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Further Childhood Holiday Memories
Dad changed jobs in early 1963 and went to work for, what was at the time, the worlds 3rd largest auction house. They were family business based in a turning off Bond Street. Dad’s new [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th November 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Merryn Somerset Webb (Commentator) Rosie Jones (Comedian) Venue: Dover At the end of last week’s Question Time, Fiona Bruce announced [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming. On the panel are: David Lammy, Matt Hancock, Merryn Somerset Webb, Robin Shattock and Rosie Jones. Set your Disqus comments to [more…]
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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Four
A sure-fire way to spoil the mood at Paris dinner party is to airily remark, when the conversation turns to literature, that you have read and enjoyed Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), by Renaud [more…]
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A New Dark Age
I have been struggling for a reasonable historical analogy to illustrate where the western democracies are going today. As we have clearly entered a new dark age I do not intend to hypothesise when exactly [more…]
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The Swaling, Part Twenty Eight
‘Harry’ Lee Kuan Yew was born in 1923 into a comfortably off Straits family, resident in the Reservoir Road area of Singapore. His father was a Shell Oil company executive, his mother the author or [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1964
Featured Album: In Dreams 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 the link for [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 5th November 2020 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) David Davis (Conservative) Lia Nandy (Labour) Rose McGowan (Cultural Resetter) Hanna Fry (Mathematician and TV Presenter) Simon Wolfson (Businessman) Jan (No idea) Venue: Lewisham At the [more…]
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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Three
Note: This text is not a translation, but is largely based on Le Suicide Français by Éric Zemmour (2014), from which it quotes heavily, both directly and silently. The analysis is Zemmour’s, not mine, and [more…]