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The Swaling, Part Forty Seven

20th March 2021 Always Worth Saying 2953 Comments

The Colonel toured Sleescale’s backstreet digs in his battered Transit van picking up our colleagues as if they were black economy workers to be delivered to building sites, cockle beeches or docks. Most of us [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Ten

19th March 2021 Going Postal 2437 Comments

Saturday morning was much like any morning, the girls were up fairly early, had breakfast, but instead of lectures they had arranged to go together to the University Gym Club for a session in the [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

19th March 2021 Always Worth Saying 1926 Comments

Question Time 18th March 2021 Panel: Victoria Atkins (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Mark Carney (Former Bank of England governor) Ian Hislop (Editor and broadcaster) Venue: London, East Renfrewshire and Ottowa The first [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 10

16th March 2021 Ancient Mariner 2680 Comments

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 9 and a COVID DIGRESSION Yes FOXOLES I’m afraid you did miss something – perhaps my account was too oblique.   The double in South Africa existed only in the [more…]

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My First Foreign Holiday

16th March 2021 Going Postal 2045 Comments

I left school in July 1966 and started work as an apprentice in that September. I didn’t earn a lot of money but I did manage to save a little in the Bradford and Bingley [more…]

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The Disastrous Failure of Post War Media

15th March 2021 Godfrey Bloom 3982 Comments

In a parliamentary democracy offering only two political parties the press have played a significant role in questioning government  policy & more importantly holding that policy outcome to account. Not always admittedly for the common [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 11

14th March 2021 Blown Periphery 2590 Comments

Operation Palliser – May 2000 Jarvis was at his parents’ house, being spoiled rotten by his mother and indulged by his father. But the happy families’ illusion was deceptive, because he knew that his parents [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty Four

14th March 2021 Going Postal 2336 Comments

Monday Good morning people, what a beautiful morning, clear blue sky and warm. It was the same yesterday, I had a lovely snooze in the sun. I hope this sun lasts all day so I [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 6

14th March 2021 1642again 2153 Comments

The Twin Battles of Mantinea and Cynossema, and Series Conclusion In this final article of the Series, I want to discuss another of Thucydides’ apparent pairs of events – the Battles of Mantinea (late 418 [more…]

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