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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

7th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 2690 Comments

Question Time 6th February 2025 The Panel: Michael Shanks (Labour) Russel Findlay (Conservative) Kate Forbes (SNP) Lorna Slater (Green) Alex Massie (Journalist) Venue: Glasgow An outbreak of journalism on this week’s Question Time, or at [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-Nine

24th November 2024 Going Postal 3352 Comments

Monday Good morning and welcome to another week of my diary. Today is the 11th, the real Armistice Day, and Palestinians are threatening to disrupt services around the country. Legohead is off to Paris to [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

3rd February 2023 Always Worth Saying 2881 Comments

Question Time 2nd February 2023 The Panel: John Lamont (Conservative) Ian Murray (Labour) Jenny Gilruth (SNP) Ella Whelan (Journalist) India Willoughby (Broadcaster) Venue: Glasgow If Westminster is a village then I’m forced to concede to [more…]

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A Postcard Frae Glesgae

19th April 2022 Colin Cross 2540 Comments

Over the last few weeks I’ve had occasion to visit Glasgow on two occasions, one for an overnight stay and the second time primarily to visit Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery. The happy circumstance of my [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; This Sporting Life

22nd March 2022 Colin Cross 3388 Comments

Life carries on much as normal, given the increasingly bizarre times we live in. The weather, thankfully, has picked up and jobs that have been on hold for a couple of weeks have risen to [more…]

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The story of Matilda (Revised)

11th November 2021 Going Postal 2878 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the third, where I try to list the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Eighteen

7th November 2021 Going Postal 3869 Comments

Monday Morning merry readers, another week of reporting stretches ahead of me. I have been eating my breakfast and listening to the radio. I do wish Bozzie would stick to one station. I just get [more…]

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Apollo 13 (Revised)

4th November 2021 Going Postal 4342 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the second, on that well-known danger to Life [more…]

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Ice Station Zero (Revisited)

28th October 2021 Going Postal 2192 Comments

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them. Here’s the first, which I’ve named after an Alistair [more…]

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