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Always Worth Sayings Question Time Review

23rd September 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 22nd September 2022 The Panel: Brendon Clarke-Smith (Conservative) Wesley Streeting (Labour) Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats) Gerard Lyons (Economist) Claire Fox (Academy of Ideas) Venue: Grimsby As we enter the Carolean era we turn [more…]

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Liquid Thoughts on Beer

22nd September 2022 Going Postal 0

I was gratified recently to find that my uncle, John Alldridge, occasionally took time off in the 1940s from reporting World War II and its aftermath to concentrate on more important matters, as can be [more…]

20th Century

One Degree of Separation

21st September 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

My niece tapped on the home office door. When she was smaller I would babysit and sell her pieces of paper as her need to draw and write would keep her occupied. Yes, sell. We [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse: We’re All “Far Right” Now, Innit?

20th September 2022 Colin Cross 0

Two weeks ago, when I commenced to writing my last episode about the trials and tribulations of a lazy, often reluctant veg grower and half hearted forager, I had no idea there’d be a new [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 23, Maidenhead and Home

18th September 2022 Blown Periphery 0

The morning flight from Tel Aviv landed at Heathrow at 10:30. Afarin collected her hand baggage from the overhead locker and made her way to the exit. As soon as she stepped off the aircraft [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Fifty-Nine

18th September 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning my happy readers. Gosh that was some storm last night, there I was asleep happily curled up in my cat basket on my nice soft blanket when I was woken up by [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Chapter Nine

16th September 2022 Going Postal 0

Jinnie was sorely tempted to tell her close friends at work that she was pregnant but didn’t, instead she stuck with the plan to tell them at Christmas and decided that as her next antenatal [more…]

20th Century

Champagne, a Plan and A Philosopher

15th September 2022 Going Postal 0

On New Year’s Eve 1946, my uncle reviewed his first year at home since the end of the War for the Manchester Evening News. It would seem that at times he was finding it hard [more…]

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A Shopping Expedition

13th September 2022 Going Postal 0

AT THE SUPERMARKET I went to a prestigious supermarket near my home town in the south of England today and couldn’t find the aisle displaying butter.  A smartly dressed man with a Brand label on [more…]

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