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What’s special about special needs?

22nd July 2025 Going Postal 0

The Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, has promised a statement on Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) in the autumn. The driver is largely money. Local authorities have retained financial responsibility for SEND [more…]

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Playing With Electricity – Part 4

9th July 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Damn You Morus Nigra! ‘John Swerved as Mary, Queen of Scots, was busy with her throne but it wouldn’t flush so her face turned to stone when Jane put her hand on John’s gear stick [more…]

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Digitising Old Cine Films

7th July 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

5th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

One tires of the streetcars of Paramaribo, the mineral railways of the Amazon, and even of rural Albania in the 1980s. Railway Review’s roving reportage shall change continents and seek excitement (but not too much) [more…]

19th Century

Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

Hobbies

Playing With Electricity – Part 3

25th June 2025 Doc Mike Finnley 0

“Your nose will grow…” I’m sure that we can all recall some of these admonitions from our youth: “Keep looking like that and your face will stick!” – Why? To what? Surely that isn’t in [more…]

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Digitising Old Audio Tapes

23rd June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 0

There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]

Health

Why are we living longer

16th June 2025 well_chuffed 0

The statistics don’t lie. For some reason we are living much longer than previous generations, but why. Surely it cannot be down to rNHS, they seem to want us all dead as does this rubbish [more…]

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The Case For SMR Hesitancy

14th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

As Energy Secretary Ed Milliband’s Net Zero cultural revolution gathers pace, this week he announced a nuclear renaissance. A new £14bn reactor is planned for Sizewell. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are being championed through a [more…]

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