Always Worth Saying

Filth!

19th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Nothing spoils a joke more than having to explain it. There are six rules of humour. No there aren’t, there are eleven types of comedy. That’s not true, there are nine ways to make people [more…]

Ordinarily, the High Commissioner’s residence looks like a two-tiered colonial wedding cake, all Wedgwood coloured walls and white embellishments. Especially so when seen by moon and burning torch light during the British Mission’s much anticipated [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

16th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 15th October 2020 Panel: Douglas Ross (Conservative) Seema Malhotra (Labour) Kate Forbes (SNP) Miriam Brett (Economic Adviser) Ian wood (Businessman) Mark Walport (Scientist) Venue: Edinburgh Old friend of QT Review, Marcus Rashford, has [more…]

The Swaling, Part Twenty Four

10th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Singapore being a Commonwealth country the British Embassy was really a High Commission and the Ambassador, a High Commissioner. Since both high commissioners and ambassadors are addressed as ‘Your Excellency’, myself, my wife Nicole and [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

9th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 8th October 2020 Panel: Gillian Keegan (Conservative) Andy Burnham (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) Michael Portillo (Broadcaster) Yanis Varoufakis (Economist and Greek Politician) Venue: Coventry In Westminster politics, Coventry is a [more…]

The Swaling, Part Twenty Three

3rd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Singapore. Forward Singapore! Everybody’s favourite piece of squashed diamond real estate, 31 miles by 17 miles, lies fashionably 200 miles south-east of Kuala Lumpur and 70 north of Sumatra. Here Malays, Chinese, South Asians, and [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

2nd October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 1st October 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Helen Stokes-Lampard (GP) Stuart Rose (Businessman) David Linden (SNP) Venue: Carlisle Question Time began its celebration of black history month in the best [more…]

The Swaling, Part Twenty Two

26th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th September 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 24th September 2020 Panel: Alok Sharma (Conservative) Louise Haigh (Labour) Sir Edward Davy (Liberal Democrat) Peter Borg-Neal (Businessman) Devi Sridhar (Public Health Official) Shappi Khorsandi (Comedian) Venue: Chingford The present MP for Chingford [more…]