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Book review: Custer’s Trials, by T.J. Stiles

6th May 2025 Going Postal 2265 Comments

Writing another biography of Custer (1839-1876) is, as Stiles says, a bit like walking round Grand Central Station trying to find a piece of floor someone hasn’t already stepped on. Such is the fascination with [more…]

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An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 2277 Comments

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

2nd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 3369 Comments

Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’

30th April 2025 Going Postal 1908 Comments

This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]

20th Century

The Reece Committee: Lessons from history

30th April 2025 Going Postal 2339 Comments

In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the Cold War and growing concerns over potential clandestine efforts at internal subversion, the United States Congress launched an investigation into the activities of major tax-exempt foundations. [more…]

20th Century

Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

25th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2046 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…]

20th Century

Fitzroy Maclean

23rd April 2025 Going Postal 2633 Comments

When you hear the name Fitzroy Maclean, what comes to mind? For many, it’s his role as a founding member of the SAS, those daring desert raiders of World War II. Others might recall his [more…]

21st Century

Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2420 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…]

20th Century

The RSM

16th April 2025 Going Postal 1776 Comments

As we enter a weekend with Parliament being recalled to discuss something about Steel, it seems time to recall the last time I was near Scunthorpe while in the Army. A slight bit of History [more…]

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