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Harry Hotspur: The Reckless Alnwick Knight Who Outlived His Own Death
Shakespeare made him famous. The Scots gave him his nickname, which a well-known football club adopted 500 years later. This is the story of a man who lived…
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Another jumped up Mayor
To quote a certain newt-fancier named Leninspart “And I’ll tell you another PM who used to be a provincial mayor”. This of course refers to the much maligned…
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Némésis – Ch 8
Ash Shaddadi, the Syrian Governorate of Al Hasakha, December 2017 Darkness was falling and they could smell the petro-chemicals from the oilfields out to the…
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Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Forty-Seven
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. I have been looking out of the window, and it is not very nice outside. I think it is drizzling. The only problem with…
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From Then To Now
Late autumn 1962 was good to culture. The first James Bond film opened in London on 5 October. The French New Wave was at its height with the release of Cléo…
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Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Three
There was an email waiting for him when he returned, a meeting place had been agreed, it was to be at The Oval cricket ground. The message said it had been…
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1973
Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 22nd October 2026 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugendhat (Conservative) Ellie Chowns (The Green Party) Stephanie Flanders (Journalist)…
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Will Artificial Intelligence Finally Make Central Planning Work?
In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford…
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Tory Bad Boys – Part 07 Lords Lambton and Jellicoe
Two ministers in Ted Heath’s government who featured in sex and drugs scandals. If only they had known what Ted was alleged to be up to. This was exposed by…
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Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-Two
Sally found Dave sleeping on a sofa upstairs, she gently woke him. “Time to go, everything is done, you can start again in the morning.” There was a nod from…
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Damn Good Spanking
Welcome back, my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly presents yet another march of the Muscle Marys up the…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 15th October 2026 The Panel: Stephen Kinnock (Labour) Mims Davies (Conservative) James Evans (Reform UK) Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru) George…
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Bash 2027
Here we are again. For once I’ve organised the dates early enough that you can organise your summer holiday around the event of the year. Time and place…
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Tory Bad Boys – Part 06 Lord Boothby
Robert Boothby, often known as Bob, later elevated to Baron Boothby in 1958, was a Tory politician and not a particularly successful one but I remember him…
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Starlink Installation and Setup
Why? My BT broadband, including mobile is £85/month. I get a download speed of around 23Mbps and it’s not particularly reliable. The basic Starlink…
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Neutrality Referendum: We lost the battle, not the war
On 27 September, Swiss voters rejected the popular initiative to safeguard Swiss neutrality by a clear margin. Final results showed 70% voting No and only 30%…
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A View From (The Town Closest To) The Greenhouse;
I decided, as is my occasional wont, to nip into town yesterday. I intended to do a bit of shopping, get a haircut and then spend a jovial hour or so in Spoons…
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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 7)
But what if the audacious wager on the British pound had spectacularly misfired? The $10 billion borrowed to fuel the bet would have demanded repayment, a…
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John Martin: The Geordie Who Invented the Blockbuster
John Martin from Haydon Bridge made his name painting the end of the world, so convincingly that one London gallery had to put a railing round his picture to…
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Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty-One
Sitting in the car taking him to the hotel, Jane phoned “Remember, you have a meeting with Sir Rupert at 15:00 this afternoon, your first bollocking in your…
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfrOlB6pXNI Featured Album: David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars This is a series…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 8th October 2026 The Panel: Jake Richards (Labour) Harriet Cross (Conservative) Max Wilkinson (LibDem) Annabel Denham (Daily Telegraph) Kevin…
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Hari Seldon’s Maths Machine in Northamptonshire: A 100-Variable Model for Predicting the future…
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent…
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Tory Bad Boys – Part 05 John Vassall
Purists will argue that John Vassall was nothing to do with the Tories and in a sense they are right. John Vassall was a junior civil servant who spied for the…
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Let’s Talk About Tracey
I visited 3 art exhibitions over the summer. The first was the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. I shared my thoughts on that exhibition in early…
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History don’t repeat, but it sure do rhyme……..
There is a particular species of man that history keeps breeding, the way a swamp keeps breeding mosquitoes — simply because the conditions are irresistible…
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Childhood Memories
At the end of August 1939 my maternal grandmother took the decision that her children would not be evacuated because of the war. My grandfather had little say…
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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 6)
In 1988, George Soros deftly manoeuvered through the stock holdings of Société Générale, France’s banking titan, executing trades that yielded a modest $2.2…
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George Airy: The Man Who Filed the Universe
George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal for 46 years. He drew the line the whole world sets its clocks by, weighed the Earth from the bottom of a coal pit in…
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Bombs and Betrayal, Chapter Twenty
At 17:00 he was phoned with the time, 03:30 with entry into the building around 04:00. The location of the meeting point was written down. He walked along to…
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Confessions Of A Knob Botherer Part 1
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends! Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Friday –…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st Oct 2026 The Panel: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour) Julia Lopez (Conservative) Suella Braverman (Reform UK) Oli Dugmore (Journalist &…
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John Kiriakou: War, Diplomacy and What Comes Next
Part of the upcoming “World War III” documentary For many years and by many administrations, Americans have been told that endless overseas interventions…
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Tory Bad Boys Part – 04 Thomas Dugdale
I had never heard of this one but on the face of it this was a case of a minister doing the honourable thing and resigning as a result of his civil servants…
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We Have Met the Enemy…
The above is the first half of a famous cartoon quote from the early 1950’s which was reborn, so to speak, on Earth Day 1970. At the end of this short article…
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A View From (Just Inside) The Greenhouse; British Values….Innit?
