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Postcard from Lille, Part 15
As with America, I went back and forward, back and forward to the Philippine Islands for about five years, but will tell the tale as one continuous story, in situ over there, perhaps including an [more…]
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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th May 2019 Panel: Anna Soubry (Standing-At-the-Back-Looking-Mad-and-Barking-at-the-Moon Party) Amber Rudd (Standing-on-Beachy-Head-Contemplating-Jumping-to-EULand Party) Jonathan Reynolds (Labour Shadow Economics Secretary. Standing-Anywhere-You-Want-Me-To Party) John Mills (Chair of Labour Leave until last year. Donated £1.65 million to [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Northampton. On the panel: Amber Rudd MP, secretary of state for Work and Pensions and former home secretary, Conservative; Jonathan [more…]
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Project Mower Refurb
It is the Easter holidays. The Missus is at work for the day, so I’m not being dragged around the shops, the kids are revising/ generally avoiding dad. I’ve pottered for a day or so [more…]
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The Encyclopedia of Lost Languages
During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]
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Postcard from Lille, Part 14
“Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we are just commencing our approach into Kai Tak international airport in Hong Kong, the weather is fine, during the approach we’ll have Kowloon City on the [more…]
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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd May 2019 Panel: Kate Andrews (Associate Director of Institute of Economic Affairs – Leaver) Sonia Sodha (advisor to Ed Millimong, now chief leader writer at the Observer, aka the Sunday Grauniad – [more…]
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Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Warrington. On the panel are Ken Clarke MP, former chancellor of the exchequer and home secretary, currently the longest-serving MP [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Publication
The first Going Postal serialised novel – The Unseen Path – is now published and available to purchase. It was serialised over the course of about 11 months in 2017/18, and ran to about 180,000 [more…]