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No guest houses in Penrose Terrace now, and hardly any in the town! No newsagents now, either, WH Smith and the supermarkets are the only newspaper purveyors. I didn't know about that Stanhope Forbes painting. He is my favourite of the Newlyn School painters, with Abbey Slip and Basin my...

I honestly can't imagine one single person, other than the woman herself, who would have had that reaction if she'd been 'turned away.' I very much doubt she'd have made it public either in those circumstances. She'd have gone into well-deserved obscurity a few weeks or months before it was...

Remembering that the infamous Conservative MP Enoch Powell seemed on the point of defecting to Labour during the course of Ted Heath's Tory government of 1970-74, I decided to refresh my memory by consulting Wikipedia on the subject. In the end, of course, it never happened, though he did stand...

How many extra voters will Labour gain at the General Election as a result of this cynical move? A handful at most, I'd suggest, even in Dover. On the other hand, it might well lose both existing Labour voters and some who might otherwise have voted Labour. I've just heard on the news that Neil...

Carpetright, a private company, have announced a 25% cut in head office (Thurrock) jobs following two years of increasing losses, but no other jobs as yet, the Times reported today.

Who's next? Liz Truss???<( It's an absolute travesty that Labour have accepted Elphicke's 'conversion', which is about as honest as Russell Brand's. Loads of Labour backbenchers must be spitting with rage, and not just those on the Left either. Why do Labour appear so weak they'll accept just...

They could always market it as 'the route the Beatles would have used if they'd been in the area.' ;)

We like to call it a 'working town'. Not even a Cornish cream tea on offer. Actually, trying to get any cup of tea after 4.30 p.m.....:smile:

It's more because manufacturers are being forced by government dictate to sell a certain percentage of electric vehicles within their overall sales figures on pain of being fined thousands of pounds for each non-electric sale if that % isn't reached. Sounds like the sort of thing the Chinese...

The news stand outside Kings Cross station was manned, with a good selection of magazines to add to the first edition newspapers. Used it a lot in the 1970s and 1980s.

Increased budgets both below general inflation and the increase in population levels, while refusing to recognise the effects of an ever-ageing population and the added responsibilities of the NHS every year, are hardly worth producing like rabbits out of hats, I believe the late magician Paul...

There are so many things to ponder, but it appears the Tory MPs (and Ministers) planning to unseat Sunak before the election is called have acknowledged it isn't going to happen. There are two main reasons for this. The first was that they didn't wait for the West Midlands Mayoral result, having...

Comparing percentage rates of GDP spent on healthcare between countries shows the U.K. consistently much lower than Germany, France, the EU14 average and the G7 average, and a little lower than Canada's. We do, however, score above Italy's world famous system.:!:

Hear hear!

Quite a while indeed - I'd suggest since the trams were bombed out of existence during the Second World War! I'd also suggest that the City Council not running their own bus services at a time when virtually every other city of its size did has had an adverse influence ever since, with a...

Well, thanks v much for that. It must have been the one I bought, but I was probably disappointed by the material on it. I never bought another of his records again, though I believe he was more successful in the UK than the USA as the 1960s progressed. He was a guitarist with a unique...

''Major incident''? Hyperbole!

When the great guitarist Duane Eddy dies and you remember the first EP (Extended Play) record you ever bought back in 1961 was by him. He was the ''King of Twang'' and my EP was called, I think, ''The Twang's the Thang'', though I might just be imagining that!

I'll settle for what actually happened, particularly as the West Midlands Police had (disgracefully, imo) announced just before Polling Day that they were investigating a complaint from a Tory MP that Richard Parker, the Labour candidate in that Mayoral election, may have broken electoral law by...

If it's June 27th, then my prediction earlier that the G.E. would take place in the first half of the year would prove true!