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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2054 Comments

How I miss Question Time. One hankers after £30,000-an-hour Fiona Bruce pontificating on inequality before a representative audience of progressive liberals who have a relative at the BBC. As our £110,000-a-year elected representatives take a [more…]

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Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

11th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 1922 Comments

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Lands At Stake

5th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2527 Comments

A conversation that stuck An old conversation sticks in my mind. A decade or so later, through the synergy of passing time and the illumination provided by events, one plus one becomes three. On the [more…]

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Lessons from Churchill

6th March 2025 Going Postal 2899 Comments

Many of you may well be familiar with this outstanding biography of Winston Spencer Churchill first published in 2018. Over 982 pages, and splendidly subtitled “Walking with Destiny”, the eminent historian Andrew Roberts manages to [more…]

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A picture that tells you all you need to know about Europe (aka The EU). The gravy train is a very small club, and you ain’t in it. The proles can eat cake, and can [more…]

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Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac

26th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 2776 Comments

General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Reflections

18th February 2025 Colin Cross 2635 Comments

As expected (once DJT got his feet back under the table), it became more than a possibility that the war in Ukraine could be brought to a conclusion of sorts. It may not bring the [more…]

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Falastini

17th February 2025 well_chuffed 2773 Comments

The title of this article is the arabic for Palestinians. I always suspected that Philistine was exactly the same thing but I may be mistaken. Whatever the case, they are nowt but trouble. The reason [more…]

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