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The Swaling, Part Twenty Three

3rd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 3723 Comments

Singapore. Forward Singapore! Everybody’s favourite piece of squashed diamond real estate, 31 miles by 17 miles, lies fashionably 200 miles south-east of Kuala Lumpur and 70 north of Sumatra. Here Malays, Chinese, South Asians, and [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

2nd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 4009 Comments

Question Time 1st October 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Helen Stokes-Lampard (GP) Stuart Rose (Businessman) David Linden (SNP) Venue: Carlisle Question Time began its celebration of black history month in the best [more…]

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War Crimes Part 27 – Death in the Algarve

27th September 2020 Blown Periphery 3537 Comments

The Transavia flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport, touched down at Lisbon thirty minutes behind schedule. The passenger who had been sitting in the starboard isle seat by the over wing exit, waited for the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Sixty

27th September 2020 Going Postal 3879 Comments

Monday Morning all. A great weekend, I got some real roast chicken in my bowl and I got the mouse! Early Sunday morning I crept into the main office and there he was sitting in [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Twenty Two

26th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 3637 Comments

By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 4016 Comments

Question Time 24th September 2020 Panel: Alok Sharma (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Sir Edward Davy (Liberal Democrat) Peter Borg-Neal (Businessman) Devi Sridhar (Public Health Official) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Venue: Chingford The present MP for Chingford [more…]

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William George Bunter of Greyfriars School

24th September 2020 Tom Pudding 3888 Comments

Introduction I recently emerged from a stunning and brave expedition into the furthermost recesses of our capacious loft space clutching a dusty cardboard box bearing the single word ‘Books’ that had lain forgotten there for [more…]

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In praise of journalists, or perhaps not

24th September 2020 well_chuffed 3012 Comments

I am not a journalist, the closest I have ever been to them is while I was working at News International’s fortress in Wapping during the move from Fleet Street to Docklands in 1985/6. I [more…]

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AWS, News at Ten, in Church

22nd September 2020 Always Worth Saying 4798 Comments

Dong! Puffin reads in church. Dong! Puffin makes a mess of it. Dong! Puffin advised not to look at the comments. As the rules for such things changed yet again, and as such a thing [more…]

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