Alison Thewliss | Going Postal

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

19th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 18th November 2021 The Panel: Mims Davies (Conservative) Stella Creasy (Labour) Jordan Peterson (Psycologyst and author) Stephen Flynn (Scottish National Party) Nazir Afzal (Solicitor) Venue: Beckenham Beckenham lies a mere seven miles from [more…]

The secret to a decent beef stew

11th December 2020 0

In these depressing and difficult times, it is sometimes beneficial to return to encouraging and positive subjects, and in my opinion, there is nothing quite as welcoming as “Comfort food”. A fellow Puffin signalled their [more...]
Larry’s Diary Week Eight

20th October 2019 0

Monday Unlike my prediction on Saturday, yesterday was reasonably peaceful here at Number 10. The only thing worth mentioning was that David Cameron is stirring it up again in the Sunday papers. Everyone hates a [more...]
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1960

9th October 2020 0

Featured Album: Elvis is Back This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link [more...]
Postcard from Lille, Part 19

15th June 2019 0

I can’t understand why people are rude to the staff. I was always getting told off for being kind, or even just polite, to the maids and servants, or ‘helpers’ as they were often known. I was hissed at for always saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. Enquiring politely about their families was frowned upon and helping them with their chores got the second greatest insult [more...]
Disintermediation

9th February 2020 0

My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more...]