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20th Century

The Woman Reporter, Part One

21st April 2022 Going Postal 3176 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) No Half-Way For Ladies When I got my first job on a newspaper twenty-five years ago [more…]

20th Century

The Crime Reporter, Part 2

13th April 2022 Going Postal 3417 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When people think of the crime reporter they associate him inevitably with the hurly-burly of Fleet [more…]

20th Century

The Crime Reporter, Part 1

6th April 2022 Going Postal 6254 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) As long as there have been newspapers there have been crime reporters. For crime is as [more…]

20th Century

The Innocent on Everest

31st March 2022 Going Postal 2749 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) The special correspondent doesn’t talk about ‘assignments’. He talks about ‘jobs’. His next ‘job’ may send [more…]

20th Century

South Pole or Bust

24th March 2022 Going Postal 3282 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) The special correspondent is a modest chap. He’ll tell you that he’s only a reporter watching [more…]

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe & The Propaganda War Against Iran

22nd March 2022 Always Worth Saying 3202 Comments

The Mysterious Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe In the early hours of Thursday 17th March 2022, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire after a near six-year-long detention in her native Iran. Part of the time [more…]

20th Century

Disaster at Munich

21st March 2022 Going Postal 3627 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) A good reporter must be impersonal. He must write the story as he finds it, without [more…]

21st Century

The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*

16th February 2022 Blown Periphery 1840 Comments

Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]

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The treachery of our very own fourth estate

1st February 2022 well_chuffed 2218 Comments

Who among us is not aware of the disgraceful behaviour of the BBC during the Falklands War. They did their utmost to scupper our chances and give information in public that was very useful to [more…]

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