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Month: February 2023

Economics

How to work out your interest yourself – and how the banks did it in the old days…

11th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Have you ever wondered how the bank worked out how much interest to pay on your savings account, or charge you on your mortgage? I had a mortgage with a building society some years ago, [more…]

20th Century

G1E1 – Origins of the Motown – The Beginning

10th February 2023 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

G1E1 – Origins of the Motown – The Beginning Welcome pop pickers to an ambitious series of articles covering 6 genres, each with 6 episodes. To give a bit of variation, the next episode of [more…]

Arts

Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

10th February 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 9th February 2023 The Panel: George Freeman (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Sarah Olney (LibDem) Matthew Syed (Journalist) Inaya Folarin-Oman (Broadcaster) Venue: Swindon One of the Kent Folarin-Imans, Inaya was educated privately at Tonbridge [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Four, Chapter Thirty

9th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Maya dropped Penny and Irena at a port gate and they approached one of the British soldiers at the gatehouse who asked for her papers. Both the girls presented their identical German ID cards, Irena’s [more…]

Business

The death of the middle class is the death of civil society

9th February 2023 Going Postal 0

The blame game As we know from every crisis in human history, and especially the more recent ones, the most important item on any politician’s agenda is to find someone else to blame for it. [more…]

Arts

So, Where Are You From?

8th February 2023 Going Postal 0

People research their family trees for all sorts of reasons. Where did I come from? (perfectly respectable to ask one’s self!).What sort of people were my forebears? what jobs did they do? Are there any [more…]

Arts

A Postcard From a Long Christmas Cruise, Part Four

8th February 2023 Going Postal 0

12th December – Barbados This changing the time by an hour every other day is driving my body clock mad! I woke up at 5:20 ages early. The lights of Barbados were twinkling as we [more…]

History

Elementary, my dear Watson – H Hydrogen

7th February 2023 SharpieType301 0

In the previous article, we looked at the development of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the Elements). The time has come to have a more in-depth look at the story behind some [more…]

20th Century

Somalia – Western Economic Colonialism

7th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Somalia’s recent history is also a tale of grave miscalculations made by foreigners in a very foreign land. Knowing nomads happily demonstrated their supremacy and disdain for outsiders, the so-called fruits of civilization were not [more…]

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