Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1966
Featured song: The beach Boys – Good Vibrations 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 [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 21st November 2024 The Panel: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Harriett Baldwin (Conservative) Daisy Cooper (LibDem) Minette Batters (former NFU president) Venue: Trowbridge Nick Thomas-Symonds, not his real name (not double-barrelled; Thomas was his mother’s [more…]
19th Century
Enemies Within: Rendezvous on Windmill Street
Ruffians, alone or in groups of two or three, descend from different directions along gloomy London streets on a sharp winter’s weekday night in February 1894. Amongst them is a figure in a top hat [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 4
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. Please be welcome [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 14th November 2024 The Panel: Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Damian Hinds (Conservative) Ellie Chowns (Green Party) Greg Jackson (Businessman) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Venue: Basingstoke With an alternative energy chancer and a Green Party MP [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – 1965
Featured song: Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey 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 7th November 2024 The Panel: Sarah Jones (Labour) Matt Vickers (Conservative) Bonnie Greer (Author and Poet) Tim Montgomerie (Journalist) Venue: Hartlepool Sarah Jones was first elected to parliament in 2017 and is the [more…]
21st Century
Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight
Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 3
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. Please be welcome [more…]