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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

27th February 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 26th February 2026 The Panel: Lisa Nandy (Labour) Alicia Kearns (Conservative) Jess Brown-Fuller (LibDem) Tom Kerridge (Chef) Esther Krakue (Journalist) Venue: Birmingham Ghanaian Esther Krakue came to Britain with her parents when she [more…]

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Shabana Mahmood. Avoid.

22nd November 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

As only the third female Lord Chancellor since Eleanor of Provence in 1253, upon being elevated to the role 771 years later present Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, eulogised during her acceptance speech. “I must say [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Eight

20th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning all, it was very wet in London when I hurried down the garden this morning. I was delighted to find Felix Chicken in my bowl when I got back. I hear that [more…]

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Zarah Sultana. Avoid.

11th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Appropriately born on Halloween 1993 in Lozells, Birmingham, to a Muslim family of Pakistani heritage, Zarah Sultana is one of four sisters, her grandfather having emigrated from Maipur in the 1960s. Sultana attended Holte School [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Two

25th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s a bit cloudy this morning and I see, according to the forecast, it’s going to rain in London later this morning. Legohead held a presser this morning to [more…]

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Enemies Within: Mouchard!

7th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]

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Enemies Within, Part Four

30th November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

In late February of 1894, a far-fetched tale appeared in the London penny dreadful newspapers. It concerned the untimely death of an anarchist, Martial Bourdin, blown up by his own bomb near the Royal Observatory [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Seven

12th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Shall we climb the Minecraft Library of Birmingham as far as Mrs AWS’s iffy-with-heights wobbly legs will take her? Find a balcony and enjoy the vista? Yes, we will, and we’ll take a few photos [more…]

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