Arts

The Swaling, Part Two

2nd May 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Miss Ng was a council house kid of sorts. Her family rented from Mr Lee’s Housing and Development Board. A truly Utopian organisation, it leased affordable property in projects that contained any and all of [more…]

Ooh, Aar A Progress Report On Rough Vegetable Gardening

2nd May 2020 Colin Cross 0

Hello folks, being a rough old gardener has both pitfalls and rewards. The greenhouse itself has obviously seen better years and it’s a bit like Triggers rake. It’s the same greenhouse that was erected, along [more…]

The Wrecking Crew

1st May 2020 Going Postal 0

Wiki: “The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognised in their [more…]

Gibbon

1st May 2020 Going Postal 0

Like others of our more important historians (Macaulay, Starkey), Gibbon wasn’t a professional academic. He was a gentleman, and an amateur, in the best sense. Early in his career he found the thing he most [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

1st May 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 30th April 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Jeane Freeman (Scotish National Party) Sir Paul Nurse (Medical Expert) George Osborne (Journalist) Venue: Leeds Surgeon General, and inventor of the syringe, Nobel [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

30th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from West London with pre-recorded questions from Leeds and questions and comments from social media. On the panel are: Grant Shapps [more…]

One Night in Dezhou

30th April 2020 Joe Slater 0

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. Here, the journey resumes with an unintended stopover in the crappy end of Dezhou, an obscure industrial [more…]

The Silver Pit

29th April 2020 Going Postal 0

Some of you may remember that some time ago I wrote an article about my family tree research and how I’d discovered many interesting things about my family history. One thing I learned was that [more…]

Britain under lockdown

29th April 2020 Going Postal 0

In the space of a few weeks, the Overton window has been moved so far to the left, it has shattered. Whereas before teh virus, the left were only talking about refusing treatment to smokers and [more…]