Arts
The Swaling, Part Thirty Eight
“Whose side are you on?” I snarled to Lotus Flower in a private message. “Mine,” she replied promptly. “You retire in disgrace in a few weeks, I have to think about the rest of my [more…]
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20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1974
Featured Album: Bay City Rollers – Rollin This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and [more…]
20th Century
Jinnie’s Story, Chapter One
How It All Began Today was 21st June 2019 and Jinnie Walsh’s 18th birthday. She had completed her A-level exams and was doing what most girls of her age did in the summer before university [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 14th January 2021 Panel: Victoria Ford (Conservative) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) Mike Barton (Former Chief Constable) Philippa Whitford (SNP) Venue: London The first question from the QT50 audience [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming from Durham. On the panel are: Minister for children Vicky Ford MP, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth MP, Westminster spokesperson on [more…]
Arts
A Very Different World
Imagine it is just a few years ago and the usual winter respiratory virus is going round. Some years it is heavy, some years less so. This year in question, from a few years ago, [more…]
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Reexamining Corruption
It’s hard to make a pro-corruption argument. This might seem like a banal point to make, but it goes a long way to explaining its role as a rhetorical tool to delegitimise incumbent elites. Any [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Thirty Seven
In real life, we’re sat in a row in the comms room, logged on to our computers. On the screens our avatars are in the virtual 3D interactive world of EYE, an intelligence archive retrieval [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1973
Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for [more…]