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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 26th September 2024 The Panel: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Carla Denya (Green) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Venue: Milton Keynes Recent events in law have allowed the discerning reviewer to peer into [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Five

21st September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

There are two schools of thought, volunteer for everything, never volunteer for anything. I knew a chap sent to the South Atlantic. At Mount Pleasant airfield in what the Guinness Book of Records describes as [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 2

20th September 2024 Going Postal 0

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, Ivory Cutlery (currently numb of buttock, sore [more…]

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20th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 19th September 2024 The Panel: Lucy Powell (Labour) Graham Stewart (Conservative) Tim Farron (LibDem) Mariana Mazzucato (Economist) Jill Kirby (Journalist) Venue: Ashton-Under-Lyne The programme began with Fiona Bruce saying a very strange thing. [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Edizeone Apulia (Prima Parte)

17th September 2024 Colin Cross 0

And so to Italy, but not before making sure the Buildings and Maintenance team had been fully drilled in the routines required to ensure I didn’t return to any kind of disaster. I needn’t have [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Four

14th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Earlier this year, as my wife and I passed Birmingham’s Town Hall during our day trip from the North, we hummed Mendelssohn’s Elijah which debuted in the city’s triennial music festival of 1846. At that [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1963

13th September 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: The Beatles – Please, Please Me 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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Profession? Northerner!

13th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time we looked at the early career of Jimmy Tarbuck. We noted his success hinged upon – or was at least boosted by – a cheeky-chappy persona, quick wit, smart suits and a mop-top [more…]

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Review: Grace

10th September 2024 Going Postal 0

I watched ‘Grace’ last night. New series. Mainly because it was shot where I live. I recognise all the scene settings which makes it jar a bit when they walk down a street and turn [more…]

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