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Month: February 2019

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The Truth About Central Banks

19th February 2019 Patrick Barron 4447 Comments

Most of the world takes it for granted that central banks are necessary for the smooth conduct of trade, both foreign and domestic. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s be clear. Central banks [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 9

17th February 2019 Tachybaptus 4216 Comments

June 25th, 1809. We are returned to London. Our journey from Portsmouth was necessarily a slow one, as no stagecoach driver will countenance adding eight bears to his passengers. In any case, Fred deemed it [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1973

15th February 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3936 Comments

Featured song:  10cc – Rubber Bullets This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]

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Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

15th February 2019 Roger Ackroyd 4275 Comments

Question Time 14th February 2019 Venue: Aylesbury Aylesbury: voted 50.5% to Leave. Panel: Jacob Rees Mogg (Leaver) Lisa Nandy (Remainer) Grace Blakeley (Marxist Leaver) Geoff Norcutt (Comedian. Leaver) Jimmy Wales (Remainer. Wikipedia co-founder) For the [more…]

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Going Postal with Question Time

14th February 2019 Going Postal 2572 Comments

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Aylesbury. Set your Disqus comments to ‘newest’. Do not post music videos during QT.  

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Joe Malone, Part Four

12th February 2019 Going Postal 2187 Comments

An attractive blonde had surprised Private Eye Joe Malone as he was resting his hangover. She was standing in his Investigator’s office. Surveying him and her surroundings. Not quite sure if this oddly antique office [more…]

20th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2302 Comments

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 8

10th February 2019 Tachybaptus 2080 Comments

May 20th, 1809. We are at sea again – on a merchant ship, Pride of Scunthorpe, under the command of Jonas Swigger, a jovial captain who was more than happy to take us bears and [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 5

9th February 2019 Always Worth Saying 3039 Comments

We are on our way to France as a family group. We are travelling first class and the serotonin is high. I’m a ‘look out of the window’ kind of person and, as we travel [more…]

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