Business
Where Gary Neville Comes From
‘It’s a fact of life that where we come from is important. I used to lie in bed thinking about themes where I could address the players that would make an impact on them. I [more…]
Always Worth Saying
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th October 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Zack Polanski (Green Party) Annabel Denham (Journalist) Venue: Shrewsbury We have a first. After all these years of [more…]
Authoritarianism
To Digital ID or Not to Digital ID?
Above, my mother’s ID card from back in the day. House points to any Puffin who can tell us when, where and why. The prime ministerial launch Meanwhile, decades later and across the waters, Prime [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd October 2025 The Panel: Hilary Benn (Labour) Alex Burghart (Conservative) Jonathan Buckley (DUP) John Finucane (Sinn Fein) Aoife Moore (Journalist) Venue: Belfast Hilary Benn (not his real name, Hilary James Wedgwood-Benn) has [more…]
19th Century
Today’s 200th Anniversary of The Railway
This weekend sees the 200th anniversary of railways – or at least of the first steam locomotive-hauled passenger service, which took place on the Stockton to Darlington railway 200 years ago today (27th September). On [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th September 2025 The Panel: Lisa Nandy (Labour) Luke Evans (Conservative) Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Billy Bragg (Musician and activist) Venue: Bedworth Lisa Nandy is on Question Time too [more…]
Culture
Of Gods And Terminuses
We’re at the front of the queue on platform one in the concrete trench that is Euston terminus, tipped off early by the steward in the first-class lounge as to which platform we’d be departing [more…]
19th Century
Peter Mandelson – Something In The Genes?
Speaking at the launch of his memoir The Third Man, Life at The Heart of New Labour, which he only finished writing two weeks earlier, Peter Mandelson said, ‘It was a high wire act. Now [more…]
19th Century
The Shock of The Modern
Besides excitement and trauma, might the shock of the new also provide a synapse re-ordering adrenaline burst that remodels the brain? As a little boy the make-believe near-future modernist world of Thunderbirds (and the like) [more…]