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Month: April 2021

Economics

Going For Gold – Part 5

15th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Previous articles in this series have focused heavily on British coins produced by the Royal Mint. I thought it would be interesting to do some articles on precious metal coins from other countries around the [more…]

Arts

Postcard From November, Part 3

14th April 2021 Going Postal 0

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…]

Engineering

Sleep Apnoea, “What a load of CPAP!”

14th April 2021 Lugosi 0

“You, you may not know this about me but years ago I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder” – William Shatner Pronounced “Sleep ap knee ah”. I remember an episode of the Sopranos from 2000 [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – April 1941

14th April 2021 well_chuffed 0

April was a very busy month 80 years ago, Libya, Greece, Iraq and East Africa were all full of action. On the 1st, just as Rommel began his attack, there was a coup d’état in [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 12

13th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

PREFACE REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM Oh dear! 12 April 2021 is the first day we’ve been let out of our cages and I’m frightened. The world outside seems a big, scary and uninteresting place – please [more…]

Authoritarianism

Return to HMP UK

13th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Kafka’s Joseph K did not know what his crime was. Dr and Prof K do. They had the audacity to travel to a foreign country for compassionate reasons. Getting to said foreign country was easy [more…]

Animals

Cnuteneering, Part Thirteen

12th April 2021 El Cnutador 0

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 memory on the project in: Part [more…]

Authoritarianism

Statist Overreach – The Curse of Big Government

12th April 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Whether it’s your local Council, blocking suburban roads with impassable barricades, feigning concern for neighbourhood tranquillity; or imposition by central government of the most intrusive behavioural prohibitions outside of war – this vile syndrome of [more…]

Arts

Four Weeks One Summer, Part Two

12th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

St Ermin’s Hotel sits exactly, to the inch, halfway between Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster. A four-star hotel and a Grade II listed late Victorian building, designed in the Queen Ann revival style, [more…]

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