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Big Boys’ Rules

24th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 1747 Comments

In yet another BBC documentary on the subject, a Panorama edition entitled Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes dropped on 12th May and investigated serious allegations against UK Special Forces, in particular the SAS and [more…]

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Warfare – Snake style

22nd May 2025 Rookwood 2354 Comments

Puffins that have their ears to the ground (or is it ears to the clouds?) will no doubt be aware of the excellent series of lectures by David Betz which very convincingly argues that we [more…]

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Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2772 Comments

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2050 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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Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2432 Comments

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

Boy, how I miss Question Time. The witty repartee, the razor-sharp cut and thrust of debate. George the Poet. The £22 billion black hole. Foodbanks, the statutory tranny, and the obese woman with the purple [more…]

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Lands At Stake

5th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2525 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

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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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Moribund?

27th February 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2839 Comments

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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