Part Three
Part Two of the Postcard from Romania saw me waxing rhapsodic about the Museum of Pharmacy at the Mauksch-Hintz House in Cluj. After a fantastic visit, when we spent hours marvelling at the extraordinary collections, [more…]
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GB News Preview by Always Worth Saying
Monday the 31st May Sunday the 13th June 2021 sees the much-anticipated launch of Britains’ newest news channel, Andrew Neil’s GB News. With its Union Jack based logo and a hint of the words “Great” [more…]
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Wolf Country: A Spiritual History of Iran
Introduction Paropamisidae, Arachosia, Gedrosia, Hyrcania…what strangely mellifluous names were given to the provinces of the Persian Empire conquered by Alexander, whose name became synonymous with evil in the Iranian mind. Hyrcania had echoes even in [more…]
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Defund the BBC, letter 1
The following letter is not intended to be legal advice. I am particularly interested to hear about any successful fraud cases against TV licence investigators. NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL – NOTICE [more…]
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The Swaling, Part Fifty Six
My colleague Captain Davies and I are in the constituency office of wet Tory grandee Major Sir Fergus McDee MC MP. Three hundred miles to the south, former Prime Minister Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1992
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1992 Featured Album: Annie Lennox – Diva This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 20th May 2021 Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Devi Sridhar (Academic) Richard Walker (Retailer) Harriet Green (Buisnesswoman) Venue: London & Edinburgh Never mind that, Puffins want to know about my toothache. [more…]