In recent weeks we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by summer riots, 1980s football matches and pop concerts, the Falkland Islands and even the delivery of mail to the South Pole at Christmas. Puffins [more…]
Question Time 26th September 2024 The Panel: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) Carla Denya (Green) Zia Yusuf (Reform UK) Venue: Milton Keynes Recent events in law have allowed the discerning reviewer to peer into [more…]
There are two schools of thought, volunteer for everything, never volunteer for anything. I knew a chap sent to the South Atlantic. At Mount Pleasant airfield in what the Guinness Book of Records describes as [more…]
Question Time 19th September 2024 The Panel: Lucy Powell (Labour) Graham Stewart (Conservative) Tim Farron (LibDem) Mariana Mazzucato (Economist) Jill Kirby (Journalist) Venue: Ashton-Under-Lyne The programme began with Fiona Bruce saying a very strange thing. [more…]
Earlier this year, as my wife and I passed Birmingham’s Town Hall during our day trip from the North, we hummed Mendelssohn’s Elijah which debuted in the city’s triennial music festival of 1846. At that [more…]
Last time we looked at the early career of Jimmy Tarbuck. We noted his success hinged upon – or was at least boosted by – a cheeky-chappy persona, quick wit, smart suits and a mop-top [more…]
Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]
Busy times for Mrs Francis Killen. The adverts had been placed. The VIPs were on their way. The early weeks of 1960 saw her guests begin to converge on Merseyside. If her curly-wired bakelite GPO [more…]
There should be a law against circular railway stations, especially those with exits at each point of the compass. The danger is, once outside, visitors don’t know where they are or in what direction they’re [more…]
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