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Flogging a Good Cause

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by Petunia Winegum on December 9, 2014

‘She is constantly visited by amateurs of birch discipline, being always furnished with brooms of green birch and of the best quality, and is always happy to see any friend that feels himself inclinable to spend

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Alas! Poor Jeremy

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by Petunia Winegum on December 8, 2014

The Elm House branch of the conspiracy industry may tie-in with contemporary convictions of clandestine satanic abuse rings in the highest echelons of the British establishment, but it also connects the apparently liberal 21st century society

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The Sunday Post: As Good as it Gets

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by Petunia Winegum on December 7, 2014

The standard celebrity Q&A one sees with monotonous regularity on the inside back page of the Radio Times or in your average upmarket Sunday supplement often includes the ‘highlight of your life’ question. Beyond the usual

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The Wind of Change

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by Petunia Winegum on December 5, 2014

IT’S HERE AT LAST! YOUR NEW-LOOK, NEW-IMPROVED RACCOON ARMS!

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

THE TIMES they are a changing! A long-overdue facelift is needed for this dusty old blog and now that an exciting new editor

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The Third World

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by Petunia Winegum on November 14, 2014

The month of April 1970, if remembered at all, is remembered for two landmark moments in modern cultural history that made front pages around the globe – the drama of Apollo 13’s aborted moon mission and the

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Sitting on Offence

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by Petunia Winegum on November 12, 2014

Those bereft of a vested interest would probably agree war is a pretty offensive thing. Edwin Starr certainly did. We’ve been bombarded with the centenary of the First World War’s outbreak this year and the general tone

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Alison Paula Ewing: A Life Backwards .

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by Petunia Winegum on November 3, 2014

Almost three months ago, a piece of mine appeared on here titled ‘My Aim is True’; it told the story of my relationship with a kindred spirit called Alison and

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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr COBRA?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 22, 2014

Forty years ago, in October 1974, five people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a pub in Guildford; just over a month later, twenty-one were killed in two separate explosions that ripped through

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The Poor shall Inherit the Girth.

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by Petunia Winegum on September 23, 2014

Anyone of a certain age will recall that the chocolate bar Milky Way used to be advertised as ‘The sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite’, with the emphasis on can. This

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The Right to Roam

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by Petunia Winegum on September 9, 2014

What would you say the main differences were between your average British street today and its equivalent of 30-40-50 years ago? Well, there’s probably more traffic on the roads, that’s a fair bet; and the air’s

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Littler Britain or Scottish Blood, English Heart

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by Petunia Winegum on September 3, 2014

As you’re no doubt aware, just over two weeks from now the people who make up one-quarter of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom will vote to decide whether or not they want to end a

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Sunday Bloody Sunday and the Lost Art of Boredom

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by Petunia Winegum on August 31, 2014

‘Sunday Bloody Sunday really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday. You wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you’ve got to mow

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Educating Auntie.

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by Petunia Winegum on August 20, 2014

I have in front of me a copy of the Radio Times, dated 31 August-6 September 1974 – yes, almost exactly forty years ago. The front cover is a mock-up of a police photo-fit image featuring the

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My Aim is True.

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by Petunia Winegum on August 10, 2014

In March this year I was being served at my local Sainsbury’s and was reluctantly drawn into conversation by the woman behind the counter; she revealed she lived on the same street I used to live on

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Requiem for the Male Peacock.

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by Petunia Winegum on July 30, 2014

Watching ‘Rebels of Oz’, Howard Jacobson’s BBC4 profile of four artistic Aussies who made a sizeable contribution to the cultural renaissance of the 60s and 70s, archive film of the late art critic Robert Hughes in velvet

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Slip Sliding Away.

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by Petunia Winegum on June 29, 2014

Two years ago, my grandfather died just a few months after his 90th birthday. Born in 1922, he belonged to ‘the wartime generation’, doing his bit for King and Country in London during the

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