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The Swaling, Part Two
Miss Ng was a council house kid of sorts. Her family rented from Mr Lee’s Housing and Development Board. A truly Utopian organisation, it leased affordable property in projects that contained any and all of [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 30th April 2020 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Jeane Freeman (Scotish National Party) Sir Paul Nurse (Medical Expert) George Osborne (Journalist) Venue: Leeds Surgeon General, and inventor of the syringe, Nobel [more…]
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The Swaling, Part One
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…]
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Postcard from Lille Valete
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…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
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…]
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Postcard from Lille Part 59
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…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
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…]
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Postcard from Lille Part 58
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…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
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…]