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Authoritarianism

Book Review: They Thought They Were Free

6th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Sorry, this isn’t a book review……………As such. It is, however, an attempt to highlight the similarities between life in Germany during the early 1930s & life in the UK in 2021. In 1955, Milton Mayer [more…]

Arts

Postcard From Narvik, Part One

5th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Lying just above the 68th parallel makes the Norwegian port of Narvik more northern than Iceland. The Nordland municipality’s 20,000 inhabitants also live their lives 860 miles north of Oslo, 870 miles from Stockholm in [more…]

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 13

4th April 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Determine – Afghanistan 2001/2002 In the New Year they reassembled back at their Hereford base and the troop was told they would be operating in Afghanistan for a number of months. Edge was noticeable [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week Eighty Seven

4th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks these Monday mornings seem to come around faster and faster. Bozzie doesn’t seem to have suffered any ill effects from his vaccination he has been bouncing around like Heffalump over the [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Forty Nine

3rd April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

“Silly old fart.” Never slow to turn thoughts into words, Davies expressed that one from his side of our shared room, above a Sleescale corner shop, while sat in bed reading a three-day-old newspaper by [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Scottish Leaders’ Debate Review

2nd April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Scottish Leaders’ Debate Review Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Nichola Sturgeon (SNP) Alex Rennie (LibDem) Lorna Slater (Greens) Venue: Scotland If British politics is a Westminster village then Scottish politics is the outside [more…]

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Steeple-chasing

1st April 2021 Joe Slater 0

Whenever anybody says Britain has the best TV or the best health service in the world, I tend to bridle. I have seen a fair bit of TV overseas, and have found it much the [more…]

19th Century

Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd

31st March 2021 Going Postal 0

John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd should be a universally recognized cinema classic. Sadly, although it received generally positive reviews and did well in England, today it [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 11

30th March 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

AN OUT OF SEQUENCE REFLECTION There were more than 3,000 comments on Part 10 of my story some 22 hours after it was posted and I think that is probably a number that’s fairly typical [more…]

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