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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

22nd October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 21st October 2021 The Panel: Andrew Bowie (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Heather McGregor (Edinburgh Business School) Brian Cox (Actor) Venue: Glasgow More restrictions to prevent a winter wave of Covid? [more…]

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Book Review: “We Defended Normandy” by Lt Gen Hans Speidel, 1951

21st October 2021 Going Postal 0

Could War In Europe Have Ended in 1944? Was Montgomery right ? Americans said “No”, now Speidel says “Yes”   “We Defended Normandy” by Lt-Gen Hans Speidel (Herbert Jenkins, 12. 6d.), 1951 Book review by [more…]

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Growing In A Pandemic – End Of Season

19th October 2021 Colin Cross 0

I’d intended to have a little rant about the continuing brouhaha surrounding “vaccines”, “vaccine passports” and such matters, as it seems pretty clear to me that those who we employ to govern us have spent [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 7

17th October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge was chatting with the men of The Urban Counter-Terrorism Special Forces Group – Alpha, otherwise known as AFEUR or AFEAU. They were good soldiers, but more at home in the cities of Colombia. They [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hunderd and Fifteen

17th October 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Another Monday and back to work for this cat. Nice and peaceful as loads of people have gone to Manchester which I understand is ‘Oop North’ and has petrol. Perhaps Bozzie could make himself [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Five

16th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, our well-travelled Mystery Album photographers took us to South Walsham on a Norfolk Broads wherry holiday. We were left tied up at the present day mooring of Lord Fairford. Since then, the ladies [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Two, Chapter Seventeen

15th October 2021 Going Postal 0

Easter term didn’t start until 27th April which meant that Jinnie and her flatmates were looking at working for the SIS for around 3 weeks after Easter. To make it easier on them they were [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

15th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 14th October 2021 The Panel: Penny Mordaunt (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Samuel Kasumu (Former No10 advisor) Anne McElvoy (Journalist) Robert Winston (Scientist) Venue: Nottingham Lorriane wanted politicians to say sorry regarding the conclusions [more…]

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The Road Back to Normandy, Part Three

14th October 2021 Going Postal 0

In May 1954 my uncle John Alldridge returned to Normandy. This is his third and final report for the Manchester Evening News. The lines at the end are inspired, I think, by the St. Crispin’s Day speech [more…]

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