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The Lighthouse of The Pacific
Leaving the Pan-American highway and heading west beyond the urban sprawl of second city Santa Ana, we follow the route of the El Salvador Railway Company’s Ahuachapan branch line which we discovered last time. Nothing [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd March 2022 The Panel: Penny Mordaunt (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Konstantin Kisin (Commentator) Bridget Kendall (Journalist) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Gary Neville (Pundit) Venue: Norwich What can be done about Ukraine, short of [more…]
Science
Ukraine’s Javelin, NLAW and TB-2
Javelin Javelin is an infrared (ie heat-seeking) guided anti-tank missile system. A previous generation of anti-tank missiles were wire-guided via a ‘semi-automatic command to line of sight’ (or SACLOS) system where the operator had to [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 13th September 2001 The Panel: Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat) Tam Dalyell (Labour) Philip Lader (US Ambassador to London) Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist) Venue: London In the first part of this Christmas break Question Time [more…]
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Glesga Gang Goings-on Bloodbath
Having put Apsana Begum MP’s Bengali Benefits bother to bed, GP’s Bloodbath investigative team retired to the couch, hoping never again to be involved in the likes of Tower Hamlets and its South Asian political, [more…]
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GB News Review
GB News 22nd July 2021 Present: Ian Wright (Food and Drinks Confederation) Pierre-Henri Duman (Republican MP for Calais) Peter Marx (Late-night venue operator) Monty Panesar (Retired cricketer) Venue: Farage Your humble author was thrilled to [more…]
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The Swaling, Episode Sixty Two
I’m in the lobby of an Islington apartment block. Natasha has directed me and my ward, a wet and dripping pushchair containing a toddler called Jakey, to the lift. Too small for the three of [more…]
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The Question Time That Never Was
Panel: John Bercow (Former Speaker of the House of Commons) David Davis (Conservative) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Sir Rupert Soames (Businessman) Venue: The Cutting Room Floor The most recent complete series of BBC Question Time consisted [more…]