Always Worth Saying

The Swaling, Part One

25th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

I began to obsess about Mr Reginald Stein on the evening that a party guest, a Mr Hong Gildong, tried to read Mr Stein’s Turkish rug. My wife thought him ill. Our student maid, Rose, [more…]

They say that as soon as you’ve finished writing your story then you’ve reached the point when you have to write it. They are correct. Words, like muscles, need flexed and re-used over and over [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

17th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 16th April 2020 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Rachel Clarke (Medical Expert) Lord Bilimoria (Businessman) Venue: Wolverhampton Your humble reviewer has many happy memories of Wolverhampton. Despite having time on his [more…]

Postcard from Lille Part 59

11th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

I’m at my Utopia, a community in the jungle that I have supported, a place of peace and harmony between peoples. It has been trashed. The Utopians have fought amongst themselves, wrecked the place and [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

10th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 9th April 2020 Panel: Brandon Lewis (Conservative) Rachael Reeves (Labour) Peter Openshaw (Medical Expert) Darren McGarvey (Rapper) Ruby Wax (Celebrity) Venue: Uxbridge A few years ago, I went to watch my local XI [more…]

Postcard from Lille Part 58

4th April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

I’m sitting at the edge of a thinning of the rainforest. My two tail-end Charlies are squatted beside me having just returned from an evening recce. Our other companions are making camp for the night, [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

3rd April 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 2nd April 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) Yvette Cooper-Balls (Labour) Donna Kinnair (Royal College of Nursing) John Sentamu (Clergyman) Venue: Rugby This week’s Question Time panel is in London but the questioners are [more…]

Postcard from Lille Part 57

28th March 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

A funny thing happened on the way to Lille university. Funny for the rest of us but not so funny for my wife. She got stuck in the Metro’s automatic doors. They closed on her [more…]

Postcard from Lille Part 56

21st March 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Before I start, Gisele is a flowery writer and is prone to exaggeration. Aren’t we all? She is also prone to acting on those exaggerations, therefore we must take what she says seriously. Plus, across [more…]