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Ships That Pass

22nd November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Two Rascals I looked down on a thunderstorm. The distant lights of late evening Manhattan were being complimented. Clouds beneath me luminesced with staccato lightning flashes above a rain-lashed Long Island. 1988 had ended badly. [more…]

Postcard From The World Trade Center

14th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Noticeable by a distinctive crown feature atop an impressive fifty stories, the Woolworth Building sits at 233 Broadway in the Lower Manhattan financial district of New York City. Built as the headquarters of F W [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

21st February 2020 0

Question Time 20th February 2020 Panel: George Eustice (Conservative) Alison McGovern (Labour) Howard Davies (Economist) Ash Sarkar (Journalist) Michael Portillo (Broadcaster) Venue: Weymouth If you think that your humble reviewer was bitter and twisted about [more...]
The Coventry Carol

22nd December 2021 0

Several oil-on-oak-panel versions of The Massacre of the Innocents were painted by 16th-century Netherlandish painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The work translates the Biblical account of the Massacre [more...]
Joe Malone, Part Four

12th February 2019 0

An attractive blonde had surprised Private Eye Joe Malone as he was resting his hangover. She was standing in his Investigator’s office. Surveying him and her surroundings. Not quite sure if this oddly antique office [more...]
Film Review : Breakfast at Tiffany’s

9th March 2021 0

Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s — loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name — was a showcase for Audrey Hepburn in her acting prime. (Ironically, Capote championed giving the [more...]
Book Review: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

23rd September 2021 0

This is the second novel by Stuart Turton, his first being the excellent The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, which I reviewed a few months ago. Turton has created another ‘whodunit’ story, this time on [more...]