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The Sunday Post: A Confirmed Bachelor Boy

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by Petunia Winegum on March 1, 2015

Watching ‘Wolf Hall’ this week, I was reminded of how Thomas Cromwell settled a few old scores when inventing evidence to condemn the luckless Anne Boleyn to a date with the executioner. He trawled through a list

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Confessions of a Crying Wolf

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by Petunia Winegum on February 25, 2015

Confess! Confess! Confess! Hell, the Spanish Inquisition would have a far easier time of it today; back in the fifteenth century, they had to torture in order to grind out confessions; these days, people are queuing up

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The Sunday Post: Eye Weren’t Even There, Guv!

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by Petunia Winegum on February 22, 2015

Richard Ingrams once described Peter Cook as a conservative anarchist. The one-time editor of ‘Private Eye’ also regarded himself as such; it’s a canny label that expertly summarises the curious contradiction inherent within those sons of the

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Cammin’ over ‘ere – Takin’ our Mansions!

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by Petunia Winegum on February 20, 2015

Mayfair – a cosseted corner of England preserved in Edwardian amber, national exposure to which is guaranteed to bring out the worst inverted snobbery and chip-on-the-shoulder socialism of anyone from a working-class background. Who cares about these

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Don’t Read All About It

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by Petunia Winegum on February 19, 2015

Peter Oborne is not someone whose every word I either hang onto or agree with; but every now and again the recently resigned Chief Political Commentator of the Daily Telegraph, associate-editor of The Spectator, and occasional TV presenter makes a

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Playing the Race (Music) Card

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by Petunia Winegum on February 18, 2015

In ‘All You Need is Cash’, Eric Idle’s 1978 spoof documentary on his spoof Beatles, The Rutles, there’s a scene in which Idle as an inept interviewer grills a veteran bluesman called Ruttling Orange Peel; Mr Peel claims

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The Cruel Sea

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by Petunia Winegum on February 17, 2015

Hard to imagine such a scenario as you rest your flabby western butt on a comfy sofa and tear your hair out because you can’t find the latest must-see series as recommended by The Guardian on Netflix,

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Sorry Seems To Be The Easiest Word

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by Petunia Winegum on February 11, 2015

In the past few weeks, a proposal has been aired by several prominent public figures to ‘begin a discussion about pardoning all the men, alive or deceased, who like Alan Turing were convicted under the UK’s Gross

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Someone’s Looking at You

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by Petunia Winegum on February 10, 2015

Zirndorf is a seemingly nondescript German village on the outskirts of Nuremberg; in the foreboding shadow of a city that owes its location on the map of European history to grandiose public pronouncements of Aryan supremacy, Zirndorf is probably

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Wilde Thing

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by Petunia Winegum on February 9, 2015

It may sometimes seem like we are living through an age of finger-pointing paranoia unprecedented since the Taliban-esque era of the post-Civil War Puritans; but we have been here more recently, and a couple of centuries closer

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The Man with the Child in His Eyes

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by Petunia Winegum on February 5, 2015

A little girl kisses a melancholy man – the kind of sugary, sentimental image so beloved of the Victorian bourgeoisie and a variation on a theme that clings to the coat-tails of the twenty-first century as a nauseating mainstay

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I Think, Therefore I Am (A Pervert)

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by Petunia Winegum on February 3, 2015

Everyone reading this will have at some time been guilty of an occasional ‘unnatural sexual proclivity’. Don’t try and deny it, you dirty sods. You got away with it, as well. How do you sleep at night,

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The Sunday Post: Land of Hope and Stories

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by Petunia Winegum on February 1, 2015

Memories of how the world appeared when our eyes first looked out on it tend to form enduring impressions so that each change to this original template, whether the dress sense of pedestrians, the design of cars

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When Yes Means No

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by Petunia Winegum on January 30, 2015

A Victorian man denied his conjugal rights by his Victorian wife finally snaps and takes possession of his property in a manner the law tells him he is perfectly entitled to. From her perspective, it is not

