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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-Three

24th August 2025 Going Postal 2017 Comments

Monday Good morning, my good friends, and it’s a lovely morning, warm and sunny. I was intrigued to read that the Tories put in a Freedom of Information request to find out the actual cost [more…]

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The Bell Hotel, Epping

22nd August 2025 Always Worth Saying 2778 Comments

A disappointed migrant sits in his hotel room. England is not as he expected. A bee lodges in his bonnet. He puts pen to paper and troubles the letters page of a London newspaper. Here’s [more…]

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Command Economies

21st August 2025 well_chuffed 2485 Comments

After a once in a lifetime budget that was designed to promote growth, fill a fictitious £22 billion black hole and encourage new jobs, what are we left with, little to no growth, a £50 [more…]

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Control freakery

18th August 2025 well_chuffed 2418 Comments

When I worked in Kuwait we were joined by three Polish programmers. Two really were programmers, the third was there to keep an eye on the other two. He was expected to work as a [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-Two

17th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 2429 Comments

Monday Good morning, my good friends, and it… guess what, it’s drizzling here in London, I could have predicted that with a Test match to be won. I saw that Angel Eagle doing the rounds [more…]

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In Like Zinc

15th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 3046 Comments

Going-Postal’s old friends in the shadowy world of contractors used to disseminate government propaganda are back in the news. This particular practitioner of the dark arts of perception management and black propaganda came to Puffin’s [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Ninety-One

10th August 2025 Going Postal 2562 Comments

Monday Good morning, friend, and it is a very pleasant one—dry, warm, and sunny. Legohead is off to Scottishland later to talk to the Donald, who is over to open a new golf course, so [more…]

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Dreading The Weekend

8th August 2025 Always Worth Saying 2758 Comments

The Prime Minister and Cabinet are dreading this weekend. Why so, and how do we know?
 Because they keep on telling us, not least via endless references to a summer of discontent brought to us [more…]

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A View From (Inside) The Greenhouse; A Taste Of Englishness

5th August 2025 Colin Cross 2508 Comments

As we get nearer to the end of the growing season the house has taken on a verdant if somewhat chaotic aspect. Normally, by now, the green would be interspersed with shades of red, orange, [more…]

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