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Month: January 2023

Arts

A Postcard From India; Gandhi, His Politics, The People

31st January 2023 Colin Cross 0

As I’ve said before during this series of posts, following my recent trip to The Sub Continent, India is a land of often stark contrasts. Its population (official figure) is approaching 1.5 billion people, nobody [more…]

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Happy 7th Birthday Going Postal

31st January 2023 Swiss Bob 0

It hasn’t been a great year, no change there then. Yet another event has divided people, this time Ukraine – Covid previously. I can’t say I understand the Ukraine/Russia divide, supporting either side to me [more…]

21st Century

Kenya Election Context

31st January 2023 Going Postal 0

Some more on the background context of how Kenya got to where it currently is. The presidential contest election was effectively a two-horse race between Deputy President William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga. Neither [more…]

Mathematics

Playing With Light

30th January 2023 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Science, like a sport, is an art that’s well practised. To lose educates you more than to win instantly. Okay, that’s corny but I’ve found that my project failures have taught me more information and [more…]

Emile Woolf, Going Postal
Economics

Growth is the antidote to stagnation – but it requires knowledge and leadership

30th January 2023 Emile Woolf 0

By now even Treasury officials and central banks recognise that their practice of Quantitative Easing has run its course. In its contemporary form, QE began a dozen years ago as a temporary emergency measure enacted [more…]

Business

Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Three

30th January 2023 Going Postal 0

Banking came up with its own methods of inflating the supply of legal tender-fiat money, fractional reserve lending. A bank comes to know (a version of the dispersal of knowledge of the market) how much [more…]

19th Century

The Wild West Trail, Part Nine

29th January 2023 Going Postal 0

Ninth in a series by my uncle John Alldridge. This article first appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph in January 1968 – Jerry F Nine Quarter Circle Ranch, Gallatin Gate-Way, Montana. When Howard Kelsey, boss [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Seventy-Two

29th January 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week in the fun palace that is Westminster. My, didn’t it rain last night, I don’t know how many times the rain beating on the windows woke [more…]

20th Century

Marching Clockwise Around Lake Geneva

28th January 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time we strolled through Geneva in the 1980s looking at some of my own old photos. Puffins will be relieved to hear that this week we’re back in the 1950s and travelling in my [more…]

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