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Swan Song

17th October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

I’m plodding through Earl Spencer’s Swan Song so that you don’t have to. Likewise, almost a century ago, my infant father and his parents visited the Earls’ in-laws’ Norfolk home at Sandringham and took photographs [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

16th October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 15th October 2026 The Panel: Stephen Kinnock (Labour) Mims Davies (Conservative) James Evans (Reform UK) Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru) George Monbiot (Writer & commentator) Venue: Brecon Stephen Kinnock is a hereditary trougher. The [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 8th October 2026 The Panel: Jake Richards (Labour) Harriet Cross (Conservative) Max Wilkinson (LibDem) Annabel Denham (Daily Telegraph) Kevin Maguire (Daily Mirror) Venue: Peterlee ‘Jake’ Richards is the Labour MP for Rother Valley [more…]

New Realities in Old Holborn

3rd October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Old Holborn Between 1983 and 2015, the Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras was northerner Frank Dobson. A railwayman’s son from York, Dobson was a grammar school boy and economics graduate. After leaving the [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

2nd October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 1st Oct 2026 The Panel: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour) Julia Lopez (Conservative) Suella Braverman (Reform UK) Oli Dugmore (Journalist & Commentator) Venue: Tottenham One of the Garden of England Fahnbulleh’s, posh Miatta was educated [more…]

Postcard From Jerry, Part Seven

26th September 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

‘Shabby!’ Myself, my assistant Miss Blod, and a diminutive figure in Muslim dress, who has just revealed her face with a swipe of a delicate brown arm, are at the bottom of the fire stairs [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th September 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 24th September 2026 The Panel: Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Josh Barbarinde (LibDem) Andrew Neil (Journalist) Ash Sarkar (Political commentator) Venue: Cambridge A graduate of the London School of Economics with a [more…]

Postcard From Jerry, Part Six

19th September 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

A perspiring Prime Minister called for coffee time at Number 10 North. My companion, Miss Blod, and I circulated, made small talk and nodded. There seemed little need for any great subterfuge, despite the fact [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

18th September 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 17th September 2026 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) Joy Morrissey (Conservative) Danny Kruger (Reform UK) Caroline Lucas (Green Party) Venue: Salisbury For once the interesting member of the family, rather than the dullard, [more…]