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A Natural End to The Human Experience?

26th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 2249 Comments

On the other week’s BBC Question Time from Rotherham, when the subject turned to ‘assisted dying’, a gentleman in the audience commented politics and religion do not mix and religion should be kept out of [more…]

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Postcard From The Scottish Reformation

15th June 2024 Always Worth Saying 2356 Comments

I have a strange sensation in my trousers while strolling Edinburgh’s Royal Mile arm in arm with Mrs AWS. Behave yourselves. Regular readers will be unsurprised to learn my work colleagues pay me not to [more…]

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A Gem From The Golden Age of Coffee

17th February 2024 Always Worth Saying 2077 Comments

Despite finding San Salvador to be a much more pleasant place than expected, we shall strike into the provinces and catch our breath in a guest room in the sticks. En route, we shall allow [more…]

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Rail Trails

8th April 2021 Joe Slater 3435 Comments

More notes from 45 years of cycling In its day, Tinsley Marshalling Yard in Sheffield was the world’s most advanced railway-wagon sorting centre. It specialised in computerised hump-shunting, which is not a fetish category on [more…]

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Steeple-chasing

1st April 2021 Joe Slater 2114 Comments

Whenever anybody says Britain has the best TV or the best health service in the world, I tend to bridle. I have seen a fair bit of TV overseas, and have found it much the [more…]

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A Christmas Trip to Remember

16th December 2020 Going Postal 2076 Comments

Mum, Dad, Big Brother and I were off to stay with my aunt and uncle in a small Yorkshire village for Christmas. I had passed my driving test about a year earlier and was to [more…]

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What does it take to be a man?

27th January 2020 Rookwood 3643 Comments

Apart from the song by the US band Boston, who sadly managed to enthusiastically embrace the “Touchy feely” spectrum ruining an otherwise excellent song, this is a genuine question. In this age of mass gender [more…]

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Going to Church

28th January 2018 rattuscatchus 1795 Comments

As a nipper, I was brought up in what was a fairly typical, English family. Mum, Dad, siblings and normal sorts of stuff. We were what I call typical Church of England. We all went [more…]

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