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Turn Left at Athens

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by Petunia Winegum on January 29, 2015

Something of significance happened in Greece this week, an event that marked the end of an era, the passing of an age and a sign of the times. Demis Roussos died. One hopes the singing tent, who so

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Let There Be Light

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by Petunia Winegum on January 27, 2015

It could easily be dismissed as a cinematic myth, but I’m pretty damn sure it’s true that early Hollywood westerns simplified the distinction between hero and villain by cladding the good guys in light colours and the bad

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For All Its Faults…

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by Petunia Winegum on January 23, 2015

A detailed description of what happens when a man minding his own business collides with an Israeli air-strike in Gaza can paint remarkable pictures in the mind of the listener. I was exposed to just such a

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Victoria’s Daughters and the Fine Line of Time

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by Petunia Winegum on January 22, 2015

Many might think the complete and definitive history of the Victorian age has already been written; after all, there have been plenty of books and television documentaries filling the shelves and schedules since the old Queen died

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I Know Thee Not, Old Man

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by Petunia Winegum on January 20, 2015

Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons; if there happens to be any long-term tension within the family unit, more often than not the tension arises from strained relations between two males or two females. It becomes especially

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What the Papers Said

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by Petunia Winegum on January 13, 2015

Who can forget it? I certainly can’t. It was one of those unique moments that only happen once in a lifetime, moments in which time stands still and collective jaws hit the floor. The year was

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Grecian 2000 (and 15)

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by Petunia Winegum on January 7, 2015

One or two female friends of mine who are around the same age as me are feeling rather…erm…let’s just say, queasy at the moment; they can’t get a good night’s sleep; they can’t maintain their concentration

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Odd Men Out

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by Petunia Winegum on January 6, 2015

POSH! – ‘Loved culture, poetry’ CREEPY! – ‘Loner with blue rinse hair’ WEIRD! – ‘Strange talk, strange walk’

I was reminded of these devastating descriptions of the attributes that constitute a killer whilst

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When is a Town not a Town?

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by Petunia Winegum on January 2, 2015

Okay, so we’ve done politics, we’ve done religion and we’ve done sex – our landlady has tossed many a hot potato into the Raccoon Arms debating circle over the past few years and has left the

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Another Country

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by Petunia Winegum on December 31, 2014

Whilst some of you reading this will probably be nursing and cursing a bit of a hangover tomorrow, those amongst us who harbour a curiosity about political history tend to find the most anticipated aspect of a New Year to

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The Sunday Post: A Lost Lexicon of England

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by Petunia Winegum on December 21, 2014

Arising out of an email exchange around a couple of months ago, this first ‘collaborative piece’ between our esteemed albeit semi-retired landlady and her heir lists 100 misplaced words. They’re in no particular order and are either ones you either don’t

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London Town is Falling Down

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by Petunia Winegum on December 18, 2014

Doctor Samuel Johnson once provided a characteristically vivid description of some of the rather more…erm…slapdash construction work in London, painting a portrait of streets where ‘falling houses thunder on your head’, reflecting the fact that it was not

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Wake Me Up on May 7

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by Petunia Winegum on December 15, 2014

QUESTION: When is a government not an effective vehicle for getting things done? ANSWER: When it is locked in a fixed five-year term.

The absence of flexibility in the American Presidential system means either death or

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Criminal History

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by Petunia Winegum on December 12, 2014

Clair Tiltman was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who had a close encounter with an older man over twenty years ago, one that resulted in a conviction for that man yesterday. If you think you know where I’m

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Mother and Child Reunion

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by Petunia Winegum on December 11, 2014

A century on from the Suffragettes and almost half-a-century on from the second wave of feminism that proved so problematic for the brassiere industry, one would have imagined womanhood had progressed way beyond two archetypes that

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Credit Where Credit’s Due

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by Petunia Winegum on December 10, 2014

My name is Petunia Winegum and I’ve never had a debt in my life. One of those statements is true, and as this essay is not about nom-de-plumes, I take it you can guess which one.

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