The picture above, although the quality doesn’t really do it justice, is of a tomato plant (never, I hear you say). It bears a small oval(ish) fruit…
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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 5)
How did George Soros’s saga of triumph unfold from those nascent days in America? As a young émigré, he had charted a modest course: amass $500,000 in five…
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Cuthbert Collingwood: The forgotten hero of Trafalgar
Collingwood was the other admiral at Trafalgar. He was the first into the fight, took charge of the whole fleet after Nelson’s death and brought every…
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What does our nuclear deterrent actually deter
We have had a nuclear deterrent for 72 years or so. It may have deterred someone from dropping a nuclear bomb on us at some point but does it still deter…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th September 2026 The Panel: Jonathan Reynolds (Labour) Helen Whately (Conservative) Josh Barbarinde (LibDem) Andrew Neil (Journalist) Ash…
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Crossing the Atlantic, Arrival
Every morning the Chief engineer and his #2 would be having breakfast. He was a cheerful Ukrainian man and I always used to ask him, tongue in cheek, if the…
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Tory Bad Boys – Part 03 Reginald Maudling
Reggie was one of the big beasts of the Tory Party in the 50s and 60s. He was another who was hovering around the leadership along with RAB Butler. Neither of…
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Ceuta – A Bridge too Far? Part 2
Some are claiming that many of these are criminals freed by Morocco & bused to the border as a deliberate act. (This same tactic was used by Central and…
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Confidence Is Essential for a Fiat Currency
Since fiat currencies, per se, are not redeemable for anything other than themselves, their very existence depends upon confidence. The issuing authority must…
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The Neutrality Referendum
Why Switzerland must tie its politicians’ hands On the 27th of September, Swiss voters will decide on the popular initiative “Safeguarding Swiss Neutrality.”…
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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 4)
According to F. William Engdahl, a German-American political scientist and incisive commentator, George Soros secured the allegiance of 99 “sophisticated…
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Mary Ann Cotton: Four Weddings and a Lot of Funerals
The series takes its first (but not final) turn to the darker side of the North East’s historical figures. Mary Ann Cotton of Low Moorsley was the first female…
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Optimism for a change
In a world of unrelenting gloom and incompetence, much of which I blame on socialism and all things left, may I be allowed to offer a few words of optimism…
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Némésis Ch 3
Northern Iraq, December 2017 It was Sunday. Ripley had been kept awake by the wailing of the female fighters, mourning the death of the Peshmerga during the…
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: A Postcard From 1976 Pt.3
It was fifty years ago today. Well… Not quite – but close enough for rock ‘n’ roll. This article was originally scheduled to appear…
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th September 2026 The Panel: Heidi Alexander (Labour) Joy Morrissey (Conservative) Danny Kruger (Reform UK) Caroline Lucas (Green Party) Venue…
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Crossing the Atlantic, At Sea
I unpacked my belongings and noticed that outside of my cabin windows was a little orange motor boat that was lowerable down to the water via a crane that…
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Tory Bad Boys – Part 02 John Profumo
Quite possibly one of the most damaging events in the history of the Tory Party. Everything was going wrong for them, they seemed like a bunch of incompetents…
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Ceuta – A Bridge too Far?
Peruvian strongman Oscar Benavides once famously said “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law.” Once, such a thing might have provided a succinct…
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What It Means to Be an American
There is a very big difference between being an American and a citizen of any other nation We often hear that Americans are special. We may even say that…
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A View From (The Plot By) The Greenhouse; Unintended Consequence?
It’s getting near the end of the original planting of potatoes. The original idea was to do a second planting, in between the rows that had already been…
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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 3)
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, the firm where George Soros honed his craft from 1963 to 1973, was a fusion of two venerable German institutions. The first…
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Thomas Bewick: the Northumbrian who made his mark
Thomas Bewick redrew every bird in Britain on blocks of boxwood the size of a beer mat, hid some very rude jokes in the margins of a natural history book, and…
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In praise of red wine
Way back in the 70s or it might even have been the 60s, the French Wine Industry insisted that red wine was really good for you. I took this to heart, forget…