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Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan Pornocracy

2nd January 2025 Going Postal 0

Gen Z, Riggy G, and the Kenyan Pornocracy In a political landscape defined by opportunism, spectacle, and betrayal, Kenya’s youth-led protests offered a fleeting glimpse of change – only to be ensnared by the same [more…]

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GP Quiz Answers

1st January 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Original questions without answers can be found here All questions 1 mark each, unless otherwise indicated. Bonus Points where indicated. If Puffins prefer, they can download and print out the questions and answers by clicking [more…]

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Taleb A. – An Untypical Terrorist?

28th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Labelled by mainstream media as an untypical terrorist and referred to by the German legal system as Taleb A., Taleb Jawad H al-Abdulmohsen was born into a Shiite family in February 1974 in the Saudi [more…]

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Fabulously Festive Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 7

27th December 2024 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Festive Friday proudly presents yet another march of the muscle Marys up the salubrious passage of contemporary culture. As you brace yourselves for [more…]

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Endeavour’s Mega Christmas Trivia Quiz

26th December 2024 Going Postal 0

No using the internet… All questions 1 mark each, unless otherwise indicated. Bonus Points available where indicated. Self-marking – answers to follow when SB posts them. If Puffins prefer, they can download and printout the [more…]

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

25th December 2024 OldTrout 0

Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. In memory of Caroline Catherine McNicholas 2nd October 1957 – 3rd January 2022   OldTrout  

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Silent Night (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle)

24th December 2024 OldTrout 0

The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and its librettist, Joseph Mohr [more…]

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Christmas Past

21st December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1968

20th December 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: The Bee Gees – Words This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]

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