20th Century
Postcard From Innsbruck
Zurück in den Tag Am I allowed to say that back in the day I loved Austria? Yes, it was too expensive, yes it was full of unrepentant Nazis, and yes the whole place was [more…]
Always Worth Saying
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd November 2022 The Panel: Chris Philp (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Stuart Rose (Asda) Zany Minton Beddoes (The Economist) George the Poet (Spoken-word artist) Venue: Horsham George The Poet, not his real name, [more…]
20th Century
Postcard From West Germany
Donaueschingen Strict privacy laws and the German people’s well-practiced challenges to any risk posed to that privacy means that Street View isn’t available in the Federal Republic. Identifying the locations of old photographs, in this [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 27th October 2022 The Panel: David Lammy (Labour) Julia Hartley-Brewer (Journalist) Armando Iannucci (Writer) Late arrival: Lucy Frazer (Conservative) Venue: Dulwich Never mind that. It’s my birthday. On the premise that if you [more…]
20th Century
Deluge at Lynmouth
Over breakfast on the morning of Friday, August 15th 1952, readers of the letters page of the Ilfracombe Chronicle and North Devon News may have noticed the following correspondence from a Mr Cuthbert Burgoyne of [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 20th October 2022 The Panel: Graham Stewart (Conservative) Jess Phillips (Labour) Tony Danker (CBI) Cornelia Parker (Artist) Camila Cavendish (Journalist) Venue: Cheltenham This is what a coup d’état looks like. The WEF and [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Seine Bridges
As we reach the end of our 1952 Nostalgia Album adventure to Gibraltar and back, my father and his parents remain at the top of the Eiffel Tower gazing at the more distant of the [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, The Trocadero
On their Nostalgia Album 1952 road trip, my father and his parents have reached the top of the Eiffel Tower en route to Carlisle after visiting Aunty Lil in Gibraltar and taking in the healing [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th October 2022 The Panel: Nadim Zahawi (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Brian Cox (Actor) Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Businessman) Piers Morgan (Broadcaster) Venue: Westminster How long will Liz Truss be able to continue as Prime [more…]