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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 2

7th February 2021 1642again 0

Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Great Plague of Athens In Part 1 of this series of articles about what is widely regarded as the greatest surviving piece of ancient historical writing, I tried to sketch [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Forty One

6th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Miss Williams’s accommodations resembled a hotel room rather than an apartment, and a middle-market one at that. Its attraction was location, location, location rather than size, furnishings and decor. That location was the seventh floor [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Four

5th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Thursday came around quite slowly for Jinnie as she was anxious to hear more. She had seen Ethel on a couple of her visits to the residential home since the last “whist” night, but she [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

5th February 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 4th February 2021 Panel: Oliver Dowden (Conservative) Thangam Debbonaire (Labour) Dr Wanda Wyporska (Equality Trust) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Farmer) Professor Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Venue: London On last week’s all-female Question Time, men were excluded [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 7

2nd February 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

PREFACE I’d like to start this article by explaining I scan the comments as each part is published and decide whether or not to continue the series accordingly. I’m now too old to continue for [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 5

31st January 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Ah, good father, Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, ’tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Part Seventy Eight

31st January 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Another week begins and it’s another frosty morning, so I only nipped out into the garden very briefly before breakfast. Today I read of the leading contenders for the leadership of the Scottishland Labour [more…]

Arts

The Swaling, Part Forty

30th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

April 1984 suffered its share of chill winds, further proof that the final quarter of the 20th century drew towards an ice age. But the clocks never struck thirteen and the masses making their way [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Three

29th January 2021 Going Postal 0

At school, Jinnie had been taught how Germany under Adolf Hitler had the taken over the rest of Western Europe (excluding Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Ireland), Eastern Europe and with its partner Italy, much of [more…]

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