20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1988
Featured song: The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th October 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Zack Polanski (Green Party) Annabel Denham (Journalist) Venue: Shrewsbury We have a first. After all these years of [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Thirty-Two
Jinnie and Penny were stiff after the car journey from Berlin. So far they had not been stopped at any checkpoints, but they had been waved through several. The police seemed to be looking for [more…]
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Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 5
After 13 days travelling I was in need of a laundry, which happened to be located in the basement of the hotel that I had just checked-into in Barrie. The following morning I would avail [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 6
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark Hamster Awareness Month, [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd October 2025 The Panel: Hilary Benn (Labour) Alex Burghart (Conservative) Jonathan Buckley (DUP) John Finucane (Sinn Fein) Aoife Moore (Journalist) Venue: Belfast Hilary Benn (not his real name, Hilary James Wedgwood-Benn) has [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Thirty-One
Jinnie woke up on Saturday morning and for a moment wondered where she was before remembering she was in Manfred’s Berlin apartment. Hanna and ‘Lina’ had left for Hanna’s home in the suburb of Charlottenburg [more…]
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Ocean-to-Ocean, Part 4
We start in New York, having just disembarked the QM2 and taken a ferry across the river to Pier 11/Wall Street, so what now? The last time I stayed here there were two additional skyscrapers [more…]
Culture
A View (1500 Miles Or So) From The Greenhouse; A Postcard
My loyal reader may recall the birth of my first grandchild, twelve calendar months ago this week. To recap (contextual) it was a traumatic time for the whole family, not least for both mother and [more…]