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The Swaling, Part Fifty Nine

12th June 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself, Natasha Williams and a borrowed pushchair bound toddler called Jakey are on a bench in a rain-soaked Battishill Road Gardens in London’s Islington. We are disguised as a young family while having a secret [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Eight

5th June 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Back in London, I struggled to touch base with my colleague, Miss Natasha Williams, the other half of my nascent Operation Swaling, neglected by myself as I was sent north to play my part in [more…]

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My Time in Parliament

2nd June 2021 Going Postal 0

Having left for an idyllic childhood in a Leicestershire village at the age of 18 months, I returned to London in 1968 when I was posted to the MoD’s Army Contracts HQ in Southwark as [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Seven

29th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

In the Sleescale constituency office of Major Sir Fergus McDee MP, I have read out from my Royal and Industrial Insurance Company notebook a list of names inscribed on a nearby mining tragedy memorial. I [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Six

22nd May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

My colleague Captain Davies and I are in the constituency office of wet Tory grandee Major Sir Fergus McDee MC MP. Three hundred miles to the south, former Prime Minister Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Five

15th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Natasha Williams are at our department’s private election night party at a packed and noisy Dolphin Square bistro. In the early hours of the tenth of June nineteen eighty-three, a colour [more…]

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Misdiagnosis

12th May 2021 Going Postal 0

It was 05:45 on a Wednesday morning, in the spring of 2012, when my radio alarm woke me up at my normal time to get ready for work. I immediately realised something was badly wrong. [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Four

8th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Captain Davis are in the constituency office of Sleescale MP, Major Sir Fergus McDee MC. He is standing at the window facing into the room, eying us up. His secretary, Miss [more…]

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Memories of Japan, Centre Point to Osaka

6th May 2021 Lugosi 0

In 1985 I worked for Mitsubishi Electric and that gave me the privilege of visiting Japan three times and getting to know something of the Japanese working and business psyche. It introduced me to Japanese [more…]

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