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Car Review: Volkswagen T-Cross 1.0 R-Line DSG

14th August 2020 Going Postal 3338 Comments

As GP has recently turned into an alternative source of information for the motoring enthusiast, I thought I would join Always Worth Saying and Phil the Test Manager in writing a motoring review. We took [more…]

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Book Review: Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

16th June 2020 Always Worth Saying 3478 Comments

A while ago this reviewer attended a lecture. The subject was ten books that had changed the world. Delivered by Melvyn Bragg, author of a work of the same name, having been talked through three [more…]

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Book Review: Kick by Paula Byrne

3rd June 2020 Going Postal 4129 Comments

The subtitle of this book is ‘the true story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s forgotten sister, and the heir to Chatsworth’, although personally I think the title ‘forgotten sister’ might be more accurately applied to JFK’s [more…]

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Book Review: The Fake News Factory by David Sedgwick

8th May 2020 John Booth 2439 Comments

I read David Sedgwick’s first book about the BBC, ‘BBC: Brainwashing Britain?’ (the Kindle version) when it came out in December 2018 and was immediately nodding and mouthing ‘yes, yes, yes’ at virtually every page. [more…]

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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 2628 Comments

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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Amazon’s Dirty Tricks: When the BBC Calls

15th April 2020 Going Postal 2651 Comments

Readers of this website might have heard about my recently published critique of the BBC, ‘The Fake News Factory: Tales from BBC-land’ a fruity and occasionally witty expose of the UK’s thoroughly dishonest state propaganda [more…]

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A Different Class of Murder, by Laura Thompson

1st April 2020 Going Postal 3630 Comments

We Brits love a mystery, and they don’t come much more mysterious than Lord Lucan. There are lots of books out there about the Lucan case – those of us who were around then will [more…]

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Some Things to do in Lockdown

19th March 2020 Jonathon Davies 4221 Comments

Well frens, it’s been a little while since I’ve written. Dad passing away, sorting his affairs, loss of old job, moving to new job, very busy. One thing to come out of it all is [more…]

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Book review – The Unseen Path by J.D. de Pavilly

20th February 2020 Rookwood 2613 Comments

Normally in book reviews, the reviewer will attempt to outline the plot and genre of the work without giving too much of the game away. To do so in this instance, would be no easy [more…]

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