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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 8th February 2024 The Panel: James Daly (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat) Paddy McGuinness (Presenter and Actor) Inaya Folarin Iman (Writer and Broadcaster) Venue: Nottingham Wes Streeting is the Labour [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Sixteen

8th February 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie settled into the First Class compartment on the Thameslink train from Hadley Wood to Moorgate. It was just like the old days when she commuted into the Cross, but she now could afford to [more…]

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A View From (Just By) The Greenhouse; Borders, Who Needs Em’?

6th February 2024 Colin Cross 0

The weather’s taken something of a turn for the better, Daves’ hand is healing up nicely, if you ignore the numb thumb and my back (sadly the saga continues) is just about capable of allowing [more…]

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Desert Journey, Part One

6th February 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1961 my uncle, John Alldridge spent some time on the set of Lawrence of Arabia and reported his experiences for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Akaba, Jordan I am writing this on the [more…]

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Postcard From Keflavik

4th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Art and the terminal Puffins who can see an enviably empty airport car park in the middle of nowhere with the skeleton of a nosedived B-52 embedded in the tarmac embarrassingly far from any runway, [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty

4th February 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Hi folks, well that was a bit of a wild night here in London, but it looks to have been a lot worse in the North and I have heard on the radio that [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

2nd February 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 1st February 2024 The Panel: Malcolm Offord (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Patrick Harvie (Greens) Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) Venue: Glasgow Kate Forbes (not her real name, Kate Elizabeth MacLennan), is [more…]

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Jinnie’s Story – Book Six, Chapter Fifteen

1st February 2024 Going Postal 0

Jinnie woke with a start and for a few seconds struggled to realise where she was. It was only when she saw the stewardess reading to the twins that she remembered where she was. Glancing [more…]

20th Century

Report From Israel, 1957 – Part Six

30th January 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the last of his reports. – Jerry F When an Israeli defines a civilian as a soldier on leave for eleven [more…]

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