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Month: March 2021

History

Still in business, after all these years

25th March 2021 Joe Slater 2553 Comments

I don’t know how fast you can cycle from Land’s End to Berwick. I dare say there will be a few people who have done it in two or three days, or even 24 hours. [more…]

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Going for Gold – Part 3

25th March 2021 Going Postal 2386 Comments

Britannia has a long and established presence on our nation’s coins; first appearing on coins from the Roman era.  In AD119 Emperor Hadrian introduced a number of coins that depicted a female figure who personified [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part 2

24th March 2021 Going Postal 3422 Comments

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

20th Century

A Kinder, Gentler Nazism?

24th March 2021 bobo 3607 Comments

Their neighbours in the luxury apartment block on the swanky Prinzregentenplatz in Munich knew that the couple in Flat 16 had a volatile relationship. What was less clear was the nature of that relationship. He [more…]

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Book Review: Some Fantastic Place – My Life In and Out of Squeeze by Chris Difford

23rd March 2021 Going Postal 3389 Comments

This is the story of Chris Difford, a ne’er-do-well written off as ‘backward’ at school who went on to achieve fame and fortune as the founder and lyricist of the band Squeeze. Squeeze had a [more…]

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“Not Yet”…George Will on Churchillian Realism

23rd March 2021 Going Postal 3895 Comments

On March 5th, the conservative columnist George F. Will gave the 34th Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture at the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech at Westminster College [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Eleven

22nd March 2021 El Cnutador 2673 Comments

This one goes up to eleven! Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your [more…]

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When Government Stops Intervening

22nd March 2021 Emile Woolf 2063 Comments

My recent essays have focused on the boost to economic growth that occurs quite naturally when obstacles are removed. I cited the positive economic consequences of Margaret Thatcher’s decision to allow markets, including the labour [more…]

Arts

1984 & All That

22nd March 2021 Going Postal 1929 Comments

The totalitarian novel is a relatively new genre, the most well known of these being (in no particular order) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, [more…]

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