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The Shame of Our Cities, Part Two

4th February 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

Looting, pillage, theft, billions in disbursements, all on the honour system We are all Somalis now In Minnesota, the bear hug of American liberal virtue, with its self-congratulatory sense of generosity and its lack of [more…]

America

The Shame of Our Cities, Part One

28th January 2026 Going Postal 0

Looting, pillage, theft, billions in disbursements, all on the honour system We are all Somalis now In the autumn glare reflecting off the harsh glass façade of the Minneapolis public library, temporary fencing encloses a [more…]

Christianity

Christmas at Christmas With Christmas

27th December 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Spending Christmas at Christmas with Christmas sounds a very Puffin thing to do. First of all, we’ll have to decide when to meet. The eagle-eyed among you may point out that we’ve missed our chance, [more…]

Christianity

Changed Times? Part Two

28th June 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Despite claims of a cover-up that cost Archbishop of Canterbury Welby his job, close to the time of the scandalous behaviour of Evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth, the following appeared in the February 1989 biography [more…]

20th Century

Changed Times?

21st June 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]

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Leo XIV and Rerum Novarum

11th June 2025 Going Postal 0

Upon his elevation, the new pope announced that he had assumed the name of Leo XIV.  For those familiar with Leo XIII, this was a signal that the principles of Leo XIII as expressed in [more…]

20th Century

Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
 [more…]

Christianity

An Appreciation Of The Papacy of Francis I

3rd May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]

21st Century

Always Worth Saying’s Easter Railway Review

18th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]

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