Book Review
Book review: The Wager, by David Grann
Every so often, a book comes along which just knocks your socks off. You want to recommend it to everybody and buy it for all your friends. This is one of those! The Wager is [more…]
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Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd April 2025 The Panel: Sir Chris Bryant (Labour) Mims Davies (Conservative) Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru) Emily Sheffield (Columnist & Broadcaster) Shavanah Taj (Trade Unionist) Venue: Cardiff We just keep on winning [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th March 2025 The Panel: Darren Jones (Labour) Richard Holden (Conservative) Daisy Cooper (LibDem) Camilla Tominey (Journalist) Gary Stevenson (Economist) Venue: Dartford Earlier on Question Time Review, 27th March, Dartford: Remember when the [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 20th March 2025 The Panel: Steve Reed (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Richard Bacon (Broadcaster) Fraser Nelson (Columnist) Greg Swenson (Republicans Overseas) Venue: Reading Steve Reed OBE is Labour MP for Croydon North and [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 13th March 2025 The Panel: Emma Reynolds (Labour) Luke Evans (Conservative) Wendy Chamberlain (LibDem) Faiza Shaheen (Economist & Activist) Konstantin Kisin (Podcaster & author) Venue: Wolverhampton Is there a method to Trump’s madness [more…]
America
Richard Phillips Feynman
Recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico under J Robert Oppenheimer, Feynman was also tasked with co-ordinating research and development between Los Alamos and the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee. [more…]
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Briefs Encounter – A reappraisal
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th February 2025 The Panel: Michael Shanks (Labour) Russel Findlay (Conservative) Kate Forbes (SNP) Lorna Slater (Green) Alex Massie (Journalist) Venue: Glasgow An outbreak of journalism on this week’s Question Time, or at [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th January 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Kieran Mullan (Conservative) Helen Morgan (LibDem) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Alison Phillips (Journalist) Venue: Melton Mowbray They’re doing me out of a job. Early to [more…]