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Book Review: “Politics on the Edge” by Rory Stewart

19th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Like many on this blog, I’ve been in awe of AWS in his watching and reporting of Question Time each week so that we didn’t have to, and Powers’ indefatigable commentary each morning of GMB, [more…]

19th Century

Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?

12th November 2024 Going Postal 0

I suspect that all Puffins are fervently hoping that the US Presidential Election will result in the return of the Donald to the White House. If this happens, it will be an unusual but not [more…]

Biography

The Political Civil Servant

30th July 2024 Going Postal 0

On one of AWS’s recent informative pieces on Scotland, he mentioned Waverley Station in Edinburgh and I mentioned in the comments (which nobody reads) that perhaps the most versatile civil servant ever, John Anderson, took [more…]

Drinking

A nice drop of Portuguese red…

17th June 2024 Going Postal 0

For years we’ve enjoyed our annual holidays in Portugal and I have acquired a “taste” for the local red  wine which is not a particularly great seller in the UK. I thought that I’d write [more…]

Politics

Forty Years On

3rd June 2024 Going Postal 0

Forty Years On is the name of a play by Alan Bennett based on the title to the Harrow School Song. This year is forty years since the start of the Great Miners’ Strike and [more…]

19th Century

Not The Worst President

6th May 2024 Going Postal 0

“History shall be kind to me for I shall write it” wrote Sir Winston Churchill at the end of the Second World War. He had previously written a six volume history of the First World [more…]

Arts

The Eternal Fireman

25th April 2024 Going Postal 0

Years ago, the late Sir Robin Day scored such a direct hit on Mrs Thatcher’s Defence Secretary, John Nott, that he threw away his microphone and stormed off the set in mid interview after Sir [more…]

Conservatives

Landslide Elections

15th April 2024 Going Postal 0

If the opinion polls are to be believed, we are heading for a change of government with a landslide majority and I thought that it would of interest to look at when this has happened [more…]

Arts

Postcard From November, Part Six

25th May 2023 Going Postal 0

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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