Arts
Postcard From Edinburgh
Gentleman and lady travellers of a certain age may be divided into two tribes: Princess or Market. I’ve always been a Princess man. Let me explain. Arrival at Edinburgh Waverley always drew me up the [more…]
Always Worth Saying
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 23rd May 2024 The Panel: Mark Spencer (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Ash Sarkar (Broadcaster) Daisy Cooper (LiberalDemocrat) Tim Montgomerie (Broadcaster) Venue: Coventry The other morning, embarrassingly north of 7:30 am, [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From Peter Hitchens, Part Five
I’ve been following Daily Mail columnist and author Peter Hitchens – literally. The surprise being we only recently fell into correspondence. Both of us are keen on railways and church, enjoyed minor public school and [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 16th May 2024 The Panel: Meghan Gallagher (Conservative) Anas Sarwar (Labour) Stephen Flynn (SNP) Alex Salmond (Alba) Iain Dale (Broadcaster) Venue: Aberdeen Meghan Gallacher is currently Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and [more…]
20th Century
Going-Postal Eurovision Song Contest Special
Who could have thought in the middle years of the twentieth century that the then-nascent Eurovision Song Contest could, a mere seven decades hence, be described by serious commentators as ‘noncing s***’? Albeit the commentator [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 9th May 2024 The Panel: Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Grace Blakeley (Author) Humphrey Cobbold (CEO of PureGym) Venue: Stoke-on-Trent Lisa Nandy is on Question Time too often. Tonight’s appearance takes her [more…]
Arts
Television’s Albertstein Monster
End of the old endboards Gone are the days when television programmes finished with a caption proclaiming ‘Granada, From The North’ or a plummy continuity announcer saying, ‘Mike Yarwood is appearing in summer season in [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 2nd May 2024 The Panel: Bim Afolami (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Kirsty Blackman (SNP) Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) Anita Boateng (Former Conservative advisor) Venue: Cambridge The great thing about having your own [more…]
20th Century
Honourable Members
As everyone knows, the Cold War was won by minor public school boys with bad degrees from embarrassing new universities. Sat on the banks of the Danube they sketched Czech freight trains disguised as if [more…]